Daniel Analysing Contemporary Society through Lived Utopia

Prefiguration and Change
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5292-5232-3
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

What if utopia wasn't a distant dream, but already unfolding around us?

Focusing on South Africa, this compelling book rethinks utopia not as a fictional unreachable future, but as a lived practice – emerging in social movements and intentional communities.

Rejecting capitalism, it explores how people create alternative ways of living social orders or economies, imagining and organizing the world. Blending decolonial sociology, political sociology, utopian studies and real-world experiences, the book offers a fresh and original approach to understanding social transformation in times of crisis.

A powerful read for scholars, students and activists interested in resistance and hope for alternative futures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daniel, Antje

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. (Lived) Utopia in the Context of Academic Debates

3. African Utopias from the Perspective of Decolonial Sociology

4. Lived Utopias: Criticism and Imaginaries of a Good Life

5. Lived Utopias and Their Aspiration to a Good Life

6. Inside Lived Utopias: Biographical Testimonies and Intersectional Configuration

7. Lived Utopias – Resonances – Change

8. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel, Antje
Antje Daniel is Senior Researcher at the Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna and Associate Researcher at the Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg.