This article draws upon the utopian studies literature to integrate two strands of
contemporary consumer research, the study of place and space and the analysis of …

Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design
and planning of its futuristic cityscape. This anthropological study of the development of the …

This paper examines the ways in which utopianism permeates both radical and reformist
environmentalism. Utopianism has created'ecotopia', the radical environmentalist's utopia …

In this timely book, Marranci critically surveys the available theories on Islamic
fundamentalism and extremism. Rejecting essentialism and cultural reductionism, the book …

Based on four years anthropological research within prisons and Muslim communities in the
UK, this book offers a unique discussion of the relationship between the experience of …

This paper examines some of many tensions associated with the utopian propensity that
underlies much thinking and action in radical environmentalism. They include the tensions …

This interpretive study introduces the field of utopian studies and explores its relevance in re-
conceptualising certain aspects of consumer research. Making reference to a longitudinal …

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of communism in the former
Soviet bloc, the concept of utopia was blighted with the stigma of Stalinist totalitarianism …

Through a comparative analysis of four long-lived intentional communities in New Zealand,
this thesis examines the extent to which each one has sustained, adapted or abandoned its …

The utopian impulse is the human longing to build the best of all possible worlds imaginable
through social theories, policy discourses, legal texts, and institutional structures. The …