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Prefiguring Utopia

The Auroville Experiment

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvSuryamayi Aswini Clarence-Smith,Suryamayi (Sri Aurobindo Institute of International Educational Research) Aswini Clarence-Smith

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Auroville in Tamil Nadu, South India, is an internationally recognized endeavour in prefiguring an alternative society: the largest, most diverse, dynamic and enduring of intentional communities worldwide. This book is a critical and insightful analysis of the utopian practice of this unique spiritual township, by a native scholar. The author explores how Auroville’s founding spiritual and societal ideals are engaged in its communal political and economic organization, as well as various cultural practices and what enables and sustains this prefiguratively utopian practice. This in-depth, autoethnographic case study is an important resource for understanding prefigurative and utopian experiments – their challenges, potentialities and significance for the advancement of human society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-09-21
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt456 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAlternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century
Antal sidor202
FörlagBristol University Press
ISBN9781529230789

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Foreword - Bem Le Hunte1. All Life is Yoga: An IntroductionPart 1: Culture2. Auroville Is …3. A Spiritually Prefigurative Culture: The Uniqueness of Auroville’s Utopian PracticePart 2: Polis4. Divine Anarchy? The Development of the Auroville Polity5. Spiritually Prefigurative Politics in Practice: An Embodied Account of an Auroville Community Decision-Making ProcessPart 3: Economy6. 'No Exchange of Money'? The Development of Auroville’s Communal Economy7. The Institutional Potential of Prefigurative Experiments: The Evolution of Collective Accounts in Auroville8. Auroville and Beyond: The Grounded Hopes and Horizons of Spiritually Prefigurative Practice – A ConclusionAfterword - Ana Cecilia Dinerstein