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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Is it possible to create a better world? Can this be done without the image of an ideal world to guide us? What would such a world be like? There has been a marked renewal of interest in utopian thought, as the exposed economic, social and political dysfunctions of modern society have forced us to re-examine our visions of the future. Yet the wealth of utopian literature on which we could draw remains inaccessible or poorly understood. This book readdresses this imbalance, with a collection of essays, each centred on a key passage in a canonical utopian work that challenges the commonly accepted interpretation of that work and allows us to examine it with fresh insight. At the same time, by contextualising each passage within the text as a whole, readers are enabled to reflect on the meaning and reception of the work and on its significance in the history of utopian thought. Broad in scope and original in approach, this textbook is an encouragement to students and scholars alike to read the utopian classics afresh.

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Although the terms utopia and utopian are used in Spain, they are commonly understood as imaginary representations that are impossible to realize. Nevertheless, because of the political and financial crises that have affected all corners of the globe, utopia is now thriving in the media. It is especially linked to street protests, alternative movements, and Internet organizations that mobilize individuals and communities through consciousness-raising activities. This article very briefly outlines the "utopian" in Spain and attempts to offer an updated picture of utopian studies research groups in the country.

ABSTRACTThis article discusses the development and current state of utopian studies in Ireland. It frames utopian studies in the Irish context as an evolving interdisciplinary space, facilitating both innovations within established scholarly discussions and dialogues beyond received boundaries—including that between academic scholarship and social critique. Without any pretention to exhaustiveness, it surveys a number of areas of teaching and research in Irish higher education that actively engage with the open paradigm of utopian studies and indicates a number of currently live questions.

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Although the idea of utopia has always been intertwined with both the concept of maritime space and the Portuguese "myth-history," the Portuguese have never generated a truly utopian literary tradition. Still, close contact with French and English literature resulted in the production of some utopias and dystopias, which this article briefly describes. The article further explains how the funding model for academic research in Portugal has shaped the way the field of utopian studies has developed in the country.

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This article offers a conception of democratic education and an account of how that conception should inform our understanding of formal education for public schools. The goals of a democratic education are best secured by participating in self-government, as advocates of participatory democracy have always claimed. Broadly stated, those goals include encouraging and equipping individuals to become committed, self-governing, democratic citizens. More specifically, individuals gain through democratic participation political information and knowledge and, arguably, the skills, virtues, and normative commitments of democratic citizens. This conception of democratic education suggests in turn the desirability of what is here termed the democratic community school, in which students participate in the governance and pedagogy of their schools, the school and the local community it most directly serves become in various ways integrated, and the curriculum is politicized so as to advance democratic values and aspirations. The article concludes by identifying some of the key difficulties and obstacles that make the democratic school so difficult to achieve but also provides reasons for believing that working toward the utopian ideal of democratic schools is practically as well as normatively worthwhile.

Preface : an anarchic breeze -- On anti - Utopianism : more or less -- To shake the world off its hinges -- A longing that cannot be uttered -- Epilogue