More’s <i>Utopia</i>, Callenbach’s <i>Ecotopia</i>, and Biosphere 2

McCutcheon, Elizabeth

doi:10.3366/more.2015.52.3-4.12

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“…The climate crisis we are at the moment living in could create a need for new counter-images of a better, more ecologically stable society that could facilitate the masses moving towards a better future. There is, of course, a long tradition of eco-utopianism in the form of both utopian literature (see for example Callenbach 1990, McCutcheon 2015 and utopian practice (see for example Liftin 2014, Hong & Vicdan 2016, but so far these kinds of utopias have not facilitated large scale social transformation.…”

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Disruptive Utopianism: Opening the Present

Lakkala¹

2020

The Revival of Political Imagination

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Disruptive Utopianism: Opening the Present

Lakkala¹

2020

The Revival of Political Imagination

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Constructing Ecotopian Space as a Protest Against the Urban Worldview in Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhyay’s Literary Oeuvre

Mukherjee

2024

Asia in Transition

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Ernest Callenbach defined an ecotopian space as an ecologically perfect area or form of imaginary society, a place of refuge from the hustle and bustle of modern metropolitan life. The concept of an ecotopia serves as an appeal to avoid acts of violent aggression that are damaging to the environment and calls for a shift in cultural norms to address the present ecological catastrophe. In Bengali writer Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhyay’s (1894–1950) literary oeuvre, nature becomes a site of dwelling, a sacred locus bearing witness to the hardships of human existence in the construction of ruthless transformation. This chapter examines the complex relationship between the sacred, natural, and cultural realms in his fiction. This chapter considers how the author employed the natural world as a medium to voice his resistance strategy to the rapid growth of urbanization. This chapter explores how Bandyopadhyay purposefully emphasized the environmental thought to coalesce around the importance of conserving forests, wildlife, and flora in an era, particularly when globalization has “given rise to the threat of global warming and mass extinction” (Chakrabarty, 2021, p. 7). Works to be considered include some of Bandyopadhyay’s most prominent nature narratives, such as Pather Panchali (1929), Aparajito (1932), Aranyak (1932), and Ichhamati (1950).

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“Eco-polis”: Environmental Sustainability in Ecotopian Cities

Meinhold¹,

Stasi²

2021

ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

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More’s Utopia, Callenbach’s Ecotopia, and Biosphere 2

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Disruptive Utopianism: Opening the Present

Disruptive Utopianism: Opening the Present

Constructing Ecotopian Space as a Protest Against the Urban Worldview in Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhyay’s Literary Oeuvre

“Eco-polis”: Environmental Sustainability in Ecotopian Cities

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