Glimpses Of Utopia

Author : Jess Scully
Publisher : Pantera Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781925700770

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Glimpses of Utopia by Jess Scully Pdf

It's hard to be excited about the future right now. Climate change is accelerating; inequality is growing; politics is polarised; institutions designed to protect us are strained; technology is disrupting the world of work. We need to upgrade the operating systems of our society. Jess Scully asks, What can we do? The answer is: plenty! All over the world, people are refusing the business-as-usual mindset and putting humans back into the civic equation, reimagining work and care, finance and government, urban planning and communication, to make them better and fairer for all. Meet the care workers reclaiming control in India and Lebanon, the people turning slums into safe havens in Kenya and Bangladesh, and champions of people-powered digital democracy in Iceland and Taiwan. There are radical bankers funding renewable energy in the USA and architects redesigning real estate in Australia, new payment systems in Italy and the Philippines that keep money in local communities, and innovators redesigning taxation to cut pollution and incentivise creative solutions. Glimpses of Utopia is a call for optimism. Humans everywhere are rising up to confront our challenges with creativity, resilience and compassion. Harnessing technology and imagination, we can reshape our world to be fair and sustainable. This book shows us how.

Author : Jess Scully
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0369362322

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Glimpses of Utopia by Jess Scully Pdf

It's hard to be excited about the future right now. Climate change is accelerating; inequality is growing; politics is polarised; institutions designed to protect us are strained; technology is disrupting the world of work. We need to upgrade the operating systems of our society. Jess Scully asks, What can we do? The answer is: plenty! All over the world, people are refusing the business-as-usual mindset and putting humans back into the civic equation, reimagining work and care, finance and government, urban planning and communication, to make them better and fairer for all. Meet the care workers reclaiming control in India and Lebanon, the people turning slums into safe havens in Kenya and Bangladesh, and champions of people-powered digital democracy in Iceland and Taiwan. There are radical bankers funding renewable energy in the USA and architects redesigning real estate in Australia, new payment systems in Italy and the Philippines that keep money in local communities, and innovators redesigning taxation to cut pollution and incentivise creative solutions. Glimpses of Utopia is a call for optimism. Humans everywhere are rising up to confront our challenges with creativity, resilience and compassion. Harnessing technology and imagination, we can reshape our world to be fair and sustainable. This book shows us how.

Author : JESS. SCULLY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1038730155

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GLIMPSES OF UTOPIA by JESS. SCULLY Pdf

Author : George Walker
Publisher : John Catt
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781398382800

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Glimpses of Utopia: A lifetime's education by George Walker Pdf

George Walker was director general of the International Baccalaureate and visiting professor in the University of Bath. In this collection of autobiographical essays he describes some defining moments in his distinguished career in education. In schools, of course, but also in the harvest fields of Essex and the Paleolithic cave at Lascaux; behind the Iron Curtain in Czechoslovakia; on the alpine ski slopes; in the concert hall and in the footsteps of Cecil Rhodes in southern Africa; in Baghdad and in Bosnia, there have been many unexpected lessons to learn.

Author : Jessica Namakkal
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231552295

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Unsettling Utopia by Jessica Namakkal Pdf

After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, there remained five scattered territories governed by the French imperial state. It was not until 1962 that France fully relinquished control. Once decolonization took hold across the subcontinent, Western-led ashrams and utopian communities remained in and around the former French territory of Pondicherry—most notably the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and the Auroville experimental township, which continue to thrive and draw tourists today. Unsettling Utopia presents a new account of the history of twentieth-century French India to show how colonial projects persisted beyond formal decolonization. Through the experience of the French territories, Jessica Namakkal recasts the relationships among colonization, settlement, postcolonial sovereignty, utopianism, and liberation, considering questions of borders, exile, violence, and citizenship from the margins. She demonstrates how state-sponsored decolonization—the bureaucratic process of transferring governance from an imperial state to a postcolonial state—rarely aligned with local desires. Namakkal examines the colonial histories of the Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville, arguing that their continued success shows how decolonization paradoxically opened new spaces of settlement, perpetuating imperial power. Challenging conventional markers of the boundaries of the colonial era as well as nationalist narratives, Unsettling Utopia sheds new light on the legacies of colonialism and offers bold thinking on what decolonization might yet mean.

Author : José Esteban Muñoz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814757284

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Cruising Utopia by José Esteban Muñoz Pdf

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Author : P. Hayden,C. el-Ojeili
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230233607

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Globalization and Utopia by P. Hayden,C. el-Ojeili Pdf

Taking aim at the belief in utopia's demise, this collection of original essays offers a new look at the vibrant renewal of utopianism emerging in response to the challenges of globalization. It consider questions of hope and transformation associated with the utopian desire for social change.

Author : Gregory Claeys
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Utopias
ISBN : 0500251746

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Searching for Utopia by Gregory Claeys Pdf

An illustrated history of a perennially powerful idea: the quest for the ideal society from classical times to the present day.

Author : Ingo Cornils
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Science fiction films
ISBN : 9781640140356

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Beyond Tomorrow by Ingo Cornils Pdf

Shows German Science Fiction's connections with utopian thought, and how it attempts Zukunftsbewältigung: coping with an uncertain but also unwritten future.

Author : Edward Rothstein,Herbert Muschamp,Martin Marty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780195144611

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Visions of Utopia by Edward Rothstein,Herbert Muschamp,Martin Marty Pdf

Traces the history of utopian thinking, covering the reasons for their failures and how they are still being pursued.

Author : Amelinda Bérubé
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781492657088

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The Dark Beneath the Ice by Amelinda Bérubé Pdf

Black Swan meets Paranormal Activity in this compelling ghost story about a former dancer whose grip on reality slips when she begins to think a dark entity is stalking her. Something is wrong with Marianne. It's not just that her parents have finally split up. Or that life hasn't been the same since she quit dancing. Or even that her mother has checked herself into the hospital. She's losing time. Doing things she would never do. And objects around her seem to break whenever she comes close. Something is after her. And the only one who seems to believe her is the daughter of a local psychic. But their first attempt at an exorcism calls down the full force of the thing's rage. It demands Marianne give back what she stole. Whatever is haunting her, it wants everything she has—everything it's convinced she stole. Marianne must uncover the truth that lies beneath it all before the nightmare can take what it thinks it's owed, leaving Marianne trapped in the darkness of the other side.

Author : van Klink, Bart,Soniewicka, Marta,van den Broeke, Leon
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781803921402

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Utopian Thinking in Law, Politics, Architecture and Technology by van Klink, Bart,Soniewicka, Marta,van den Broeke, Leon Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This innovative book explores the role of utopian thinking in law and politics, including alternative forms of social engineering, such as technology and architecture. Building on Levitas’ Utopia as Method, the topic of utopia is addressed within the book from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Author : Jill Dolan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780472025572

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Utopia in Performance by Jill Dolan Pdf

"Jill Dolan is the theatre's most astute critic, and this new book is perhaps her most important. Utopia in Performance argues with eloquence and insight how theatre makes a difference, and in the process demonstrates that scholarship matters, too. It is a book that readers will cherish and hold close as a personal favorite, and that scholars will cite for years to come." ---David Román, University of Southern California What is it about performance that draws people to sit and listen attentively in a theater, hoping to be moved and provoked, challenged and comforted? In Utopia in Performance, Jill Dolan traces the sense of visceral, emotional, and social connection that we experience at such times, connections that allow us to feel for a moment not what a better world might look like, but what it might feel like, and how that hopeful utopic sentiment might become motivation for social change. She traces these "utopian performatives" in a range of performances, including the solo performances of feminist artists Holly Hughes, Deb Margolin, and Peggy Shaw; multicharacter solo performances by Lily Tomlin, Danny Hoch, and Anna Deavere Smith; the slam poetry event Def Poetry Jam; The Laramie Project; Blanket, a performance by postmodern choreographer Ann Carlson; Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman; and Deborah Warner's production of Medea starring Fiona Shaw. While the book richly captures moments of "feeling utopia" found within specific performances, it also celebrates the broad potential that performance has to provide a forum for being human together; for feeling love, hope, and commonality in particular and historical (rather than universal and transcendent) ways.

Author : by H. G. Wells
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781433098482

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A Modern Utopia by by H. G. Wells Pdf

Author : John Bell
Publisher : Pantera Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780648748892

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Some Achieve Greatness by John Bell Pdf

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them." William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Around the globe people have been crying out for "Leadership": demanding it, begging for it. From the farcical spectacle of short-lived Australian prime ministers shoving each other through the revolving door to scandalous failures of governance in Australia's financial institutions and the moral abyss in church leadership, to the mess of Brexit and the chaotic unpredictability of the Trump administration, and now the greatest leadership challenge since World War II: Covid-19. Stable, reliable, sensible leadership has been in short supply. We often resort to the word 'Shakespearean' to explain our dramatic times. And indeed, we can learn a lot from Shakespeare about leadership – good and bad. The world's greatest analyst of human behaviour and motivation; a man well acquainted with crises of leadership in tumultuous times; a man whose dry wit, bottomless empathy enabled him to encapsulate countless valuable life lessons that still ring with relevance today. As someone who has spent a good deal of the last seventy-something years studying, performing and directing Shakespeare's plays, John Bell has absorbed quite a few valuable lessons in life, character and leadership from the bard, and then put these to good use running two successful theatre companies. Some Achieve Greatness contains invaluable lessons on leadership, drawn from John Bell's extensive relationship with Shakespeare and his own experience as a cultural leader, illustrated with an irreverent and contemporary set of cartoons by Cathy Wilcox.