Transgressive Utopianism

.This volume honors Lucy Sargisson's contribution to the field of utopian studies.

In 2014, when Lucy Sargisson was promoted to professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, at the University of Nottingham, she became the first and, so far, only, professor of utopian studies. This choice symbolized the centrality of utopianism to her life, thought, and educational practice. In three books, each in their own way groundbreaking, a fourth book co-authored by one of us, and in important articles, her work falls into four primary areas: political theory, feminism, environmentalism, and intentional communities, with much of her work intersecting two, three, or even all four. And in all her work, she brings the lens of utopianism to bear on the subject and, in doing so, illuminates both utopianism and the subject at hand. The volume honors Sargisson's contributions to the field of utopian studies, with contributions by Ibtisam Ahmed, Raffaella Baccolini, David M. Bell, Suryamayi Clarence-Smith, Chris Coates, Elena Colombo, Davina Cooper, Rhiannon Firth, Ruth Levitas, Sarah Lohmann, Almudena Machado-Jiménez, Dunja M. Mohr, Tom Moylan, Robyn Muir, José Reis, Lyman Tower Sargent, Lucy Sargisson, Simon Spiegel, Maria Varsam, and Laura Winter.

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Raffaella Baccolini is Professor of British and American literature and gender studies at the University of Bologna, Forlì Campus. Lyman Tower Sargent is Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and was the founding editor of Utopian Studies (1990-2004).

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CONTENTS: Raffaella Baccolini/Lyman Tower Sargent: Introduction .Utopian Literature Tom Moylan: Lucy Sargisson: Becoming (a) Utopian Sarah Lohmann: «What isn't living dies»: Utopia as Living Organism in Joanna Russ's The Female Man and Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time Maria Varsam: A Quantum of Hope? J.M. Coetzee's (Post)Colonial Dystopia Life & Times of Michael K Almudena Machado-Jiménez: Bleak Bodies: Genetically Engineered Women in Louise O'Neill's (Anti-)Utopian Patriarchal Satire Only Ever Yours Dunja M. Mohr: Entangled Utopianism in the Anthropocene José Eduardo Reis: Literary Utopianism and Ecological Literacy .Intentional Communities Chris Coates: On Being Studied: A Utopian Remembers Suryamayi Clarence-Smith: Auroville: An Experiment in Spiritually Prefigurative Utopian Practice .Film and Television Simon Spiegel: The Utopia of the Holy Land. The Zionist Propaganda Film Land of Promise as Utopian Text Laura Winter: «Trial and Error» Mediating Estrangement in the Quest for Utopia in The Walking Dead (2010Present) .Teaching Ibtisam Ahmed, David M. Bell, Elena Colombo, and Robyn Muir: Utopia, Pedagogy, and Care: A Conversation Rhiannon Firth: Gratitude for a Utopian Friendship .Responses Davina Cooper: Afterword Lucy Sargisson: The Strangest Place: Thoughts on Being a Guest at Your Own Funeral, or «Regrets, I Have a Few».