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- Book Title
- Utopia/Dystopia : Conditions of Historical Possibility
- Publication Name
- Utopia/Dystopia
- Title
- Utopia/Dystopia
- EAN
- 9780691146980
- ISBN
- 9780691146980
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Release Year
- 2010
- Release Date
- 12/09/2010
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Length
- 9.9 in
- Item Weight
- 14 Oz
- Contributor
- Gyan Prakash (Edited by)
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- Conditions of Historical Possibility
- ISBN-10
- 0691146985
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Genre
- History, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Essays, Sociology / Urban, Utopias
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. Utopia/Dystopia offers a fresh approach to these ideas. Rather than locate utopias in grandiose programs of future totality, the book treats these concepts as historically grounded categories and examines how individuals and groups throughout time have interpreted utopian visions in their daily present, with an eye toward the future. From colonial and postcolonial Africa to pre-Marxist and Stalinist Eastern Europe, from the social life of fossil fuels to dreams of nuclear power, and from everyday politics in contemporary India to imagined architectures of postwar Britain, this interdisciplinary collection provides new understandings of the utopian/dystopian experience. The essays look at such issues as imaginary utopian perspectives leading to the 1856-57 Xhosa Cattle Killing in South Africa, the functioning racist utopia behind the Rhodesian independence movement, the utopia of the peaceful atom and its global dissemination in the mid-1950s, the possibilities for an everyday utopia in modern cities, and how the Stalinist purges of the 1930s served as an extension of the utopian/dystopian relationship. The contributors are Dipesh Chakrabarty, Igal Halfin, Fredric Jameson, John Krige, Timothy Mitchell, Aditya Nigam, David Pinder, Marci Shore, Jennifer Wenzel, and Luise White.
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691146985
ISBN-13
9780691146980
eBay Product ID (ePID)
79843661
Product Key Features
Book Title
Utopia/Dystopia : Conditions of Historical Possibility
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Essays, Sociology / Urban, Utopias
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Genre
History, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.9 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Item Weight
14 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
Lc Classification Number
Hx806.U777 2010
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[The authors'] project is a necessary and timely one and some of the chapters are excellent and add a great deal to our understanding of non-western utopianism. . . . Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility is an essential collection for academics and post-graduate students interested in utopia and dystopia today., "[T]his book not only shows different concepts of utopia and dystopia but also presents an illuminating overview of some historical facts." --Katarzyna Lesniewska, European Spatial Research Policy, "[The authors'] project is a necessary and timely one and some of the chapters are excellent and add a great deal to our understanding of non-western utopianism. . . . Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility is an essential collection for academics and post-graduate students interested in utopia and dystopia today."-- Mark Featherstone, British Journal of Sociology, "[The authors'] project is a necessary and timely one and some of the chapters are excellent and add a great deal to our understanding of non-western utopianism. . . . Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility is an essential collection for academics and post-graduate students interested in utopia and dystopia today." --Mark Featherstone, British Journal of Sociology, "The editors' goal in this impressive anthology is 'to open the question', to keep thinking anew, to be open to cerebrating about where we go now with the ideas of utopia and dystopia. This book is a big and helpful step in this inquiry." --Joseph C. Bertolini, European Legacy, "In moving away from more traditional conceptions of utopia and analyzing utopian and dystopian impulses in unusual and rewarding contexts, this book breaks new ground. There are books about utopian movements, utopianism, and utopian impulses, but none match this book's diversity and breadth of coverage." --David Frisby, London School of Economics and Political Science, "[T]his book not only shows different concepts of utopia and dystopia but also presents an illuminating overview of some historical facts."-- Katarzyna Lesniewska, European Spatial Research Policy, [T]his book not only shows different concepts of utopia and dystopia but also presents an illuminating overview of some historical facts., "The novelty of this collection lies in its approach to utopianism, not as the pursuit of ideal imaginary states to be realized in the future, but as impulses propelling people to reimagine the historical present. The contributors offer informative, critical, and significant essays tied together by a coherent theme. The book makes a novel contribution to the study of contemporary global history." --Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University, [The authors'] project is a necessary and timely one and some of the chapters are excellent and add a great deal to our understanding of non-western utopianism. . . . Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility is an essential collection for academics and post-graduate students interested in utopia and dystopia today. -- Mark Featherstone, British Journal of Sociology
Copyright Date
2011
Lccn
2010-010267
Dewey Decimal
335/.02
Dewey Edition
22
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