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Green Utopianism

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Perspectives, Politics and Micro-Practices

Green Utopianism

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Green Utopianism book

Perspectives, Politics and Micro-Practices
Edited ByKarin Bradley, Johan Hedrén
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 14 March 2014
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203067215
Pages 302
eBook ISBN 9780203067215
Subjects Environment and Sustainability, Geography, Social Sciences
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Bradley, K., & Hedrén, J. (Eds.). (2014). Green Utopianism: Perspectives, Politics and Micro-Practices (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203067215

ABSTRACT

Utopian thought and experimental approaches to societal organization have been rare in the last decades of planning and politics. Instead, there is a widespread belief in ecological modernization, that sustainable societies can be created within the frame of the current global capitalist world order by taking small steps such as eco-labeling, urban densification, and recycling. However, in the context of the current crisis in which resource depletion, climate change, uneven development, and economic instability are seen as interlinked, this belief is increasingly being questioned and alternative developmental paths sought. This collection demonstrates how utopian thought can be used in a contemporary context, as critique and in exploring desired futures. The book includes theoretical perspectives on changing global socio-environmental relationships and political struggles for alternative development paths, and analyzes micro-level practices in co-housing, alternative energy provision, use of green space, transportation, co-production of urban space, peer-to-peer production and consumption, and alternative economies. It contributes research perspectives on contemporary green utopian practices and strategies, combining theoretical and empirical analyses to spark discussions of possible futures.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|20 pages

Utopian Thought in the Making of Green Futures

ByKARIN BRADLEY, JOHAN HEDRÉN

part |2 pages

Part I The Politics of Science

chapter 2|15 pages

Anthropocenic Politicization: From the Politics of the Environment to Politicizing Environments

ByERIK SWYNGEDOUW

chapter 3|19 pages

A Feminist Project of Belonging for the Anthropocene

ByJ.K. GIBSON-GRAHAM

chapter 4|19 pages

Utopianism in Science: The Case of Resilience Theory

chapter 5|23 pages

Why Solar Panels Don’t Grow on Trees: Technological Utopianism and the Uneasy Relation Between Marxism and Ecological Economics

ByALF HORNBORG

part |2 pages

Part II Transforming Politics and Planning

chapter 6|14 pages

Politicizing Planning through Multiple Images of the Future

ByULRIKA GUNNARSSON-ÖSTLING

chapter 7|16 pages

Mobility Transitions: The Necessity of Utopian Approaches

ByKAROLINA ISAKSSON

chapter 8|19 pages

Utopian Desires and Institutional Change

ByMEIKE SCHALK

chapter 9|15 pages

The Urban Park as “Paradise Contrived”

ByYLVA UGGLA

chapter 10|16 pages

Globalism, Particularism and the Greening of Neoliberal Energy Landscapes

ByEnergy Landscapes TOM MELS

part |2 pages

Part III Changing Practices

chapter 11|22 pages

Towards a Peer Economy: How Open Source and Peer-to-Peer Architecture, Hardware, and Consumption Are Transforming the Economy

ByKARIN BRADLEY

chapter 12|21 pages

Autonomous Urbanisms and the Right to the City: Squatting and the Production of the Urban Commons in Berlin

ByALEXANDER VASUDEVAN

chapter 13|17 pages

Utopianism in the Architecture of New Urbanism and Cohousing

ByLUCY SARGISSON

chapter 14|15 pages

Transition Delayed: The 1980s Ecotopia of a Decentralized Renewable Energy System

ByMARTIN HULTMAN

chapter 15|21 pages

R-Urban: Strategies and Tactics for Participative Utopias and Resilient Practices

ByCONSTANTIN PETCOU, DOINA PETRESCU
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