Conversations on Utopia: Cultural and Communication Practices

ISBN-13: 9783631820339 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 244 str.

Miriam Bait;Claudia Gualtieri

Opis

The book is an interdisciplinary conversation on utopia clustered around cultural and communication practises that are presented as political and ethical projects for today. It raises questions for intellectual work and invites a revision of the forms of knowledge production for the development of critical thinking.

Spis treści

Foreword

Introduction

In Search of Optimism

In Theory

How and Why to Make Space for Utopia in Times of Shipwreck: The Responsibility of the Playwright

Utopian Projections: Urban Spells against the Fury of Exile

The Light-Utopia of Cezanne (Errantry into the Sun)

Cultural Practices

Calling for an End to Indefinite Detention: The Spatial Politics of Refugee Tales

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea': Humanitarian Missions in the Mediterranean

Contested Memories and Acts of Counter-Commemoration as Temporary Utopian Spaces

Heterotopian Spaces of Feminist Self-Enunciation in Anita Desai's Writings

Resetting the Compass from North to the Souths: Utopian and Dystopian Terrains Surveyed by La Macchina Sognante

Communication Practices

Happiness, Spirituality and Sustainable Development

Gender-inclusive Language as Utopia? German and Italian in Comparison

Augmented Communication through 3D Virtual Reality

Travelling across 'Intensities of Blue beyond very bright Blue': The Language of Dystopian Journeys

O autorze

Miriam Bait is an assistant professor and senior lecturer in English language and translation at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Milan, Italy, where she teaches language and communication-related courses.

Claudia Gualtieri is an assistant professor and senior lecturer in English literature. She teaches Anglophone cultures, postcolonial studies and cultural studies at the Department of Language Mediation and Intercultural Communication, University of Milan.