Utopian Imaginings
Saving the Future in the Present
Abstract
Sometimes that's all it takes to save a world, you see. A new vision. A new way of thinking, appearing at just the right time. These words were spoken by a fictional character in N. K. Jemisin's 2019 utopian novella Emergency Skin. But the idea of saving the world through utopian imaginings has a deep and profound history. At this moment of rupture—with the related crises of the pandemic, racial uprisings, and climate change converging—Utopian Imaginings revisits this history to show how utopian thought and practice offer alternative paths to the future. The third book in the Humanities to the Rescue series, the volume examines both lived and imagined utopian communities from an interdisciplinary perspective. While attentive to the troubled and troubling elements of different spaces and collectives, Utopian Imaginings remains premised in hope, culminating in a series of inspiring exemplars of the utopian potential of the college classroom today.<br><br>This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support of the Humanities Institute at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
Keywords
United States, 19th Century,20th Century,21st Century, History, Feminism & Feminist TheoryISBN
9781438497518, 9781438497501Publisher
State University of New York PressPublisher website
http://www.sunypress.edu/Publication date and place
2024Imprint
SUNY PressSeries
SUNY series, Humanities to the Rescue,Classification
History
Religion: general
Society and Social Sciences