Utopia against the welfare state
Rethinking Utopia in an Age of Reproductive Crises
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5726059 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tue Andersen Nexø (University of Copenhagen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1456-1474 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Textual Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-236X • E-ISSN: 1470-1308 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0950236x.2023.2248796 |
| OpenAlex | W4386251134 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This essay uses the work the easiness and the loneliness (2013) by the Danish author Asta Olivia Nordenhof to examine the relationship between utopian imaginings and representations of everyday life. It also attempts to develop an alternative to the American literary theorist Fredric Jameson’s influential theories on the form and function of utopian writing. The context for Jameson’s theory of utopia is a diagnosis of our present characterised by our inability to conceive of any alternative; for Jameson, the principal function of utopian writing is its capacity to open the future as a site of alterity. Arguing that the last decade has seen our historical moment theorised as one incapable of sustaining itself, rather than characterised by the impossibility of imagining the future, the essay uses, among others, the French philosopher Miguel Abensour to articulate how the connection between utopia and the everyday might foster a new and more timely understanding of utopia
Aesthetics · Art history · Environmental ethics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Utopia · Welfare · Welfare state · Gender Studies · History · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Social Policy and Reform Studies
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |