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Using examples as diverse as train accidents, novels and gardening, this book evaluates the prospects for utopian thought and practice in the context of a world organized by market managerialism. * Asks if ideas about utopia are redundant. * Evaluates the prospects for utopian thought and practice in a world organized by market managerialism. * Treats utopia as an organizational issue, rather than focusing on literary or historical interpretations. * Engages with ideas of utopia, dystopia and crypto--utopia, organization and management. * Uses diverse examples, such as train accidents, novels and gardening to explore issues in novel and thought--provoking ways.
| ISBN | 1405100729 | | Pages | 200 | | ISBN13 | 9781405100724
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 352 | | Imprint | Blackwell Publishers | | Published in | Oxford | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Sociological Review Monograph | | Publication date | 06 Sep 2002 | | Height (mm) | 228 | | Non-book description | 233 p. ; | | Width (mm) | 153 | | Library of Congress | 2002033206 | | Spine width (mm) | 13 | | DEWEY | 321.07 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| | | Utopia and the organizational imagination: outopia by Martin Parker | | 1 | | | | Organized and disorganized utopias: an essay on presumption by Christopher Grey and Christina Garsten | | 9 | | | | What is a crypto-utopia and why does it matter? by Roy Stager Jacques | | 24 | | | | Utopia or ideology: Karl Mannheim and the place of theory by Stephen Ackroyd | | 40 | | | | Autonomy as utopia or dystopia by David Knights and Hugh Willmott | | 59 | | | | Local entanglements or utopian moves: an inquiry into train accidents by John Law and Annemarie Mol | | 82 | | | | Utopiary: utopias, gardens and organization by Gibson Burrell and Karen Dale | | 106 | | | | The consumption of time and space: utopias and the English romantic garden by Rolland Munro | | 128 | | | | Writing utopia by Geoff Lightfoot and Simon Lilley | | 155 | | | | Keeping the Black Flag flying: anarchy, utopia and the politics of nostalgia by Patrick Reedy | | 169 | | | | Utopianism and the cultivation of possibilities: grassroots movements of hope by Valerie Fournier | | 189 | | | | Utopia and the organizational imagination: eutopia by Martin Parker | | 217 | | | | Notes on contributors | | 225 | | | | Index | | 229 |
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