I am immensely grateful to Colin Cremin. Never overbearing, always critically engaged and
pushing me when I needed to be pushed. The work undertaken in these pages was possible …

The return of interest in socialism and the critique of capitalism make Beyond Post-Socialism
a timely work. The book explores the critical-theoretical and utopian contribution of a number …

It is common to hear that we live in unique, turbulent and crisis-ridden times and this
turbulence, transformation and crisis are said to be deeply significant-perhaps threatening …

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 …

Marxism grows from modest local origins to serious global reach, in east and west alike. This
chapter begins at the Marxian source, leading onto the bifurcation between classical social …

In our contemporary period of crisis and flux, the ability to envisage and struggle for better
modes of social being—ie utopianism—has seemingly never been more urgent, or more …

The democratic failure of the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN), in their
guidance and management of the Nicaraguan revolutionary process, has been the subject …

In this chapter, el-Ojeili explores the scholarly treatment of utopia and utopianism.
Examining key debates around the connections between utopia and science, ideology …

Resistant discourses such as feminism, anarchism and environmentalism can be read as
assertions that social life could be arranged and experienced in ways other than how …

The notion of “extremism,” we argue, can be understood as an element of the contemporary
liberal consensus or “post-politics.” In particular, the anti-utopian character of extremism …