Gordin / Tilley / Prakash Utopia/Dystopia

Conditions of Historical Possibility
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Gordin, Michael D.

Tilley, Helen

Prakash, Gyan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Utopia and Dystopia beyond Space and Time 1

PART ONE: ANIMA

CHAPTER 1: Fredric Jameson

Utopia as Method, or the Uses of the Future 21

CHAPTER 2: Jennifer Wenzel

Literacy and Futurity: Millennial Dreaming on the Nineteenth- Century Southern African Frontier 45

CHAPTER 3: Dipesh Chakrabarty

Bourgeois Categories Made Global: The Utopian and Actual Lives of Historical Documents in India 73

CHAPTER 4: Luise White

The Utopia of Working Phones: Rhodesian Independence and the Place of Race in Decolonization 94

CHAPTER 5: Timothy Mitchell

Hydrocarbon Utopia 117

PART TWO: ARTIFICE

CHAPTER 6: John Krige

Techno- Utopian Dreams, Techno- Political Realities: The Education of Desire for the Peaceful Atom 151

CHAPTER 7: Marci Shore

On Cosmopolitanism, the Avant- Garde, and a Lost Innocence of Central Europe 176

CHAPTER 8: David Pinder

The Breath of the Possible: Everyday Utopianism and the Street in Modernist Urbanism 203

CHAPTER 9: Igal Halfin

Stalinist Confessions in an Age of Terror: Messianic Times at the Leningrad Communist Universities 231

CHAPTER 10: Aditya Nigam

The Heterotopias of Dalit Politics: Becoming- Subject and the Consumption Utopia 250

List of Contributors 277

Index 281

Über Autor(innen)

Michael D. Gordin is associate professor of history at Princeton University. Helen Tilley teaches history at Birkbeck College, University of London. Gyan Prakash is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Prince- ton University.