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Dictionary of Alternatives, The: Utopianism and Organization


Dictionary of Alternatives, The: Utopianism and Organization

Paperback by Parker, Doctor Martin; Fournier, Valerie; Reedy, Patrick

Dictionary of Alternatives, The: Utopianism and Organization

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ISBN:
9781842773338
Publication Date:
15 Apr 2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:
Zed Books Ltd
Pages:
352 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 1 May 2024
Dictionary of Alternatives, The: Utopianism and Organization

Description

'There is no alternative to free market liberalism and managerialism', is the orthodoxy of the twenty-first century. All too often, ordinary people across the world are being told that the problem of organization is already solved, or that it is being solved somewhere else, or that it need not concern them because they have no choices. This dictionary provides those who disagree with the evidence. Using hundreds of entries and cross-references, it proves that there are many alternatives to the way that we currently organize ourselves. These alternatives could be expressed as fictional utopias, they could be excavated from the past, or they could be described in terms of the contemporary politics of anti-corporate protest, environmentalism, feminism and localism. Part reference work, part source book, and part polemic, this dictionary provides a rich understanding of the ways in which fiction, history and today's politics provide different ways of thinking about how we can and should organize for the coming century.

Contents

Introduction A-Z of Utopian Thought - Over 300 detailed entries, from the familiar to the esoteric. For example: Fictional Utopias The Republic Gulliver's Travels News from Nowhere Island Social Experiments America Bourneville Cuba The Paris Commune Porto Alegre Soviet Union Wikipedia Social Movements The Black Panthers Communism Deep Ecology Fair Trade Levellers New Model Army Romanticism Situtationist Via Campesina The World Social Forum Zapatistas Thinkers Bakunin Castro Marx Gandhi Guevara Illich Nozick Friere Rawls Further Reading

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