Utopian Politics

Citizenship and Practice

Bibliographic Data

ID19928784
AuthorsRhiannon Firth (0000-0002-3280-0147, University of Nottingham, corresponding author)
Year2012
Pages187
Publication date2012-03-12
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueUtopian politics (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203155455
OpenAlexW4250548385
Open LibraryOL33747456M
ISBN9780203155455
LanguageEN
Citations received6

In the context of global problems such as the economic downturn, escalating inequality, terrorism, resource depletion and climate change, cynicism prevails in contemporary politics, which need not be the case. Utopian Politics confronts a world intensely aware of the problems that we face and sadly lacking in solutions, positing a utopian articulation of citizenship focused on community participation at a grassroots level. By re-examining central concepts and thinkers in political theory, this book re-casts the concepts of utopia and citizenship both as part of the classical philosophical tradition and simultaneously as part of the cutting edge of radical alternatives. This book includes never-before published ethnographic research, interviews and photographs from a range of autonomous UK communities, to show how the boundaries of politics and citizenship can be questioned and proposes an innovative methodology inspired by classical and post-structural anarchism. By considering ideas and practices that are generally considered to be marginal to mainstream political theory and practice, the book encourages readers to think about longstanding and central political debates in an entirely new, and creative way. Utopian Politics will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, ethics and citizenship

Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Citizenship · General · Philosophy · Social sciences · Utopias · Utopies

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