Globalization and Utopia : Critical Essays

Taking aim at the belief in utopia's demise, this collection of original essays offers a new look at the vibrant renewal of utopianism emerging in response to the challenges of globalization. It consider questions of hope and transformation associated with the utopian desire for social change.

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Reflections on the Demise and Renewal of Utopia in a Global Age; P.Hayden & C.el-Ojeili PART I: GLOBALIZATION AND UTOPIANISM: THEORETICAL CONNECTIONS Placing Utopia: Some Classical Images; P.Beilharz & C.Ellem ''Globalization'' as Collective Representation: The New Dream of a Cosmopolitan Civil Sphere; J.C.Alexander Two Post-Marxisms: Beyond Post-Socialism?; C.el-Ojeili Globalization, Reflexive Utopianism, and the Cosmopolitan Social Imaginary; P.Hayden After Utopia: Notes on an Ethics of Newness; L.Gandhi Postsecularism: A New Global Debate; G.McLennan PART II: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON UTOPIAN VISIONS IN A GLOBAL AGE After 1989: Globalization, Normalization and Utopia; L.Ray Made in America: The Unsustainable All-Consuming Global Free-Market ''Utopia''; B.Smart Islamutopia, (Post)Modernity and the Multitude; A.Adib-Moghaddam Utopias Without Transcendence? Post-Left Anarchy, Immediacy and Utopian Energy; A.Robinson & S.Tormey Libertarian Cyber-Utopianism and Global Digital Networks; L.Dahlberg (Con)Temporary Utopian Spaces; G.Curran Glocalization and the New Local Transnationalisms: Real Utopias in Liminal Spaces; R.Munck The Grandchildren of Marx and Coca-Cola: Lefebvre, Utopia and the ''Recuperation'' of Everyday Life; M.Gardiner Concluding Reflections; P.Hayden & C.el-Ojeili Bibliography