Sargisson Fool's Gold?

Utopianism in the Twenty-First Century
2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-03107-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 301 Seiten, eBook

What's wrong with the world today and how might it become better (or worse)? These are the questions pursued in this book, which explores the hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares of the 21st century. Through architecture, fiction, theory, film and experiments with everyday life, Sargisson explores contemporary hopes and fears about the future.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sargisson, L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures Prologue Acknowledgements Introduction: Fool's Gold Definitions, Debates and Conflicts: Utopianism, Anti-utopianism and Anti-Anti-Utopianism Religious Fundamentalism Feminism and Gender Sex and Sexual Identity Climate Change and Catastrophe Fiction Human Attitudes to Nature Green Intentional Communities Fantastic Architecture and the Case of Dubai Domestic Architecture: New Urbanism and Cohousing Computer Gaming Cloning, Cyborgs and Robots Conclusions Notes Appendix: Dubai Strategic Plan 2015 : Aims and Guiding Principles List of Primary Sources Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

LUCY SARGISSON is Associate Professor in Politics at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK. This is her fourth book; she is also the author of Contemporary Feminist Utopianism (1996), Utopian Bodies and the Politics of Transgression (2000) and Living in Utopia: New Zealand's Intentional Communities (with Sargent, 2004).