Lucy Sargisson
Biographic Data
| ID | 642874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucy Sargisson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucy |
| FAMILY NAME | Sargisson |
| SIGNATURE | SARGISSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sex in Utopia
In this article we explore two sex-related questions. First, what have the authors of utopias and dystopias said about sexual behavior and relationships in their works? In examining this question, we seek to identify different modes of sexual behavior or relationships that have been presented as characterizing the good or bad society. Second, what is the role of sex in utopia and dystopia? Is there a sexual element of how to get from here to ther…
A Democracy of All Nature: Taking a Utopian Approach
This article offers a controversial argument, namely that a utopian approach adds something valuable to the study of politics. I develop this position by showing how utopian fiction and experimentation can contribute to a recent debate in environmental politics; the call for a democracy that ‘includes nature’. I argue that a utopian approach has limits – for example, it cannot provide all the answers or offer blueprints for a perfect world – but …
Fool's Gold: Utopianism in the Twenty-First Century
Fool's Gold
What's wrong with the world today and how might it become better (or worse)? These are the questions pursued in this book, which explores the hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares of the 21st century
Second-Wave Cohousing: A Modern Utopia
Cohousing is an increasingly popular form of tenure that combines elements of private and collective ownership and affords its occupants a combination of the advantages of individual proprietorship with some of the benefits of living in a community that shares some of its space and activities. People join cohousing groups because they believe that there is something wrong with life in most villages, towns, and cities and they want to develop a be…
Friends Have All Things in Common: Utopian Property Relations
Utopian theory has long challenged the conventions of private property. Drawing on two case studies, this article explores utopian practices that challenge dominant property narratives. These practices range from the mundane to the profound and occur inside the domestic, economic, interpersonal and ideological structures of the cases in question. These cases are Riverside and Centrepoint Communities: two intentional communities, comprised of peop…
Reflections: Can Utopianism Exist Without Intent
Strange Places: Estrangement, Utopianism, and Intentional Communities
Research Article| January 01 2007 Strange Places: Estrangement, Utopianism, and Intentional Communities Lucy Sargisson Lucy Sargisson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2007) 18 (3): 393–424. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719884 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lucy Sargisson; Strange Places: Estrangement, Utopianism, and Intentional Communities. Utopian Studies 1 Januar…
Religious fundamentalism and utopianism in the 21st century
Why is it so difficult to respond to religious fundamentalism from within a liberal paradigm? This paper explores a core problem within religious fundamentalism, stemming from its relationship to the phenomenon of utopianism. This is a complex relationship, which occurs on several different levels, including the content of fundamentalist visions (religious fundamentalisms contain utopian visions of the good life), and its structural paradigm (uto…
Contemporary Feminist Utopianism
A new and challenging entry into the debates between feminism and postmodernism, Contemporary Feminist Utopianism challenges some basic preconceptions about the role of political theory today. Sargisson explores current debates within utopian studies, feminist theory and poststructuralist deconstruction. Utopian thinking is offered as a route out of the dilemma of contemporary feminism as well as a way of conceptualizing its current situation. Th…
Utopian Bodies and the Politics of Transgression
What do we want? What do we believe to be wrong with the world? How can we best change it?How should we live? Given the world as it is, how can we best achieve our dreams and desires? Utopian Bodies is, quite simply, a new approach to thinking about theory. Using the dominant themes of green and feminist politics, this fascinating and original text creates a new notion of utopian thought and life - "transgressive utopianism". This new concept is …
Utopian Studies Society: Call for Papers
Politicising the Quotidian
This article issues directly from fieldwork on intentional communities and the green movement in the UK. Research involved visits to a number of intentional communities in Britain and interviews comprising a series of open-ended questions about the nature and role of the community and individual worldviews and politics. During the course of these interviews there emerged a recurrent theme concerning the ways that life in these communities disrupt…
What's Wrong with Ecofeminism
This essay aims to establish that feminism and ecologism, when linked, have a potential that exceeds the sum of its parts. Feminism and ecologism as bodies of thought meet most frequently in the field of ecofeminism. This is not the most exciting or profitable terrain on which they can address each other. Rather, feminism and ecologism can meet on two coexisting levels. The first concerns matters of content – specifically, their shared concern wi…
Green Utopias of self and other
Utopian bodies and the politics of transgression
Contemporary feminist utopianism
Contemporary Feminist Utopianism is a stimulating, original and accessible entry into the debate between feminism and postmodernism, which sets out to challenge some basic preconceptions about the role of political theory. Lucy Sargisson explores current debates within utopian studies, feminist theory and poststructuralist deconstruction, arguing for utopianism as a route out of the dilemma of contemporary feminism as well as a way of conceptuali…
Second-Wave Cohousing: A Modern Utopia
Cohousing is an increasingly popular form of tenure that combines elements of private and collective ownership and affords its occupants a combination of the advantages of individual proprietorship with some of the benefits of living in a community that shares some of its space and activities. People join cohousing groups because they believe that there is something wrong with life in most villages, towns, and cities and they want to develop a be…
What's Wrong with Ecofeminism
This essay aims to establish that feminism and ecologism, when linked, have a potential that exceeds the sum of its parts. Feminism and ecologism as bodies of thought meet most frequently in the field of ecofeminism. This is not the most exciting or profitable terrain on which they can address each other. Rather, feminism and ecologism can meet on two coexisting levels. The first concerns matters of content – specifically, their shared concern wi…
Politicising the Quotidian
This article issues directly from fieldwork on intentional communities and the green movement in the UK. Research involved visits to a number of intentional communities in Britain and interviews comprising a series of open-ended questions about the nature and role of the community and individual worldviews and politics. During the course of these interviews there emerged a recurrent theme concerning the ways that life in these communities disrupt…
A Democracy of All Nature: Taking a Utopian Approach
This article offers a controversial argument, namely that a utopian approach adds something valuable to the study of politics. I develop this position by showing how utopian fiction and experimentation can contribute to a recent debate in environmental politics; the call for a democracy that ‘includes nature’. I argue that a utopian approach has limits – for example, it cannot provide all the answers or offer blueprints for a perfect world – but …
Sex in Utopia
In this article we explore two sex-related questions. First, what have the authors of utopias and dystopias said about sexual behavior and relationships in their works? In examining this question, we seek to identify different modes of sexual behavior or relationships that have been presented as characterizing the good or bad society. Second, what is the role of sex in utopia and dystopia? Is there a sexual element of how to get from here to ther…
Friends Have All Things in Common: Utopian Property Relations
Utopian theory has long challenged the conventions of private property. Drawing on two case studies, this article explores utopian practices that challenge dominant property narratives. These practices range from the mundane to the profound and occur inside the domestic, economic, interpersonal and ideological structures of the cases in question. These cases are Riverside and Centrepoint Communities: two intentional communities, comprised of peop…
Religious fundamentalism and utopianism in the 21st century
Why is it so difficult to respond to religious fundamentalism from within a liberal paradigm? This paper explores a core problem within religious fundamentalism, stemming from its relationship to the phenomenon of utopianism. This is a complex relationship, which occurs on several different levels, including the content of fundamentalist visions (religious fundamentalisms contain utopian visions of the good life), and its structural paradigm (uto…
Contemporary feminist utopianism
Contemporary Feminist Utopianism is a stimulating, original and accessible entry into the debate between feminism and postmodernism, which sets out to challenge some basic preconceptions about the role of political theory. Lucy Sargisson explores current debates within utopian studies, feminist theory and poststructuralist deconstruction, arguing for utopianism as a route out of the dilemma of contemporary feminism as well as a way of conceptuali…
Green Utopias of self and other
Utopian bodies and the politics of transgression
Politicising the Quotidian
This article issues directly from fieldwork on intentional communities and the green movement in the UK. Research involved visits to a number of intentional communities in Britain and interviews comprising a series of open-ended questions about the nature and role of the community and individual worldviews and politics. During the course of these interviews there emerged a recurrent theme concerning the ways that life in these communities disrupt…
What's Wrong with Ecofeminism
This essay aims to establish that feminism and ecologism, when linked, have a potential that exceeds the sum of its parts. Feminism and ecologism as bodies of thought meet most frequently in the field of ecofeminism. This is not the most exciting or profitable terrain on which they can address each other. Rather, feminism and ecologism can meet on two coexisting levels. The first concerns matters of content – specifically, their shared concern wi…
Contemporary Feminist Utopianism
A new and challenging entry into the debates between feminism and postmodernism, Contemporary Feminist Utopianism challenges some basic preconceptions about the role of political theory today. Sargisson explores current debates within utopian studies, feminist theory and poststructuralist deconstruction. Utopian thinking is offered as a route out of the dilemma of contemporary feminism as well as a way of conceptualizing its current situation. Th…
Utopian Bodies and the Politics of Transgression
What do we want? What do we believe to be wrong with the world? How can we best change it?How should we live? Given the world as it is, how can we best achieve our dreams and desires? Utopian Bodies is, quite simply, a new approach to thinking about theory. Using the dominant themes of green and feminist politics, this fascinating and original text creates a new notion of utopian thought and life - "transgressive utopianism". This new concept is …
Utopian Studies Society: Call for Papers
Strange Places: Estrangement, Utopianism, and Intentional Communities
Research Article| January 01 2007 Strange Places: Estrangement, Utopianism, and Intentional Communities Lucy Sargisson Lucy Sargisson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2007) 18 (3): 393–424. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719884 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lucy Sargisson; Strange Places: Estrangement, Utopianism, and Intentional Communities. Utopian Studies 1 Januar…
Religious fundamentalism and utopianism in the 21st century
Why is it so difficult to respond to religious fundamentalism from within a liberal paradigm? This paper explores a core problem within religious fundamentalism, stemming from its relationship to the phenomenon of utopianism. This is a complex relationship, which occurs on several different levels, including the content of fundamentalist visions (religious fundamentalisms contain utopian visions of the good life), and its structural paradigm (uto…
Reflections: Can Utopianism Exist Without Intent
Friends Have All Things in Common: Utopian Property Relations
Utopian theory has long challenged the conventions of private property. Drawing on two case studies, this article explores utopian practices that challenge dominant property narratives. These practices range from the mundane to the profound and occur inside the domestic, economic, interpersonal and ideological structures of the cases in question. These cases are Riverside and Centrepoint Communities: two intentional communities, comprised of peop…
Fool's Gold: Utopianism in the Twenty-First Century
Fool's Gold
What's wrong with the world today and how might it become better (or worse)? These are the questions pursued in this book, which explores the hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares of the 21st century
Second-Wave Cohousing: A Modern Utopia
Cohousing is an increasingly popular form of tenure that combines elements of private and collective ownership and affords its occupants a combination of the advantages of individual proprietorship with some of the benefits of living in a community that shares some of its space and activities. People join cohousing groups because they believe that there is something wrong with life in most villages, towns, and cities and they want to develop a be…
A Democracy of All Nature: Taking a Utopian Approach
This article offers a controversial argument, namely that a utopian approach adds something valuable to the study of politics. I develop this position by showing how utopian fiction and experimentation can contribute to a recent debate in environmental politics; the call for a democracy that ‘includes nature’. I argue that a utopian approach has limits – for example, it cannot provide all the answers or offer blueprints for a perfect world – but …
Sex in Utopia
In this article we explore two sex-related questions. First, what have the authors of utopias and dystopias said about sexual behavior and relationships in their works? In examining this question, we seek to identify different modes of sexual behavior or relationships that have been presented as characterizing the good or bad society. Second, what is the role of sex in utopia and dystopia? Is there a sexual element of how to get from here to ther…
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