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Everyday Utopias : The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (296 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822377153
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 335/.02
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Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Toward a Utopian Conceptual Attitude -- 3. Casting Equality and the Touch of State Governance -- 4. Public Nudism and the Pursuit of Equality -- 5. Unsettling Feminist Care Ethics through a Women's and Trans Bathhouse -- 6. Normative Time and the Challenge of Community Labor in Local Exchange Trading Schemes -- 7. Property as Belonging at Summerhill School -- 8. Market Play at Speakers' Corner -- 9. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: Everyday Utopias explores how everyday utopias--sites enacting commonplace activities in egalitarian, democratic, or emancipatory ways--contribute to a transformative politics through the concepts they put into practice and inspire.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Toward a Utopian Conceptual Attitude -- 3. Casting Equality and the Touch of State Governance -- 4. Public Nudism and the Pursuit of Equality -- 5. Unsettling Feminist Care Ethics through a Women's and Trans Bathhouse -- 6. Normative Time and the Challenge of Community Labor in Local Exchange Trading Schemes -- 7. Property as Belonging at Summerhill School -- 8. Market Play at Speakers' Corner -- 9. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Everyday Utopias explores how everyday utopias--sites enacting commonplace activities in egalitarian, democratic, or emancipatory ways--contribute to a transformative politics through the concepts they put into practice and inspire.

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