Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life

by Kristen R. Ghodsee

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"A spirited tour through 2,500 years of utopian thinking and experiments to tease out better ways of imagining our domestic lives - from childrearing and housing to gender roles and private property - and a look at the communities putting these seemingly fanciful visions into practice today"--

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I got this book after hearing Prof. Ghodsee interviewed on "Refamulating" podcast - I had her as a Bowdoin professor twenty years ago and I immediately recognized her voice and her insistence on hope. I'd call this a lightly academic text - lots of facts and well-supported arguments but not at all dense or intimidating. She defines utopian thinking very broadly and looks at examples across the world and across human history of different ways people have built and structured community. She calls for grand hope and blue sky thinking, but also celebrates very accessible small ways people today are rethinking family and community. I really enjoyed this read, especially at this moment when I needed a hopeful text.
Un deslumbrante viaje a través de dos mil años de audaces ideas y experimentos utópicos que exploran otras formas de organizar nuestra vida cotidiana, y un viaje trotamundos a comunidades que ya están poniendo en práctica estas visiones en la actualidad. En el siglo vi a. C., el filósofo griego Pitágoras fundó una comuna en un pueblo costero del sur de la actual Italia. Allí, hombres y mujeres compartían sus posesiones, vivían como iguales y se dedicaban al estudio de las matemáticas y los misterios del universo. Desde entonces, los seres humanos hemos ideado mejores formas de organizar nuestra convivencia, compartir nuestras propiedades, criar a nuestros hijos y determinar quién forma parte de nuestras familias. Algunos de show more estos experimentos duraron un breve periodo de tiempo, pero otros siguen vigentes hoy en día. La pensadora feminista Kristen R. Ghodsee nos invita a explorar lugares que se han atrevido a reimaginar cómo podríamos vivir nuestra vida cotidiana: comunidades danesas de vivienda colaborativa que comparten las tareas y estrechan los lazos de vecindad, ecoaldeas matriarcales colombianas en las que las residentes cultivan todos sus alimentos o los microdistritos planificados en la Unión Soviética, que garantizan que todo lo que pueda necesitar un hogar esté cerca. Utopías cotidianas ofrece una visión radicalmente esperanzadora de cómo construir sociedades más satisfechas y conectadas. show less

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Kristen R. Ghodsee is professor of Russian and East European studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of six books on gender, socialism, and post socialism in Eastern Europe. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages and has appeared in publications such as Dissent, Foreign Affairs, Jacobin, The Baffler, the New show more Republic, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. show less

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Sociology, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Economics, History, Philosophy, Sexuality and Gender Studies
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335.02Society, Government, and CultureEconomicsSocialism and related systemsUtopian systems and schools
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HX630 .G46Social sciencesSocialism. Communism. AnarchismSocialism. Communism. AnarchismCommunism: Utopian socialism, collective
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