Trans/Forming Utopia - Volume I -

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Is the utopian project dead? Is it possible to imagine a utopian society or a utopian world in the aftermath of the collapse of ideologies? This book contains fifteen essays which are the result of the 7th International Conference of Utopian Studies held in Spain in 2006, either debating the subject

Biographie:
Contents: Elizabeth Russell: Introduction - Jacqueline Dutton: Forever Young? French Perspectives on Ageing in Global Communities of the Future - Elvin Ayd?du: Torremolinos 73 and Namuslu : Spain and Turkey as Dystopias in the 1970s and 80s, and Their Postmodern Futures - Simona Sangiorgi: The Disney Parlance: An On-Stage Utopia Out of Backstage Dystopia - Maria Bonet/John Style: Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven : Utopian Forms and Utopian Functions - Saul Newman: Anarchism, Utopianism and the Politics of Emancipation - Henning Wrage: Ernst Bloch on the Dialectic of Human Rights - James H. Read: Universal Empowerment as a Utopian Idea - Saskia Poldervaart: The Relationship Between Anarchism, Utopianism and Feminism. Utopianism as a Strategy of Social Movements - Elizabeth Russell: No Place, No Body: Lastmanism and Lastwomanism - Francis Shor: A Better (or, Battered) World is Possible: Utopian/Dystopian Dialectics in the American Century - Sara Mart?n Alegre: Apocalypse Soon? The Uncertain Utopia of Steven Spielberg's Adaptation of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds - Annette M. Magid: Intricacies of Intertitles in Fritz Lang's Metropolis - Ian Donnachie: A New Moral World? International Dimensions of Owenism 1815-1830 - Maria da Concei??o Meireles Pereira: Iberia and Euchronia - a Portuguese Federalist Project (1854) - Evandro Bocatto/Elo?sa P?rez de Toledo: E-learning as a Tool for Community Critical Education and Development....

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Contents: Elizabeth Russell: Introduction - Jacqueline Dutton: Forever Young? French Perspectives on Ageing in Global Communities of the Future - Elvin Ayd?du: Torremolinos 73 and Namuslu: Spain and Turkey as Dystopias in the 1970s and 80s, and Their Postmodern Futures - Simona Sangiorgi: The Disney Parlance: An On-Stage Utopia Out of Backstage Dystopia - Maria Bonet/John Style: Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven: Utopian Forms and Utopian Functions - Saul Newman: Anarchism, Utopianism and the Politics of Emancipation - Henning Wrage: Ernst Bloch on the Dialectic of Human Rights - James H. Read: Universal Empowerment as a Utopian Idea - Saskia Poldervaart: The Relationship Between Anarchism, Utopianism and Feminism. Utopianism as a Strategy of Social Movements - Elizabeth Russell: No Place, No Body: Lastmanism and Lastwomanism - Francis Shor: A Better (or, Battered) World is Possible: Utopian/Dystopian Dialectics in the American Century - Sara Mart?n Alegre: Apocalypse Soon? The Uncertain Utopia of Steven Spielberg's Adaptation of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds - Annette M. Magid: Intricacies of Intertitles in Fritz Lang's Metropolis- Ian Donnachie: A New Moral World? International Dimensions of Owenism 1815-1830 - Maria da Concei??o Meireles Pereira: Iberia and Euchronia - a Portuguese Federalist Project (1854) - Evandro Bocatto/Elo?sa P?rez de Toledo: E-learning as a Tool for Community Critical Education and Development....