Davina Cooper

Everyday Utopias

The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9780822355557
• ISBN-10: 0822355558
• Artikelnr.: 38061450

Autorenporträt

Davina Cooper

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
1. Introduction  1
2. Toward a Utopian Conceptual Attitude 24
3. Casting Equality and the Touch of State Governance 45
4. Public Nudism and the Pursuit of Equality 73
5. Unsettling Feminist Care Ethics through a Women's and Trans Bathhouse
100
6. Normative Time and the Challenge of Community Labor in Local Exchange
Trading Schemes 129
7. Property as Belonging at Summerhill School 155
8. Market Play at Speaker's Corner 186
9. Conclusion 217
Notes 229
References 251
Index 277