Diminishing hope and utopian thinking: faculty leadership under neoliberal regime

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Lynn Bosetti ◽  
Troy Heffernan
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Leadership ◽  
Utopian Thinking

scholarly journals Internet users’ utopian/dystopian imaginaries of society in the digital age: Theorizing critical digital literacy and civic engagement

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110186
Author(s):  
Gianfranco Polizzi
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Engagement ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Utopian Studies ◽  
Utopian Thinking ◽  
Literacy Research

This article proposes a theoretical framework for how critical digital literacy, conceptualized as incorporating Internet users’ utopian/dystopian imaginaries of society in the digital age, facilitates civic engagement. To do so, after reviewing media literacy research, it draws on utopian studies and political theory to frame utopian thinking as relying dialectically on utopianism and dystopianism. Conceptualizing critical digital literacy as incorporating utopianism/dystopianism prescribes that constructing and deploying an understanding of the Internet’s civic potentials and limitations is crucial to pursuing civic opportunities. The framework proposed, which has implications for media literacy research and practice, allows us to (1) disentangle users’ imaginaries of civic life from their imaginaries of the Internet, (2) resist the collapse of critical digital literacy into civic engagement that is understood as inherently progressive, and (3) problematize polarizing conclusions about users’ interpretations of the Internet as either crucial or detrimental to their online engagement.

Pragmatism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin McKenna ◽  
Maurice Hamington
Keyword(s):  
Care Ethics ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
American Pragmatism ◽  
Jane Addams ◽  
Utopian Thinking ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Intellectual ◽  
Feminist Work

This chapter offers an account of central issues and themes in feminist philosophical engagements with the uniquely American intellectual tradition often referred to as American pragmatism. After introducing pragmatism, the foundational feminist work and influence of Jane Addams is presented, followed by a discussion of other noteworthy contributors to feminist pragmatism. Significant themes in feminist pragmatism including race and identity, epistemology, care ethics, utopian thinking, and environmentalism are explored. The chapter addresses the extent to which feminist work has changed or entered the mainstream of the American pragmatism, as well as current and future directions of feminist pragmatism. In addition to offering a history of the development of feminist pragmatism, the chapter considers how feminism is a resource for pragmatism and how pragmatism is a resource for feminist philosophy.

The Cold War: Lessons and Legacies

2010 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Halliday
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Utopian Thinking ◽  
The Cold War

AbstractThe collapse of European communism two decades ago appeared to determine, once and for all, the fate of radical socialism in the modern world and to draw a line under the forty years of Cold War that had now ended. In an overview of both the course and end of this global confrontation, and of the legacy of communism itself, this article argues that many of the analytical and social dimensions of the Cold War have still to be adequately addressed, and that, while traditional Marxism has indeed been discredited, the need for critical and, where pertinent, utopian thinking remains as relevant as ever.

scholarly journals Crisis Civilizatoria y Utopías: El Buen vivir como posibilidad

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Griselda Günther ◽  
Tania Arroyo
Keyword(s):  
Current Crisis ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Living Well ◽  
Utopian Thinking

ResumenEste trabajo tiene por objetivo reflexionar sobre tres cuestiones: ¿Qué son la utopía y el pensamiento utópico?, ¿qué función cumplen ante la crisis civilizatoria actual? y ¿qué tan pertinente es pensar hoy en propuestas como la de Buen vivir como utopía? Para ello se expone brevemente cómo se entienden la utopía y el pensamiento utópico, recuperando el trabajo de algunos autores que se consideran, en este caso, claves. El objetivo es encontrar características comunes que se conjugan para construir una noción actual de utopía y de pensamiento utópico. Posteriormente, se desarrolla la idea de necesidad de las utopías ante el momento crítico actual por el cual atraviesa el planeta y la humanidad. Finalmente, concluimos poniendo en diálogo la utopía y la crisis civilizatoria a través de la propuesta emergente del Buen vivir como alternativa al desarrollo y sus potencialidades.Palabras-clave: Utopía, Buen vivir, Crisis Civilizatoria, Pensamiento Utópico, Vivir Bien Crise Civilizacional e Utopias: Boa Vida como uma PossibilidadeResumoEste trabalho tem como objetivo refletir sobre três questões: o que são a utopia e o pensamento utópico? Que papel eles cumprem na atual crise civilizacional? E quão relevante é hoje pensar em propostas como a do Buen vivir como utopia? Para isso, brevemente se expõe como utopia e pensamento utópico são compreendidos, recuperando o trabalho de alguns autores que são considerados, neste caso, essenciais. O objetivo é encontrar características comuns que se conjugam para criar uma noção atual de utopia e de pensamento utópico. Posteriormente, se desenvolve a ideia da necessidade de utopias diante do momento crítico que atravessa o planeta e a humanidade atualmente. Por fim, concluímos, colocando em diálogo a utopia e a crise civilizacional, justamente através da proposta do Buen vivir como uma alternativa ao desenvolvimento e suas potencialidades.Palavras-chave: Utopia, Buen Vivir, Crise Civilizacional, Pensamento Utópico, Vivir Bien The Crisis of Civilization and Utopias: “Buen Vivir” as a PossibilityAbstractThis work aims to reflect three main issues: the meaning of utopia and utopian thinking; the role they play in the current crisis of civilization; and how pertinent is to think today on proposals as Buen vivir (living well) or utopia. In order to feed these discussions, we briefly describe how utopia and utopian thinking are understood by recovering the work of some key authors. Our main objective is to find common characteristics that will allow us to combine and propose an updated notion of utopia and utopian thinking. Subsequently, we elaborate on utopia’s necessity for current world and humanity crisis. Finally, we conclude our discussion by addressing utopia and the civilization crisis through the emerging proposal of Buen vivir as an alternative for development and potentiality.Keywords: Utopia, Utopian Thinking, Buen Vivir, Vivir Bien, Living Well, Crisis of Civilization 

Anticapitalist Utopias and Neotopias

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Mulgan
Keyword(s):  
William Morris ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Alternative Futures ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Utopian Thinking

This chapter studies the radical alternatives that can be found in the traditions of utopian thinking that have offered fully formed alternatives to a flawed present, from Thomas More to Ursula LeGuin, and from William Morris to Ivan Efremov. Utopias are one of the ways societies imagine alternative futures, and many utopians put their ideas into practice too, creating islands of the future. Then as now they were healthy antidotes to the lazy pessimism which claims that all attempts at progress are futile. If utopias are worlds where predators have been eliminated, dystopias are ones where they rule. But utopias both promise too much and deliver too little, their greatest weakness now as in the past being that they lack an account of how change will happen.

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