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Globalization and Utopia

Critical Essays

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  • © 2009

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  1. Patrick Hayden

    1. University of St Andrews, UK

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  2. Chamsy el-Ojeili

    1. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Reflections on the Demise and Renewal of Utopia in a Global Age

    1. Introduction: Reflections on the Demise and Renewal of Utopia in a Global Age

      • Patrick Hayden, Chamsy el-Ojeili
      Pages 1-9

  3. Globalization and Utopianism: Theoretical Connections

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Placing Utopia: Some Classical Images

      • Peter Beilharz, Christine Ellem
      Pages 13-27

    3. ‘Globalization’ as Collective Representation: The New Dream of a Cosmopolitan Civil Sphere

      • Jeffrey C. Alexander
      Pages 28-39

    4. Two Post-Marxisms: Beyond Post-Socialism?

      • Chamsy el-Ojeili
      Pages 40-50

    5. Globalization, Reflexive Utopianism, and the Cosmopolitan Social Imaginary

      • Patrick Hayden
      Pages 51-67

    6. After Utopia: Notes on an Ethics of Newness

      • Leela Gandhi
      Pages 68-81

    7. Postsecularism: A New Global Debate

      • Gregor Mclennan
      Pages 82-98

  4. Critical Perspectives on Utopian Visions in a Global Age

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. After 1989: Globalization, Normalization, and Utopia

      • Larry Ray
      Pages 101-116

    3. Made in America: The Unsustainable All-Consuming Global Free-Market ‘Utopia’

      • Barry Smart
      Pages 117-136

    4. Islamutopia, (Post)Modernity and the Multitude

      • Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
      Pages 137-155

    5. Utopias Without Transcendence? Post-Left Anarchy, Immediacy and Utopian Energy

      • Andrew Robinson, Simon Tormey
      Pages 156-175

    6. Libertarian Cyber-Utopianism and Global Digital Networks

      • Lincoln Dahlberg
      Pages 176-189

    7. (Con)Temporary Utopian Spaces

      • Giorel Curran
      Pages 190-206

    8. Glocalization and the New Local Transnationalisms: Real Utopias in Liminal Spaces

      • Ronaldo Munck
      Pages 207-219

    9. The Grandchildren of Marx and Coca-Cola: Lefebvre, Utopia and the ‘Recuperation’ of Everyday Life

      • Michael E. Gardiner
      Pages 220-236

    10. Concluding Reflections

      • Patrick Hayden, Chamsy el-Ojeili
      Pages 237-242

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 243-275
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About this book

Taking aim at the belief in utopia's demise, this collection of original essays offers a new look at the vibrant renewal of utopianism emerging in response to the challenges of globalization. It consider questions of hope and transformation associated with the utopian desire for social change.

Reviews

"An excellent collection by truly serious authors on an subject hitherto ignored." - Charles Lemert, Professor of Sociology, Wesleyan University, USA

"This collection of essays places the concept of utopia firmly at the centre of a critical understanding of the idea and process of globalization. More, it shows how the idea of utopia is central to critical social theory. It not only deserves, but needs, to be widely read." - Ruth Levitas, Professor of Sociology, Bristol University, UK

"The imaginative essays compiled in this bold study attest to the vitality of critical utopianism in the global age. Wide-ranging yet admirably focused, this collection makes an important contribution to the new transdisciplinary field of global studies." - Manfred Steger, Professor of Global Studies and Director of Globalism Research Centre Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

'This is undoubtedly a rigorous and thought-provoking collection of essays which should be essential reading for those wishing to engage critically with the concept of globalization.' - Political Studies Review

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of St Andrews, UK

    Patrick Hayden

  • Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

    Chamsy el-Ojeili

About the authors

ARSHIN ADIB-MOGHADDAM teaches comparative politics and international relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK JEFFREY C. ALEXANDER is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University, USA PETER BEILHARZ is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology at La Trobe University, Australia GIOREL CURRAN is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Public Policy and Researcher in the Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University, Australia LINCOLN DAHLBERG teaches in the School of Journalism and Communication at The University of Queensland, Australia CHRISTINE ELLEM is a PhD candidate in Sociology at La Trobe University, Australia LEELA GANDHI is Professor of English at the University of Chicago, USA MICHAEL GARDINER is Professor in Sociology at The University of Western Ontario, Canada GREGOR MCLENNAN is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK RONALDO MUNCK is currently part of Dublin City University's 'matrix model management' in charge of internationalisation and social development (www.dcu.ie/themes), Ireland LARRY RAY is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, UK ANDREW ROBINSON is an activist and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice in the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK BARRY SMART is Professor of Sociology at the University of Portsmouth, UK SIMON TORMEY is Professor of Politics and Critical Theory, founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, and Head of the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, UK

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