The eternal present of Utopianism

Reis, José Eduardo

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“…In the second part of this article, I offered just one, broadly alternative mode for exploring this relationship, focusing upon hope. Through a series of focus group quotations, I argued that young people's reflections upon their interactions with the world -encapsulated by their definitions of self-esteem -could be aligned with recent theoretical understandings of hope (Reis 2001;Anderson 2006a). Rather than repeat the substance of those quotations, I want to finish this article by suggesting five (of many) implications of my analysis for rethinking utopian intention.…”

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“…Gemma, on the other hand, replays a common motif of utopian studies: the euphoric moment of "escape" from everyday life (Reis 2001;Anderson 2006aAnderson , 2006b). Gemma does not simply reinforce contemporary British government policies about exercise and obesity, but instead chooses to re-orient her learning about human physiology -whether or not completely accurate -to assert the validity of her kind of momentary, hopeful escape.…”

Section: Popular and Policy Conceptions Of Childhood And Hope In Contmentioning

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Utopia, Childhood and Intention

Kraftl¹

2009

Journal for Cultural Research

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Section: Popular and Policy Conceptions Of Childhood And Hope In Contmentioning

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Utopia, Childhood and Intention

Kraftl¹

2009

Journal for Cultural Research

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Doom or Salvation? Utopian Beliefs in Contemporary Development Discourses and Environmentalism

Linkenbach¹

2009

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In the first part of this article I argue that utopian (as well as dystopian) ideas are vital for contemporary global discourses on development and for environmentalism. The utopian element of these discourses-which include mainstream and alternative ones-is deeply rooted in European philosophical, literary and socio-critical traditions, but in its ecotopian form also relates to non-western spiritual and moral thoughts. In the second part I concentrate on the 'environmentalism of the poor' , predominant in Third World countries and fundamentally related to livelihood struggles and local ideas of social advancement. I argue that such grass root forms of environmentalism are less involved in imagining a global ecotopia but have become appropriated, interpreted and represented by intellectual elites, media and globally operating activists subsuming them into their own ecotopian imaginaries.

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Blake's <i>Jerusalem</i> as Perennial Utopia

Ferrara¹

2011

Utopian Studies

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The eternal present of Utopianism

Cited by 4 publications

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Utopia, Childhood and Intention

Utopia, Childhood and Intention

Doom or Salvation? Utopian Beliefs in Contemporary Development Discourses and Environmentalism

Blake's <i>Jerusalem</i> as Perennial Utopia

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