{"product_id":"the-dictionary-of-alternatives-utopianism-and-organization-9781842773338","title":"The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'There is no alternative to free market liberalism and managerialism', is the orthodoxy of the twenty-first century. All too often, ordinary people across the world are being told that the problem of organization is already solved, or that it is being solved somewhere else, or that it need not concern them because they have no choices. This dictionary provides those who disagree with the evidence.  Using hundreds of entries and cross-references, it proves that there are many alternatives to the way that we currently organize ourselves. These alternatives could be expressed as fictional utopias, they could be excavated from the past, or they could be described in terms of the contemporary politics of anti-corporate protest, environmentalism, feminism and localism.  Part reference work, part source book, and part polemic, this dictionary provides a rich understanding of the ways in which fiction, history and today's politics provide different ways of thinking about how we can and should organize for the coming century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Great fun...Here's your toolbox for hammering out a new vision.' Amory Starr, author of Naming the Enemy and Global Revolt  'The Dictionary of Alternatives reveals a splendidly rich and dazzling array of other possibilities, other dreams, other truths and other worlds.  At a time when so much intellectual discourse is slavishly conformist, this book dares to be different.' Christopher Grey, University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  A-Z of Utopian Thought - Over 300 detailed entries, from the familiar to the esoteric.  For example:  Fictional Utopias  The Republic  Gulliver's Travels  News from Nowhere  Island  Social Experiments  America  Bourneville  Cuba  The Paris Commune  Porto Alegre  Soviet Union  Wikipedia  Social Movements  The Black Panthers  Communism  Deep Ecology  Fair Trade  Levellers  New Model Army  Romanticism  Situtationist  Via Campesina  The World Social Forum  Zapatistas  Thinkers  Bakunin  Castro  Marx  Gandhi  Guevara  Illich  Nozick  Friere  Rawls  Further Reading","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53191397769559,"sku":"9781842773338","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-dictionary-of-alternatives-utopianism-and-organization-9781842773338","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}