{"product_id":"utopiadystopia-conditions-of-historical-possibility-9780691146980","title":"UtopiaDystopia  Conditions of Historical","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. This title offers a fresh approach to these ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[The authors'] project is a necessary and timely one and some of the chapters are excellent and add a great deal to our understanding of non-western utopianism... Utopia\/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility is an essential collection for academics and post-graduate students interested in utopia and dystopia today.\"--Mark Featherstone, British Journal of Sociology \"[T]his book not only shows different concepts of utopia and dystopia but also presents an illuminating overview of some historical facts.\"--Katarzyna Lesniewska, European Spatial Research Policy \"The editors' goal in this impressive anthology is 'to open the question', to keep thinking anew, to be open to cerebrating about where we go now with the ideas of utopia and dystopia. This book is a big and helpful step in this inquiry.\"--Joseph C. Bertolini, European Legacy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: 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African Frontier 45  CHAPTER 3: Dipesh Chakrabarty  Bourgeois Categories Made Global: The Utopian and Actual Lives of Historical Documents in India 73  CHAPTER 4: Luise White  The Utopia of Working Phones: Rhodesian Independence and the Place of Race in Decolonization 94  CHAPTER 5: Timothy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","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403777417559,"sku":"9780691146980","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691146980.jpg?v=1730484514","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/utopiadystopia-conditions-of-historical-possibility-9780691146980","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}