The politics of the (im)possible
Subtitle: utopia and dystopia reconsidered
By: edited by Barnita Bagchi
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9788132107347
Subjects: Utopias; Dystopias; History
Description: Revised version of papers presented at the international symposium on 'Utopia, dystopia, and concepts of development', held at Paris in February 2008.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction / Barnita Bagchi; title: Utopia and dystopia : debates and resonances; title: Utopia: future and/or alterity? / Miguel Abensour; title: Echo of an impossible return : an essay concerning Fredric Jameson's utopian thought and gathering and hunting social relations / Peter Kulchyski; title: Radicalism in early modern England : innovation or reformation? / Rachel Foxley; title: Dystopia, utopia, and Akhtaruzzaman Elias's novel Khowabnama / Subhoranjan Dasgupta; title: Palestine : land of utopias / Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun; title: Engendering utopia and dystopia; title: "One darling though terrific theme" : Anna Wheeler and the rights of women / Theresa Moriarty; title: A parliament of women : dystopia in nineteenth-century Bengali imagination / Samita Sen; title: "Empire builder" : a utopian alternative to citizenship for early-twentieth century British "ladies" / Martine Spensky; title: Ladylands and sacrificial holes : utopias and dystopias in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's writings / Barnita Bagchi; title: Utopia in the subjunctive mood : Bessie Head's When rain clouds gather / Modhumita Roy; title: Coda : resistance; title: Globalization, development, and resistance of utopian dreams to the praxis of dystopian utopia / Marie-Claire Caloz-Tschopp; title: About the editor and contributors; title: Index.