| Description |
233 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Sociological Review monographs |
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Sociological review monograph.
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| Contents |
Utopia and the organizational imagination: outopia / Martin Parker -- Organized and disorganized utopias: an essay on presumption / Christopher Grey and Christina Garsten -- What is a crypto-utopia and why does it matter? / Roy Stager Jacques -- Utopia or ideology: Karl Mannheim and the place of theory / Stephen Ackroyd -- Autonomy as utopia or dystopia / David Knights and Hugh Willmott -- Local entanglements or utopian moves: an inquiry into train accidents / John Law and Annemarie Mol -- Utopiary: utopias, gardens and organization / Gibson Burrell and Karen Dale -- The consumption of time and space: utopias and the English romantic garden / Rolland Munro -- Writing utopia / Geoff Lightfoot and Simon Lilley -- Keeping the Black Flag flying: anarchy, utopia and the politics of nostalgia / Patrick Reedy -- Utopianism and the cultivation of possibilities: grassroots movements of hope / Valerie Fournier -- Utopia and the organizational imagination: eutopia / Martin Parker |
| Summary |
Are ideas about utopia redundant? Is there any point in speculating about better alternatives to Western liberalism? This volume addresses these questions, evaluating the prospects for utopian thought and practice in a world organized by market managerialism |
| Notes |
ANALYTIC |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Sociological review monograph no:50 0081-1769 |
| Subject |
Organizational behavior.
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Social structure.
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| Genre/Form |
Utopian fiction.
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| Author |
Parker, Martin, 1962-
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| LC no. |
2002033206 |
| ISBN |
1405100729 alkaline paper |
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