Informed by feminist, Marxist, ethnographic, and post-structuralist frameworks, Utopia Method Vision makes a unique contribution to international debates in cultural, literary, sociological, and political studies of utopian theory, texts, and practices. The collection addresses the ways in which the contributors approach their study of the objects and practices of utopianism (understood as social anticipations and visions produced through texts and social experiments) and of how, in turn, those objects and practices have shaped their intellectual work in general and their research perspectives in particular. In so doing, the contributors develop a larger, self-critical look at the limits and potential of the entire paradigm by which utopianism is known, studied, critiqued, created, and received. Informed by feminist, Marxist, ethnographic, and post-structuralist frameworks, Utopia Method Vision makes a unique contribution to international debates in cultural, literary, sociological, and political studies of utopian theory, texts, and practices. The collection addresses the ways in which the contributors approach their study of the objects and practices of utopianism (understood as social anticipations and visions produced through texts and social experiments) and of how, in turn, those objects and practices have shaped their intellectual work in general and their research perspectives in particular. In so doing, the contributors develop a larger, self-critical look at the limits and potential of the entire paradigm by which utopianism is known, studied, critiqued, created, and received. Acknowledgements 9(4) Introduction: Utopia as Method 13(12) Tom Moylan Raffaella Baccolini The Curious Relationship Between Politics and Utopia 25(22) Lucy Sargisson The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society: Utopia as Method 47(22) Ruth Levitas Political Theory, Utopia, Post-Secularism 69(18) Vincent Geoghegan Rethinking Modern British Utopianism: Community and the Mastery of Desire 87(26) Gregory Claeys Here or Nowhere: Utopia, Modernity, and Totality 113(18) Phillip E. Wegner More Aliens Transforming Utopia: The Futures of Reader Response and Utopian Studies 131(28) Kenneth M. Roemer Finding Utopia in Dystopia: Feminism, Memory, Nostalgia, and Hope 159(32) Raffaella Baccolini Realizing Better Futures, Strong Thought for Hard Times 191(32) Tom Moylan Utopia and the Beloved Community 223(22) Naomi Jacobs Beyond This Horizon: Utopian Visions and Utopian Practice 245(22) Peter Fitting New Spaces for Utopian Politics: Theorizing About Identity, Community, and the World Conference Against Racism 267(34) Hoda M. Zaki Choosing Utopia: Utopianism as an Essential Element in Political Thought and Action 301(18) Lyman Tower Sargent Conclusion: Utopia as Vision 319(6) Raffaella Baccolini Tom Moylan Notes on Contributors 325(6) Index 331