Microutopias and Everyday Hope

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvAsbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad,Lene M. Johannessen

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In eleven essays of scholarly inquiry encompassing a variety of disciplinary perspectives including literature, visual culture, and media studies, Microutopias and Everyday Hope illuminates the potential for alternative futures that resides in utopian thinking on smaller scales.Reflecting on analyses of source material that ranges from entertainment media to concrete sites, contributors draw our attention to the important aesthetic details of everyday life that are increasingly drowned out in a landscape dominated by continuous polycrisis. Caught in late capitalism’s relentless and dystopian march, they argue, any kind of future is necessarily predicated on utopian thinking in the present and must look beyond the spectacle of horror to draw on the hope that can be found in the smaller wins day to day.Ultimately, this collection serves as an appeal to the crucial role the humanities can play in withstanding and moving past the contemporary societal fragmentation plaguing the globe.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-03-19
Mått148 x 232 x 18 mm
Vikt480 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor232
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666980516

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Acknowledgments 1. Microutopias and Everyday HopeAsbjørn Grønstad (University of Bergen, Norway) and Lene Johannessen (University of Bergen, Norway) 2. Unrest and the Light of Utopia: Anarchism and ArchaeologyHenrik Gustafsson (Arctic University of Norway, Norway)3. "Don't you tempt me with perfection": Music, Death, and UtopiaZoltan Varga (Western Norway University, Norway) 4. Transnational Figurations of (Micro)utopia in C. N. Adichie's Americanah and K. Waclawiak's How to Get Into the Twin PalmsTijana Przulj (University of Bergen, Norway)5. How to Imagine MicroutopiasAnders Lysne (University of Bergen, Norway) 6. Micro-Ecotopic Power Lines in Fantasy LiteratureBirger Solheim (University of Bergen, Norway) 7. Microutopian EthicsAsbjørn Grønstad8. Brilliant Stacks of Cans: The Microutopian Impulse in White NoiseØyvind Vågnes (University of Bergen, Norway)9. A Working-Class Return to (Micro-)Utopia? Presentism, Bodies, and Nostalgia in Miranda July's KajillionaireHenriette Rørdal (University of Bergen, Norway)10. The Politics of Everyday Life: Orwell and the DispossessedRandi Koppen (University of Bergen, Norway)11. Everyday Utopias: Compasses of HopeLene Johannessen12. The Possibility of an Island: The White Lotus as Utopian HeterotopiaJanne Stigen Drangsholt (University of Stavanger, Norway)About the ContributorsIndex

Uncovering the utopian impulse in diverse cultural works, this elegant book attends to the many subtle, transient, dispersed moments of social hope, desire, and change. Developing the concept of microutopias through an analysis of films, literature, music and more, this book not only reveals the presence and importance of microutopianism within social life, but demonstrates what microutopianism offers as an analytical method. An original and vibrant contribution to utopian studies.