Lucy Sargisson

University of Nottingham, Politics and International Relations, Faculty Member

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Papers by Lucy Sargisson

Fool's Gold?

Riverside Community

Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, 2003

Definitions, Debates and Conflicts: Utopianism, Anti-utopianism and Anti-Anti-Utopianism

Fool's Gold?, 2012

Human Attitudes to Nature

Fool's Gold?, 2012

Domestic Architecture: New Urbanism and Cohousing

Fool's Gold?, 2012

Feminism and Gender

Fool's Gold?, 2012

Religious Fundamentalism

Fool's Gold?, 2012

Computer Gaming

Fool's Gold?, 2012

Green Intentional Communities

Fool's Gold?, 2012

Climate Change and Catastrophe Fiction

Fool's Gold?, 2012

Sex and Sexual Identity

Fool's Gold?, 2012

Cloning, Cyborgs and Robots

Fool's Gold?, 2012

Fantastic Architecture and the Case of Dubai

Fool's Gold?, 2012

Sex in Utopia: Eutopian and Dystopian Sexual Relations

Utopian Studies, 2014

Lasting lessons about intentional communitites

... century intentional communities were founded based directly on the utopian novels Walden Two ... more

What's Wrong with Ecofeminism

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Contemporary feminist utopianism

... Page 11. SERIES EDITORS&#x27; PREFACE We are delighted to be able to includeContemporary ... more

Chapter 9 Sustainability and the intentional community: Green intentional communities

Advances in Ecopolitics, 2009

Imperfect Utopias: Green Intentional Communities

Advances In Ecopolitics, 2007

A Democracy of All Nature: Taking a Utopian Approach

Politics, 2013

This article offers a controversial argument, namely that a utopian approach adds something valua... more This article offers a controversial argument, namely that a utopian approach adds something valuable to the study of politics. I develop this position by showing how utopian fiction and experimentation can contribute to a recent debate in environmental politics; the call for a democracy that 'includes nature'. I argue that a utopian approach has limits -for example, it cannot provide all the answers or offer blueprints for a perfect world -but that it can create spaces in which to imagine a different and better political relationship. Simply put, a utopian approach can shift the parameters of what is conceivable.

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