The Dictionary Of Alternatives: Utopianism And Organization

‘There is no alternative to free market liberalism and managerialism’, is the orthodoxy of the twenty-first century. Ordinary people across the world are being told that the problem of organization is already solved, that it is being solved somewhere else, or that they have no choices. Using hundreds of entries and cross-references, this dictionary contests this view by highlighting the many alternative ways of organizing ourselves, which could be expressed as fictional utopias, excavated from the past, or described in terms of the contemporary politics of anti-corporate protest, environmentalism, feminism and localism. Part reference work, part source book, and part polemic, this dictionary provides a rich understanding of the ways in which fiction, history and today’s politics provide different ways of thinking about how we can and should organize for the new century.

Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.

Paperback

2007

ISBN: 9781842773338