Utopian Imaginings

Saving the Future in the Present

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Challenges readers to use utopian thinking and practice to counter the conditions of the present and create an alternative future."Sometimes that's all it takes to save a world, you see. A new vision. A new way of thinking, appearing at just the right time." These words were spoken by a fictional character in N. K. Jemisin's 2019 utopian novella Emergency Skin. But the idea of saving the world through utopian imaginings has a deep and profound history. At this moment of rupture-with the related crises of the pandemic, racial uprisings, and climate change converging-Utopian Imaginings revisits this history to show how utopian thought and practice offer alternative paths to the future. The third book in the Humanities to the Rescue series, the volume examines both lived and imagined utopian communities from an interdisciplinary perspective. While attentive to the troubled and troubling elements of different spaces and collectives, Utopian Imaginings remains premised in hope, culminating in a series of inspiring exemplars of the utopian potential of the college classroom today.This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support of the Humanities Institute at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. It can also be found in the SUNY Open Access Repository.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-04-01
Mått152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt386 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series, Humanities to the Rescue
Antal sidor282
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438497495

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionVictoria W. WolcottPart I: Toward a Utopian History 1. From "Surcharged Sympathy" to a "Cold Current of Neglect": The Rev. Thomas James, Abolitionism, and Black Expectations for a Racial Utopia in Reconstruction AmericaFrancis J. Butler and Jennifer Hull Dorsey2. Black Cooperators: Owenism and Utopia in Black AmericaVictoria W. Wolcott3. "The Women Activists Found Little Peace at Bucolic School": Utopian Dreams, Radical Feminist Nightmares, and the Pedagogical Potential of SagarisKatelyn M. CampbellPart II: Toward a Utopian Method 4. Utopian Imaginings: Migration as the Pursuit of the Utopian SocietySecil E. Ertorer5. Public Ritual and Utopia: How Torn Space Theater's Creative Placemaking Strategies Activate the Public RealmDan ShanahanPart III: Toward a Troubled Utopia 6. Repossessing Utopia from Below: Black/Feminist/Queer Utopianism in American Political ThoughtAlix Olson and Alex Zamalin7. "If you don't love children, you don't understand socialism": The Children of Peoples TempleAlexandra Leah Prince8. Kabbalah, Sex Magic, and the Trans-Utopia: Powerful Genderings and Sexualities in the Zohar and Moshe Cordovero's WritingsMarla SegolPart IV: Toward a Utopian Pedagogy 9. Migrantopias: Teaching the Dystopian/Utopian Narratives of Migration through a Pedagogy of HopeRichard Reitsma10. The Classroom as a Community of Learning: Confronting Utopia by Teaching DystopiaAnita C. Butera11. The Impossible Project: A Utopian Pedagogy for a Dystopian MomentDalia Antonia Caraballo MullerContributorsIndex