Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-268) and index.
Introduction : Reflections on the demise and renewal of utopia in a global age / Patrick Hayden and Chamsy el-Ojeili -- Placing utopia : some classical images / Peter Beilharz and Christine Ellem -- 'Globalization' as collective representation : the new dream of a cosmopolitan civil sphere / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- Two post-Marxisms: beyond post-socialism? / Chamsy el-Ojeili -- Globalization, reflexive utopianism, and the cosmopolitan social imaginary / Patrick Hayden -- After utopia : notes on an ethics of newness / Leela Gandhi -- Postsecularism : a new global debate / Gregor McLennan -- After 1989 : globalization, normalization, and utopia / Larry Ray -- Made in America : the unsustainable all-consuming global free-market 'utopia' / Barry Smart -- Islamutopia, (post)modernity and the multitude / Arshin Adib-Moghaddam -- Utopias without transcendence? Post-left anarchy, immediacy and utopian energy / Andrew Robinson and Simon Tormey -- Libertarian cyber-utopianism and global digital networks / Lincoln Dahlberg -- (Con)temporary utopian spaces / Giorel Curran -- Glocalization and the new local transnationalisms : real utopias in liminal spaces / Ronaldo Munck -- The grandchildren of Marx and Coca-Cola : Lefebvre, utopia and the 'recuperation' of everyday life / Michael E. Gardiner -- Concluding reflections / Patrick Hayden and Chamsy el-Ojeili.
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Taking aim at the belief in utopia's demise, this collection of essays offers a look at the renewal of utopianism emerging in response to the challenges of globalization. It considers questions of hope and transformation associated with the utopian desire for social change.