DIY utopia : cultural imagination and the remaking of the possible / edited by Amber Day.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Day, Amber, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Utopian socialism.

Consumption (Economics).

Do-it-yourself work.

Physical Description:

xix, 270 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2017]

Contents:

Introduction : creative play and collective imagination / Amber Day

Opening up utopia / Stephen Duncombe

Imagination and a useless map / Catherine D'Ignazio

Implausible futures for unpopular places / Rob Walker

Repair events and the fixer movements : fixing the world one repair at a time / Lorenzo Giannini

Our knowledge is our market : consuming the diy world / Jeremy Hunsinger

DIY radio utopia : what is so funny about the tragedy of the commons / Linda Doyle and Jessica Foley

Remaking street corners as "bureaux" : DIY youth spaces and shifting urban ontologies in Guinea / Clovis Bergère

Whose city? : art and public space in Providence / Martha Kuhlman

Livestream production and livestream community in the Black lives matter movement / Chenjerai Kumanyika

Making do and mending

domestic television in the age of austerity : Kirstie Allsopp's Kirstie's homemade home / Deborah Philips

Everyday utopias, technological dystopias, and the failed occupation of the global modern : Dwell magazine meets unhappy hipsters / Joan Faber McAlister and Giorgia Aiello

Change your underwear, change the world : entrepreneurial activism and the fate of utopias in an era of ethical capital / Lisa Daily.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781498523882

1498523889

OCLC:

958797170