Utopian Encounters

Anthropologies of Empirical Utopias

210 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This volume is an experiment: an enquiry into the possibilities and potentialities of a prospective anthropology of utopia. With different ethnographic contributions studying «empirical utopias» across the world (from ecotopias to religious havens, transnational policies, retirement homes and community agriculture), it looks beyond the commonsense understanding of utopia as a desire, an expectation, a form of imagination stemming from Western political thought. In the process, the volume explores the dynamic dialectic between human imagination and concrete action.

• Reihe: Ralahine Utopian Studies
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Soziologie Sozialtheorie
• ISBN: 9781787072473
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.10.2018
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
• Band herausgegeben von: Maïté Maskens, Ruy Blanes