Wish We Were There
Hope, Desire, and Utopian Community in Contemporary Solarpunk
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6011844 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexa Weik Von Mossner (0000-0003-2929-595X, University of Klagenfurt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 467-489 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Utopian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-991X • E-ISSN: 2154-9648 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/utopianstudies.35.2-3.0467 |
| OpenAlex | W4406780218 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
Solarpunk’s commitment to the creation of hopeful and desirable futures may have transformative potential at a time when people are growing tired of the never-ending list of bad news. Its dynamic of realist audacity and radical hope makes it a fascinating genre to explore, but the importance of a third emotional state—utopian desire—is rarely mentioned explicitly. In Ruth Levitas’s influential definition, utopia is “an expression of desire for a different way of living and being.” The article argues that solarpunk is suffused and propelled by that desire not only in its manifold speculative storyworlds but also in its insistence on collective transformative action
Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Sociology · Visual arts · Wish · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |