Utopian Imaginings
Saving the Future in the Present
Victoria V. Wolcott, Victoria V. Wolcott
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Utopian Imaginings
Saving the Future in the Present
Victoria V. Wolcott, Victoria V. Wolcott
About This Book
"Sometimes that's all it takes to save a world, you see. A new vision. A new way of thinking, appearing at just the right time." These words were spoken by a fictional character in N. K. Jemisin's 2019 utopian novella Emergency Skin. But the idea of saving the world through utopian imaginings has a deep and profound history. At this moment of ruptureâwith the related crises of the pandemic, racial uprisings, and climate change convergingâ Utopian Imaginings revisits this history to show how utopian thought and practice offer alternative paths to the future. The third book in the Humanities to the Rescue series, the volume examines both lived and imagined utopian communities from an interdisciplinary perspective. While attentive to the troubled and troubling elements of different spaces and collectives, Utopian Imaginings remains premised in hope, culminating in a series of inspiring exemplars of the utopian potential of the college classroom today.