Dictionary of Alternatives

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Dictionary of Alternatives

Utopianism and Organization

Political ideologies and movements

Authors: Martin Parker, Valerie Fournier, Patrick Reedy

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Language: English

Published by: Zed Books

Published on: 18th July 2013

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 352 pages

ISBN: 9781848136472


Introduction

''There is no alternative to free market liberalism and managerialism'', is the orthodoxy of the twenty-first century. All too often, ordinary people across the world are being told that the problem of organization is already solved, or that it is being solved somewhere else, or that it need not concern them because they have no choices. This dictionary provides those who disagree with the evidence.

Content and Purpose

Using hundreds of entries and cross-references, it proves that there are many alternatives to the way that we currently organize ourselves. These alternatives could be expressed as fictional utopias, they could be excavated from the past, or they could be described in terms of the contemporary politics of anti-corporate protest, environmentalism, feminism and localism.

Overview

Part reference work, part source book, and part polemic, this dictionary provides a rich understanding of the ways in which fiction, history and today’s politics provide different ways of thinking about how we can and should organize for the coming century.

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