TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maïté Maskens
AU  - Ruy Blanes
PY  - 2018
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781787076983
TI  - Utopian Encounters
T2  - Anthropologies of Empirical Utopias
DO  - 10.3726/b10556
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1113408
N2  - This volume is an experiment: an enquiry into the possibilities and potentialities of a prospective anthropology of utopia. With different ethnographic contributions studying «empirical utopias» across the world (from ecotopias to religious havens, transnational policies, retirement homes and community agriculture), it looks beyond the commonsense understanding of utopia as a desire, an expectation, a form of imagination stemming from Western political thought. In the process, the volume explores the dynamic dialectic between human imagination and concrete action.
KW  - Utopia and anthropology, empirical utopias, immanence
LA  - English
ER  -