ISBN:
9781787076983
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (248 Seiten)
,
13 ill
Ausgabe:
1st, New ed
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Schlagwort(e):
Wirklichkeit
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Feldforschung
;
Empirie
;
Anthropologie
;
Utopie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Anthropologie
;
Utopie
;
Wirklichkeit
;
Empirie
;
Feldforschung
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
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
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
«Where is the utopos? Imagining potentially new worlds has been part and parcel of what being human is about along history and across cultures. With a fresh and robust theoretical framework based on ethnography, encounters and configurations, laid out in its introduction, the ethnographic cases discussed in this book manage to root utopia in anthropological theory and to propose original ways for social scientists to consider utopia, paradoxical as this may sound, as a very concrete place from where to think about agency, morality, politics, religion and expectations. The combination of new theoretical propositions and rich ethnographic analysis will make this book a must read in the scholarship of utopia and imagination» (Ramon Sarró Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of Africa, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford) «This is a fascinating collection of essays. It not only shows why anthropologists should care about utopias − in all their forms − but also ably demonstrates the great contribution that anthropologists can make to the broader field of utopian studies. The collection is imaginative, thought provoking and provocative, bringing together case studies and analysis from around the world in order to offer new insights into just why the utopian impulse is so important and significant.» (Professor Tobias Kelly, Professor of Political and Legal Anthropology, School of Social and Political Science, The University of Edinburgh)
Anmerkung:
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