Taking aim at the belief in utopia's demise, this collection of original essays offers a new look
at the vibrant renewal of utopianism emerging in response to the challenges of globalization…

… a globalized era as the internet (‘Libertarian Cyber-Utopianism and … Globalization and Utopia
is a memorable and useful … century globalization have left no region of the world unaltered. …

… that utopia and globalization are ‘intrinsically linked’ and later that ‘utopia and globalization
… critical theorists’ such as Beck, Held and Habermas, which he sees as a rehabilitation of the …

… Utopia thus connotes the desire to transgress borders and to encounter other lands and …
In this way utopia and globalization are born together. Utopianism mirrors the classical …

… globalization itself, particularly the phenomenon of global culture. No longer could globalization
be … The rise of the cultural discourse of globalization, what we may call its ‘cultural turn’, …

… critical of contemporary neoliberal capitalists and politicians for their utopian vision of a
frictionless global economy … Again, he points out that the realisation of this utopian fantasy relies …

… dynamics in shaping the ways in which utopia is understood today. In the end, the …
globalization is merely the sum of existing practices and policies, by demonstrating that globalization …

… In looking for premodern resources for a Buddhist materialism rooted in a critical, utopian
framework, I suggest that one might be found within the Japanese Nichiren tradition. Although …

… expanded the scope of Marxist utopianism, proposing the utopian instinct as a fundamental
… suggested, better than any other theorist of the twentieth century, the possibilities of utopia. …

… as ‘anti-utopian’ there were utopian moments to 1989 that reflected wider globalization
utopias. … ingly dystopian and looked to nostalgic-utopian notions of community and safety. The …