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Consuming the Romantic Utopia

, 2023
This book owes many debts to many people. Contrary to custom, I would like to thank my husband, Elchanan Ben-Porath, at the very beginning. The two years during which I wrote this book coincided with the first two years of our marriage and saw the ...
Eva Illouz
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Utopia as method: the imaginary reconstitution of society

Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2021
Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could. Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to “normality,” trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to ...
Antti Rajala
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International Organization as Technocratic Utopia

, 2021
As climate change and a pandemic pose enormous challenges to humankind, the concept of expert governance gains new traction. This book revisits the idea that scientists, bureaucrats, and lawyers, rather than politicians or diplomats, should manage ...
J. Steffek
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Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform.

, 1996
Prologue: Learning from the Past 1. Progress or Regress? 2. Policy Cycles and Institutional Trends 3. How Schools Change Reforms 4. Why the Grammar of Schooling Persists 5.
David B. Tyack, Larry Cuban
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Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity

, 2009
Acknowledgments Introduction: Feeling Utopia1 Queerness as Horizon: Utopian Hermeneutics in the Face of Gay Pragmatism2 Ghosts of Public Sex: Utopian Longings, Queer Memories 3 The Future Is in the Present: Sexual Avant-Gardes and the Performance of ...
J. Muñoz
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Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

, 2013
We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "internet of things," and more people live in cities than in the countryside.
A. Townsend
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Inhabiting the Self-Work Romantic Utopia: Positive Psychology, Life Coaching, and the Challenge of Self-Fulfillment at Work

, 2020
Much has been said about the rise of work as a central identity marker in modern society. With the recent popularization of self-help and positive psychology, this identity marker broadened its signification to include new emotional needs such as love ...
Michal Pagis
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Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Princeton Readings in Political Thought, 2018
Robert Nozicka s Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age ---- liberal, socialist and conservative.
R. Nozick
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Surrendering to Utopia

, 2020
At a time of contrasting narratives about human rights, from irresponsible triumphalism to cynical pessimism, here is a book that masterfully guides us into the complexities of contextualized practices of human rights across cultures and national ...
Mark Goodale
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The utopia of rules. On technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy

, 2016
The name of David Graeber had often came across in my conversations with a colleague in the University of Burgos (an anthropologist) when I found this appealing title in the bookshop.
Carlos Larrinaga
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