Utopian Imaginings Saving the Future in the Present

Challenges readers to use utopian thinking and practice to counter the conditions of the present and create an alternative future.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wolcott, Victoria V. (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press 2024.
Edition:1st ed
Series:SUNY Series, Humanities to the Rescue Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Toward a Utopian History
  • Chapter 1. From "Surcharged Sympathy" to a "Cold Current of Neglect": The Rev. Thomas James, Abolitionism, and Black Expectations for a Racial Utopia in Reconstruction America
  • Chapter 2. Black Cooperators: Owenism and Utopia in Black America
  • Chapter 3. "The Women Activists Found Little Peace at Bucolic School": Utopian Dreams, Radical Feminist Nightmares, and the Pedagogical Potential of Sagaris
  • Part 2: Toward a Utopian Method
  • Chapter 4. Utopian Imaginings: Migration as the Pursuit of the Utopian Society
  • Chapter 5. Public Ritual and Utopia: How Torn Space Theater's Creative Placemaking Strategies Activate the Public Realm
  • Part 3: Toward a Troubled Utopia
  • Chapter 6. Repossessing Utopia from Below: Black/Feminist/Queer Utopianismin American Political Thought
  • Chapter 7. "If you don't love children, you don't underst and socialism": The Children of Peoples Temple
  • Chapter 8. Kabbalah, Sex Magic, and the Trans-Utopia: Powerful Genderings and Sexualities in the Zohar and Moshe Cordovero's Writings
  • Part 4: Toward a Utopian Pedagogy
  • Chapter 9. Migrantopias: Teaching the Dystopian/Utopian Narratives of Migration through a Pedagogy of Hope
  • Chapter 10. The Classroom as a Community of Learning: Confronting Utopiaby Teaching Dystopia
  • Chapter 11. The Impossible Project: A Utopian Pedagogy for a Dystopian Moment
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Back Cover.