Globalization and Utopia: Critical Essays

✍ Scribed by Patrick Hayden, Chamsy El-Ojeili

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 288
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Taking aim at the belief in utopia's demise, this collection of original essays offers a new look at the vibrant renewal of utopianism emerging in response to the challenges of globalization. It consider questions of hope and transformation associated with the utopian desire for social change.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 9
Introduction: Reflections on the Demise and Renewal of Utopia in a Global Age......Page 14
Part I: Globalization and Utopianism: Theoretical Connections......Page 24
1 Placing Utopia: Some Classical Images......Page 26
2 ‘Globalization’ as Collective Representation: The New Dream of a Cosmopolitan Civil Sphere......Page 41
3 Two Post-Marxisms: Beyond Post-Socialism?......Page 53
4 Globalization, Reflexive Utopianism, and the Cosmopolitan Social Imaginary......Page 64
5 After Utopia: Notes on an Ethics of Newness......Page 81
6 Postsecularism: A New Global Debate......Page 95
Part II: Critical Perspectives on Utopian Visions in a Global Age......Page 112
7 After 1989: Globalization, Normalization, and Utopia......Page 114
8 Made in America: The Unsustainable All-Consuming Global Free-Market ‘Utopia’......Page 130
9 Islamutopia, (Post)Modernity and the Multitude......Page 150
10 Utopias Without Transcendence? Post-Left Anarchy, Immediacy and Utopian Energy......Page 169
11 Libertarian Cyber-Utopianism and Global Digital Networks......Page 189
12 (Con)Temporary Utopian Spaces......Page 203
13 Glocalization and the New Local Transnationalisms: Real Utopias in Liminal Spaces......Page 220
14 The Grandchildren of Marx and Coca-Cola: Lefebvre, Utopia and the ‘Recuperation’ of Everyday Life......Page 233
Concluding Reflections......Page 250
Bibliography......Page 256
C......Page 282
F......Page 283
I......Page 284
M......Page 285
R......Page 286
T......Page 287
Z......Page 288