Search Results - "Utopian Studies"

‘Promising Spaces’: universities’ critical-moral mission and educative function by McLean, Monica

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The decolonial killjoy: the British Raj as a space of political utopia by Ahmed, Ibtisam

“…In doing so, I not only interrogate the past of the Raj, but also embed decolonisation at the heart of Utopian Studies, hoping to create a killjoy moment that disrupts the status quo.…”
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Towards a nomadic utopianism: Gilles Deleuze and the good place that is no place by Bell, David Martin

“…This thesis utilises the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze alongside theory from the field of 'utopian studies' in order to think through how the concepts of utopia and utopianism might be relevant in an age that seems to have given up on the future. …”
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Alternative to what? Alternative how? A Study of Multi-Public Educational and Cultural Spaces in England since the Late Nineteenth Century by Colin, Anna

“…Drawing on literature from the fields of education, geography, architecture, art theory, and critical and utopian studies, and on empirical and situated research including interviews, the thesis works to assemble genealogies, trans-geographical connections, and narratives of entanglement between education, culture, community, and space, before exploring possible approaches to elude the fate of alternatives morphing into what they originally stood against.…”
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Staging the dark times: contemporary dystopian theatre in the UK 2000-2019 by De Simoni, Laura

“…By bringing together concepts from Utopian Studies and critical approaches to drama and performance studies, I develop a specialist, innovative framework for the analysis of dystopian theatre. …”
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