Utopian imaginings : saving the future in the present / edited by Victoria W. Wolcott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wolcott, Victoria W., editor.

Series:

SUNY series, humanities to the rescue.

SUNY series, humanities to the rescue

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Utopias.

Future, The.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Challenges readers to use utopian thinking and practice to counter the conditions of the present and create an alternative future"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438497501

1438497504

OCLC:

1427664379

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access