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Living in Utopia

New Zealand’s Intentional Communities

By: Lucy Sargisson,Lyman Tower Sargent

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Living in Utopia

New Zealand’s Intentional Communities

By: Lucy Sargisson,Lyman Tower Sargent

Utopia is, literally, the good place that is no place. Utopias reveal people's dreams and desires and they may gesture towards different and better ways of being. But they are rarely considered as physical, observable phenomena. In this book Sargisson and Sargent, both established writers on utopian theory, turn their attention to real-life utopian communities. The book is based on their fieldwork and extensive archival research in New Zealand, a country with a special place in the history of utopianism. A land of opportunity for settlers with dreams of a better life, New Zealand has, per capita, more intentional communities - groups of people who have chosen to live and sometimes work together for a common purpose - than any country in the world. Sargisson and Sargent draw on the experiences of more than fifty such communities, to offer the first academic survey of this form of living utopian experiment. In telling the story of the New Zealand experience, Living in Utopia provides both transferable lessons in community, cooperation and social change and a unique insight into the utopianism at the heart of politics, society, and everyday life.

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1351921762

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Utopian Bodies and the Politics of Transgression

By: Lucy Sargisson

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Utopian Bodies and the Politics of Transgression

By: Lucy Sargisson

What do we want? What do we believe to be wrong with the world? How can we best change it? How should we live? Given the world as it is, how can we best achieve our dreams and desires? Utopian Bodies is, quite simply, a new approach to thinking about theory. Using the dominant themes of green and feminist politics, this fascinating and original text creates a new notion of utopian thought and life - "transgressive utopianism". This new concept is not a blueprint for an ideal polity; instead it demonstrates an approach to the world that is both idealistic and pragmatic, focussing on bodies of thought in relation to bodies of people: communities. Also spanning philosophy, political theory and deconstruction, this book is especially relevant today as the millennium marks a time of resurgence in utopian studies

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1134610505

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Contemporary Feminist Utopianism

By: Lucy Sargisson

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Contemporary Feminist Utopianism

By: Lucy Sargisson

A new and challenging entry into the debates between feminism and postmodernism, Contemporary Feminist Utopianism challenges some basic preconceptions about the role of political theory today. Sargisson explores current debates within utopian studies, feminist theory and poststructuralist deconstruction. Utopian thinking is offered as a route out of the dilemma of contemporary feminism as well as a way of conceptualizing its current situation. This book provides an exploration of, and exercise in, utopian thought.

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1134767668

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Utopian Bodies and the Politics of Transgression

By: Lucy Sargisson

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Living in Utopia

New Zealand’s Intentional Communities

By: Lucy Sargisson,Lyman Tower Sargent

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New Zealand’s Intentional Communities

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Queer Post-Gender Ethics

The Shape of Selves to Come

By: Lucy Nicholas

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Queer Post-Gender Ethics

The Shape of Selves to Come

By: Lucy Nicholas

Can society operate without gender and even biological sex classifications? Queer Post-Gender Ethics argues that we could exist, formulate our relationships and be sexual in more androgynous ways. Outlining a political vision for how a post-gender sociality might be achieved, it presents queer social practices for a truly gender neutral world.

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1137321628

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Contemporary Feminist Utopianism

By: Lucy Sargisson

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Fool's Gold?

Utopianism in the Twenty-First Century

By: L. Sargisson

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Utopianism in the Twenty-First Century

By: L. Sargisson

What's wrong with the world today and how might it become better (or worse)? These are the questions pursued in this book, which explores the hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares of the 21st century. Through architecture, fiction, theory, film and experiments with everyday life, Sargisson explores contemporary hopes and fears about the future.

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Book's by Lucy Sargisson

Living in Utopia

Living in Utopia

Utopian Bodies and the Politics of Transgression

Utopian Bodies and the Politics of Transgression

Contemporary Feminist Utopianism

Contemporary Feminist Utopianism

Utopian Bodies and the Politics of Transgression

Utopian Bodies and the Politics of Transgression

Living in Utopia

Living in Utopia

Queer Post-Gender Ethics

Queer Post-Gender Ethics

Contemporary Feminist Utopianism

Contemporary Feminist Utopianism

Fool's Gold?

Fool's Gold?

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