Essays about: "real utopias"

Found 4 essays containing the words real utopias.

  1. 1. Degrowth : a movement or a vision? Identifying barriers and potentials for a powerful agent of change for the socio-ecological transformation in Barcelona

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Sara Fromm; [2018]
    Keywords : degrowth; social movements; real utopias; Barcelona; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Our current economic system is inherently unsustainable. The ‘growth fetishism’ not only is the dominant paradigm of our economies, but goes way deeper into our understanding of how well-being is defined and can be improved. The concept of ‘degrowth’ tries to question this hegemony. READ MORE

  3. 2. Real utopias and dystopias from the Colombian Amazon : collective future scenarios under government & FARC-EP post-agreement period

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Danna Villada; [2017]
    Keywords : capabilities; indigenous peoples; peace-agreement; sustainability science; political ecology; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : After more than 50 years of internal armed conflict, the peace agreement between the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia- People’s Army (FARC-EP) raises both hope and concern. There are several opportunities for people, derived from wealth and land redistribution. READ MORE

  4. 3. Utopia renewed : transition to renewable energy in the Netherlands : a new solution, a new agent, a new pathway

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Joep Karskens; [2016]
    Keywords : sustainability science; energy co-operatives; Real Utopia; energy transition; climate movement; movement strategy; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In the face of climate change, a fast global switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy is imperative. In the Netherlands however, prospects for such a switch are bleak. With 6% renewables its progress is lagging, and vested interests hold back change. The transition is failing. READ MORE

  5. 4. Situated Collective Utopias: Stories of engaged spatial practices and shared territorial heritage

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet

    Author : Miguel Ros; [2015]
    Keywords : performance; utopias; heritage; interventions; making; telling;

    Abstract : Challenging the wide-spread hopelessness in relationship to our capacity to produce real alternatives to the abstract and egoistic neoliberal utopia – with its destructive and unfair consequences around the globe in general and specifically in Mallorca – this thesis, understood as performative research, focuses on the conception and development of Situated Collective Utopias.  These would be utopias that can grow generously and unfold not as abstract and consensed projections of futures but as extrusions of very contextual and often dissensual hopes. READ MORE