This collection addresses the ways in which the contributors approach their study of the objects and practices of utopianism (understood as social anticipations

Utopia should be understood as a method rather than a goal. This book rehabilitates utopia as a repressed dimension of the sociological and in the process produ

A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition. This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in t

A series of essays by an international and trans-disciplinary group of contributors which explores the nature and extent of the utopian impulse. Working across

The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, politica