Contemporary Utopian Struggles

Communities Between Modernism and Postmodernism

• Author(s): Saskia Poldervaart, Harrie Jansen, Beatrice Kesler,
• Publisher: Askant Academic Publishers
• Pages: 317
• ISBN_10: 9068611984
  ISBN_13: 9789068611984
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism , Political Science / Utopias , Social Science / Popular Culture , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

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Should members of communities strive for homogeneous, consistent values or can they accept heterogeneous, pluralistic ones? Do we need a shared utopia in order to establish intentional communities, or is the desire to create something different here and now sufficient? Such questions may be regarded in the context of a struggle between the changing, more modernist values of the sixties and those of the more postmodernist nineties. This book will stimulate further discussion about utopian thinking and utopian practices in these postmodern times.

Saskia Poldervaart is a senior lecturer in women's studies at the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. She was president of the International Communal Studies Association (ICSA) from 1995-1998. Harrie Jansen is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. Beatrice Kesler is a senior lecturer at Wageningen University.