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Utopia as heresy: hope, possibility, and the cultural imaginary
Description
The utopian impulse represents hope for another world; a reflection of the injustices inherent to the hegemonic order that are understood as natural, necessary, desirable, and unchangeable. Those who challenge this orthodoxy are heretical utopians; pioneers of the counterintuitive who explore the types of relations that rather than reproduce the dominant order, shatter it, and manifest new ones based upon principles of justice. This project explores how ideological mechanisms of control embedded within the hegemonic fascist imaginary landscape of the United States render the visions of emancipatory social movements, that challenge dominant ways of knowing and being, as the "merely utopian" so as to instrumentalize the behavior of civil-society towards the maintenance of the established social order and the suppression of alternatives (Gordon 2004). In a rapidly changing world reeling under the pressures of late-stage capitalism, it is essential for those who value social and political justice to incessantly cultivate the cultural imaginary so as to shift the boundaries of what types of social relations are possible, feasible, and desirable through the process of struggle in heretical spaces.
Date Created
2015
Contributors
- Brown, Andrew (Author)
- Quan, H.L.T. (Thesis advisor)
- Lauderdale, Pat (Committee member)
- Romero, Mary (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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Resource Type
Extent
vii, 123 pages
Language
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.29910
Statement of Responsibility
by Andrew Brown
Description Source
Retrieved on Aug. 6, 2015
Level of coding
full
Note
Partial requirement for: M.S., Arizona State University, 2015
Note type
thesis
Includes bibliographical references (pages 118-122)
Note type
bibliography
Field of study: Justice studies
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- 2021-08-30 01:28:57
- 2 years 7 months ago
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