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  1. In and Against Eco-Apocalypse: On the Terrestrial Ecotopianism of Radical Environmental Activists.Heather Alberro - 2021 - Utopian Studies 32 (1):36-55.
    ABSTRACT This article draws on utopian and posthumanist theory in order to critically assess the contemporary resurgence of green utopianism in the form of contemporary radical environmental activists mobilizing against the socioecological perturbations of the Anthropocene. Featuring empirical data in the form of twenty-six semi-structured interviews with REAs from groups such as Earth First! and Sea Shepherd, the article critically examines the singular modality of ecotopianism exhibited by REAs, and explores the degree to which their post-anthropocentric worldviews—and crucially the widespread (...)
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  • Movement as utopia.Philippe Couton & José Julián López - 2009 - History of the Human Sciences 22 (4):93-121.
    Opposition to utopianism on ontological and political grounds has seemingly relegated it to a potentially dangerous form of antiquated idealism. This conclusion is based on a restrictive view of utopia as excessively ordered panoptic discursive constructions. This overlooks the fact that, from its inception, movement has been central to the utopian tradition. The power of utopianism indeed resides in its ability to instantiate the tension between movement and place that has marked social transformations in the modern era. This tension continues (...)
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  • On the role of utopia in social thought and social sciences.Piotr Żuk - 2020 - History of European Ideas 46 (8):1047-1058.
    ABSTRACT How can we understand the term ‘utopia’ and does the adjective ‘utopian’ discredit the social thought to which it refers? The author discusses the role of utopia in the emergence of social sciences and alludes to Immanuel Wallerstein and his analysis of utopistics. He also defends the hypothesis that in the times of political, economic and ecological crisis which is sweeping through Europe and the world in the first decades of the twenty-first century, utopian thinking may be reborn not (...)
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  • Multiplanetary Imaginaries and Utopia: The Case of Mars One.Richard Tutton - 2018 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 43 (3):518-539.
    The prospect of human societies being made anew on other planets is a powerful recurring theme in popular culture and speculative technoscience. I explore what Science and Technology Studies offers to analyzing how the future is made and contested in present-day endeavors to establish humans as multiplanetary subjects. I focus on the case of Mars One—an initiative that aims to establish a human settlement on Mars in the 2020s—and discuss interviews undertaken with some of the individuals who have volunteered to (...)
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  • Socio-economic Utopianism in Spain at the End of the Nineteenth Century: La Nueva Utopía by Ricardo Mella.José Luis Ramos-Gorostiza - 2009 - Utopian Studies 20 (1):5 - 39.
    In 1890, Ricardo Mella—one of the foremost theorists of Spanish anarchism—published the short novel La Nueva Utopía [The New Utopia], which had been awarded a prize in Barcelona's Second Socialist Contest the previous year. It was a time of resurgence for the utopian novel in the western world with numerous proposals for different models of socialism. In particular, there were three works in quick succession which were well received and eventually became classics: Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888), Hertzka's Freiland (1889), and (...)
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  • Dystopian Reality, Utopian Thought and Educational Practice.Marianna Papastephanou - 2008 - Studies in Philosophy and Education 27 (2):89-102.
    The significance of utopian thought for education can be made evident through reconceptualizing utopia and approaching it alongside the notion of dystopia. Awareness of dystopian elements of reality radicalizes the kind of critique that assists utopian thought and makes engagement with it more pressing. Awareness of the lurking danger of future dystopia goes hand in hand with a utopia that is cautious and vigilant of its own possible turn into catastrophe. If education is not just an institution of the unreflective (...)
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  • A visit to Biotopia: genre, genetics and gardening in the early twentieth century.Jim Endersby - 2018 - British Journal for the History of Science 51 (3):423-455.
    The early decades of the twentieth century were marked by widespread optimism about biology and its ability to improve the world. A major catalyst for this enthusiasm was new theories about inheritance and evolution. In Britain and the USA particularly, an astonishingly diverse variety of writers took up the task of interpreting these new biological ideas, using a wide range of genres to help their fellow citizens make sense of biology's promise. From these miscellaneous writings a new and distinctive kind (...)
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  • Utopia and Its Contributions to the Contemporary Studies of Gender.Ana Maskalan - 2009 - Filozofska Istrazivanja 29 (3):505-524.