Microutopias and Everyday Hope (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Grønstad, Asbjørn Skarsvåg; Johannessen, Lene M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In eleven essays of scholarly inquiry encompassing a variety of disciplinary perspectives including literature, visual culture, and media studies, Microutopias and Everyday Hope illuminates the potential for alternative futures that resides in utopian thinking on smaller scales.

Reflecting on analyses of source material that ranges from entertainment media to concrete sites, contributors draw our attention to the important aesthetic details of everyday life that are increasingly drowned out in a landscape dominated by continuous polycrisis. Caught in late capitalism's relentless and dystopian march, they argue, any kind of future is necessarily predicated on utopian thinking in the present and must look beyond the spectacle of horror to draw on the hope that can be found in the smaller wins day to day.

Ultimately, this collection serves as an appeal to the crucial role the humanities can play in withstanding and moving past the contemporary societal fragmentation plaguing the globe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666980523
• Artikelnr.: 75760609

Autorenporträt

Asbjørn Grønstad is Professor of Visual Culture in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Lene Johannessen is Professor of American Literature in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Microutopias and Everyday Hope
Asbjørn Grønstad (University of Bergen, Norway) and Lene Johannessen
(University of Bergen, Norway)
2. Unrest and the Light of Utopia: Anarchism and Archaeology
Henrik Gustafsson (Arctic University of Norway, Norway)
3. "Don't you tempt me with perfection": Music, Death, and Utopia
Zoltan Varga (Western Norway University, Norway)
4. Transnational Figurations of (Micro)utopia in C. N. Adichie's
Americanah and K. Waclawiak's How to Get Into the Twin Palms
Tijana Przulj (University of Bergen, Norway)
5. How to Imagine Microutopias
Anders Lysne (University of Bergen, Norway)
6. Micro-Ecotopic Power Lines in Fantasy Literature
Birger Solheim (University of Bergen, Norway)
7. Microutopian Ethics
Asbjørn Grønstad
8. Brilliant Stacks of Cans: The Microutopian Impulse in White Noise
Øyvind Vågnes (University of Bergen, Norway)
9. A Working-Class Return to (Micro-)Utopia? Presentism, Bodies, and
Nostalgia in Miranda July's Kajillionaire
Henriette Rørdal (University of Bergen, Norway)
10. The Politics of Everyday Life: Orwell and the Dispossessed
Randi Koppen (University of Bergen, Norway)
11. Everyday Utopias: Compasses of Hope
Lene Johannessen
12. The Possibility of an Island: The White Lotus as Utopian Heterotopia
Janne Stigen Drangsholt (University of Stavanger, Norway)
About the Contributors
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