Imagining a New Eden in the Nuclear West
Arcadia, Spring 2020, no. 9
Aliases:
utopia
Green Visions: A Dialogue
Dorothee Brantz and Avi Sharma discuss the history of green urban visions, looking at historical precedents of the modern green city.
Unser America [Our America]
This film follows a woman who returns to modern, neoliberal Nicaragua to find the Sandinista woman soldier she filmed during the armed rebellion over two decades earlier.
From Anti-Abundance to Anti-Anti-Abundance: Scarcity, Abundance, and Utopia in Two Science Fiction Writers
This essay looks at science fiction works by Philip K. Dick and Ursula Le Guin from the 1970s in which visions of scarcity are both critiques of abundance and utopian gestures. Today, Ramírez argues, scarcity has lost its critical power.
Masdar City: The Soon-To-Be “Eco City”
The UAE has appointed a company named Masdar to create the most environmentally sustainable city in the world that may serve as a model for future generations.
Regions:
"Tensions and Dilemmas of Ecotopianism"
This paper examines some of many tensions associated with the utopian propensity that underlies much thinking and action in radical environmentalism.
Utopian Struggle: Preconceptions and Realities of Intentional Communities
Most people know little about intentional communities, and what they think they know is often wrong. Metcalfe discusses some of these preconceptions and why they are inaccurate.
Ideals and Practices of European Ecovillages
In the context of the current global economic crisis, it seems that people are increasingly looking for more sustainable ways of living. Ecovillages provide people with a way to pursue a more sustainable lifestyle.
Realizing Utopia? Reconstructing its Normative Potential
A utopian narrative must be understood not so much as a concrete plan or set of policy recommendations, but as a call to decide for oneself about the plausibility and the desirability of the postulated ideals.
A Culture of Sustainability
How do the three pillars of sustainability—environment, economy, and society—come together in the daily routines of a society? Research in Community (RIC) has given itself the goal of building a network to investigate and promote a culture of sustainability.