Globalization and Utopia: Critical Essays

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Reflections on the Demise and Renewal of Utopia in a Global Age; P.Hayden & C.el-Ojeili PART I: GLOBALIZATION AND UTOPIANISM: THEORETICAL CONNECTIONS Placing Utopia: Some Classical Images; P.Beilharz & C.Ellem 'Globalization' as Collective Representation: The New Dream of a Cosmopolitan Civil Sphere; J.C.Alexander Two Post-Marxisms: Beyond Post-Socialism?; C.el-Ojeili Globalization, Reflexive Utopianism, and the Cosmopolitan Social Imaginary; P.Hayden After Utopia: Notes on an Ethics of Newness; L.Gandhi Postsecularism: A New Global Debate; G.McLennan PART II: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON UTOPIAN VISIONS IN A GLOBAL AGE After 1989: Globalization, Normalization and Utopia; L.Ray Made in America: The Unsustainable All-Consuming Global Free-Market 'Utopia'; B.Smart Islamutopia, (Post)Modernity and the Multitude; A.Adib-Moghaddam Utopias Without Transcendence? Post-Left Anarchy, Immediacy and Utopian Energy; A.Robinson & S.Tormey Libertarian Cyber-Utopianism and Global Digital Networks; L.Dahlberg (Con)Temporary Utopian Spaces; G.Curran Glocalization and the New Local Transnationalisms: Real Utopias in Liminal Spaces; R.Munck The Grandchildren of Marx and Coca-Cola: Lefebvre, Utopia and the 'Recuperation' of Everyday Life; M.Gardiner Concluding Reflections; P.Hayden & C.el-Ojeili Bibliography