Our Utopian Futures: Imagining a Sustainable, Dialogical, and Inclusive World (Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics)

This multidisciplinary book explores the utopian impulses in modern social thought, tackling the most pressing and interconnected planetary challenges.It combines a reconsideration of our dystopian present with a critical investigation of socio-spatial utopias, which suggest alternative modes for human-nature and inter-human interactions in an imagined sustainable, dialogical, and inclusive world. Based on a content analysis of scholarly publications, policy documents, and intergovernmental agendas, four analytical chapters systematise visions which shape the contours of contemporary socio-ecological, socio-economic, socio-cultural, and socio-political utopianism.Addressing the most existential global risks, utopian futures require more than sustainable development, degrowth, or global justice.The book explicitly underscores the urgent need for an open-minded dialogue, an inclusive knowledge order, lasting peace, and other marginalised concepts which can contribute to dismantling the b