Title: Everyday Utopias : the conceptual life of promising spaces /
Authors: Cooper, Davina
Year: 2014
Subjects: Utopias Political aspects.; Utopias Social aspects.
Abstract: Everyday Utopias explores how everyday utopias-sites enacting commonplace activities in egalitarian, democratic, or emancipatory ways-contribute to a transformative politics through the concepts they put into practice and inspire.
Contents: Toward a utopian conceptual attitude -- Casting equality and the touch of state governance -- Public nudism and the pursuit of equality -- Unsettling feminist care ethics through a women's and trans bathhouse -- Normative time and the challenge of community labor in local exchange trading schemes -- Property as belonging at Summerhill School -- Market play at Speakers' Corner.