This book offers an original account of the good life in late modernity through a uniquely
sociological lens. It considers the various ways that social and cultural factors can …

In a postmodern world of globalised capital, how does the concept of Orientalism inform
understandings of cultural exchange? In this detailed and wide-ranging examination, Arab …

According to the 2006 Census (Statistics New Zealand, 2007), more than one-fifth of the
New Zealand population is born overseas. Immigrants play an active role in New Zealand …

Utopia is a highly contested term. It is commonly understood as an imaginary social order
whose idyllic delineation makes its prospects of accomplishment as remote as the island of …

This article discusses the development of Borderless Village, a multiethnic town in the
planned industrial city of Ansan, South Korea. Despite the original vision of Ansan as a …

Abstract This chapter examines Nihad Sharif's The Inhabitants of the Second World (1977),
arguing that his text illuminates a new cosmopolitan view of utopia, which is groundbreaking …

This article aims to bridge the literature of modern social imaginaries with the growing study
of modernity in International Relations. Employing a Taylorian conceptual framework and …

Abstract Many American and Iraqi cultural reactions to Gulf War I and Gulf War II, including
the texts selected for this story, expressed the dystopian consequences of these wars …

Utopia is a highly contested term. It is commonly understood as an imaginary social order
whose idyllic delineation makes its prospects of accomplishment as remote as the island of …

This thesis aims to challenge popular conceptions of the 'good life'with an analysis of
contentment and happiness through the lens of social and critical theory. As an alternative to …