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A Ecopedagogia traduz para o campo da Educação as mais importantes discussões realizadas na atualidade sobre questões ambientais. Ecopedagogia, ou pedagogia da terra, ela se afirma como um espaço em que todas as utopias ganham nova forma. Neste artigo nos propomos a discutir o estatuto da Ecopedagogia enquanto espaço da utopia, a partir da análise de suas interfaces com a utopia de Marcuse, do Século XX, e de Schiller, um dos teóricos do Romantismo alemão. Através dessa discussão será possível concluir que existe uma nítida relação entre Ecopedagogia e utopia, mas também entre Ecopedagogia e interesses do capital globalizado e por isso deve ser vista sempre com reservas.

THE UNPRECEDENTED DRAMA OF RECENT EVENTS IN THE COMMUNIST WORLD RESIDES IN THE FACT THAT THIS HAS NOT BEEN MERELY A CRISIS OF ONE REGIME OR THE DEFEAT OF A GREAT, INVINCIBLE POWER. IT HAS BEEN THE TOTAL OVERTURN OF THE GREATEST POLITICAL UTOPIA IN HISTORY. THE FIRST POLITICAL UTOPIA THAT ENDEAVORED TO PASS FROM THE REALM OF THEORY INTO THAT OF FACTS, NOT ONLY DID NOT MATERIALIZE BUT IS BEING OVERTHROWN IN THOSE COUNTRIES THAT PUT IT TO THE TEST.

Abstract
The concept of utopia is from the moment of its inception umbilically tied to modern conceptions of progress that have legitimized settler colonialism, the genocide of Indigenous peoples, the violent subordination of women and racial and sexual "others," ecocide, and a "grow or die" form of civilization that is now threatening the very existence of all life on the planet. Drawing on the critical socialist insights of Gustav Landauer, Ernst Bloch, and Walter Benjamin, and the "non-Euclidean" utopianism of Ursula K. Le Guin, this article challenges the common association between utopia and culturally dominant ideas of progress and outlines a temporally and spatially grounded alternative approach to the study of utopias suitable to a post-anthropocentric world. The aims of the analysis are at once scholarly and practical: scholarly, inasmuch as it develops conceptual tools conducive to fresh interpretations of utopian texts and practices; and practical, insofar as it vitalizes utopian thought and action by illuminating hitherto obscure aspects of utopianism's transformative potential.

The article begins with a discussion of some Christian & secular ideas about utopia. It shows that after the Enlightenment, it became difficult to conceptualize true utopias, while postmodernism has been preoccupied with dystopian visions of the future. The ambiguous nature of utopianism is reflected particularly in science fiction, which powerfully reflects contemporary aspirations & anxieties, & this ambiguity is here explored with special reference to the work of the novelist Ursula Le Guin. 7 References. Adapted from the source document.

European Utopia is post-national, & not anti-national. The nation is the guarantor of Europe's constitutional community. European integration is indeed designed as a contract. Today, Europe is a state- & citizen union, however, the democratic Europe is not a Europe of citizens. Efficient governance is demanded that should lead to homogeneity, but without affecting any national idiosyncrasies. The author concludes that Europe is not a goal, Europe is a process. This idea changes states & citizens, collectively & individually. This is the great civilizing accomplishment of the European project. E. Sanchez

El siguiente trabajo explora la posibilidad de un libertarianismo queer a partir de la comparación de la utopía libertaria con la utopía queer. Sostendré que la utopía libertaria de la no coacción ofrece un marco propicio para la expresión de las identidades queer, pues no tiene una concepción de sexualidad o de género predilecta. Asimismo, sostendré que el capitalismo —como sistema económico de la utopía libertaria— no resulta hostil a las reivindicaciones o aspiraciones de la utopía queer. Por ello, en la medida en que el capitalismo no supone ni requiere de la heterosexualidad obligatoria para su propio funcionamiento, la posibilidad de un libertarianismo queer es altamente plausible. Sin embargo, se identificarán algunas fuentes potenciales de conflicto entre ambas utopías. Esas asperezas solo pueden limarse si el libertarianismo amplía su concepto de voluntariedad. Concluiré que el matrimonio entre ambas utopías es posible, pero requiere de algunas concesiones mutuas.

ABSTRACT
In the introduction to the 2015 reprint of her classical Partial Visions, Angelika Bammer cites the pithy injunction of the American poet and feminist thinker Adrienne Rich: "We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth … the visions, and the thinking necessary to sustain, console, and alter human existence. … Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meaning; thinking itself will be transformed." Based on sustaining, consoling, and radically altering the present dire state of human existence, the author leads to two sets of initial arguments: Where Are We (in general), and What Are We (in particular) Doing Wrong. What follows are samples of possible answers, perhaps representative beyond themselves.