Utopian Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Utopian Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Answering the Knock at the Door, Welcoming Utopian Futures, The Knock at the Door: Utopian Dreams for Post-Covid Times, May 21–24, 2023, University of Huelva, Spain, and University of Calgary, 5
African Art Heterotopias3
Listening for Utopia2
Maps and Lives: H. G. Wells’s The Sleeper Awakes2
No Exit: Death Drive, Dystopia, and the Long Winter of the American Dream in Harold Ramis’s The Ice Harvest2
Divine Biopower: Sovereign Violence and Affective Life in the Yuki Yuna Is a Hero Series1
Utopian Imaginaries, 23rd Utopian Studies Society/Europe Annual Conference, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, July 4–7, 20231
Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life1
Archibald Marshall’s “Motley Mixture of Crying Contradictions”: Upsidonia as Utopian Farce1
Dreamworld or Dystopia? The Nordic Model and Its Influence in the 21st Century1
The Past and Future of Utopian Studies1
Editors’ Message1
Hope Springs Eternal: Political Engagement in a Post-Anarchist Utopia1
Looking for Utopia in the Mediterranean: Contemporary Türkiye and Underground Station by Çağrı Aktaş1
Settling the Desert, Unsettling the Mirage: Urban Ecologies of Arab and Gulf Futurisms in Ahmed Naji’s Using Life1
Utopia’s Cauldron: Travelers’ Lore and Korea (“Besila”) in the Persian Epic of Kush the Tusked1
“Beyond the Present”: Osiris Rising , Utopia, and Historical Fracture1
The Oxford Handbook of Thomas More’s Utopia1
Pedagogies of Desire, The 35th Conference of the Society for Utopian Studies, Austin, Texas, United States, November 9–11, 20231
Green Utopia Now! A Transdisciplinary Symposium on How to Deal with the Climate Crisis: November 30, 2022, University of Ferrara, Italy1
The Curious Tales of The Scarlet Empire1
Response 1: “A Problem of Solidarity” and Incommensurability1
Prefiguring Utopia: The Auroville Experiment1
Afrocentricity in Afrofuturism: Toward Afrocentric Futurism0
Transcultural Utopian Imagination and the Future: Tagore, Gandhi, Andrews, and India–Britain Entanglements in the Early 1930s0
From Imagination to Action, The Solarpunk Conference, June 24, 2023, Virtual0
Reading Trans Excess into Toni Morrison’s Beloved0
Canceled Futures “and all that cal” in Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange0
Euthanasia in Utopian Literature0
Introduction0
Gathering Snake Hut: Thermoplay and the Endurance of Queer Futurity0
Paradise on Fire: Dialectics of Utopia in Edward Bond’s The War Plays0
Keys to Paradise: Imāmate and the Utopian Longings of the Shiʿi Devotional Text of Mafātīḥ al-jinān0
A Frozen Fantasy for Cold War America0
Introduction to First-Book Authors Colloquium0
EDITORS’ MESSAGE0
Erratum0
Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw0
Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement0
Decolonizing the Feminist Utopia: Interfaith Sisterhood and Anticolonial Feminist Resistance in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s Sultana’s Dream and Padmarag0
Disciplinary Utopias: The Mediterranean as a Context and Artistic Mediations0
On Antiutopianism in Pragmatics and Narrative0
Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions0
As If, But Differently: Meditations on the Realisms of Our Times, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria, December 1–2, 20230
The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film0
The Shape of Utopia: The Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America0
Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement0
In the Black Fantastic0
American Transcendentalism and the Twenty-First Century0
Research on the Transformation of Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction0
Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Yesterday: Eutopia, Dystopia and Violence in Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow0
Speculative Queerness: Non-Normative Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities in David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future0
Transcultural Utopias: Exploring the Afterlives of Rabindranath Tagore, Visions of Utopia, and Aesthetic Formulations in Cultural Diaspora Practice0
Dante in Deutschland: An Itinerary of Romantic Myth0
Hope Draped in Black: Decolonizing Utopian Studies0
Found in Translation: “New People” in Twentieth-Century Chinese Science Fiction0
Captain America, Genderqueer Socialist: The Utopian Politics of Queer Fan Fiction0
Jacolby Satterwhite’s Blessed Avenue : Digitopian Reformulations of Queer Futurity0
Imagining Socialism: Aesthetics, Anti-Politics, and Literature in Britain, 1817–19180
Response 1: “Many pasts to access”: Recent Dystopian Fiction by Asian North American Women Writers0
Critical Forum Introduction: Cultural Encounters and Textual Speculations in the Mediterranean0
City of Glass: Architecture, Narration, and Unruly Bodies in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We0
Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics0
The End of This World: Climate Justice in So-Called Canada0
After the Night, Before the Gate: Kafkaesque Imaginations and Dystopian Speculations in the Mediterranean0
Response 3: Transgressive Utopianism and Direct Activism0
From Big Brother to the Big Bang: Self, Science, and Singularity in George Orwell’s 19840
The (Post)human Condition in Times of Crisis: The Interplay between Artificial Intelligence, Otherness, and Environmentalism, Electricdreams—Between Fiction and Society II, IULM University, Milan, Ita0
Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature: A Commons Poetics0
The Last Man0
Voyage et aventures en deux îles désertes des Indes orientales and Recueil de quelques mémoires pour l’établissement de l’île d’Éden0
Response 1: Acting Up in Utopia0
Funding Utopia: Utopian Studies and the Discourse of Academic Excellence0
Hispanic Utopian Studies and Activism as a Prompt0
Anticipatory Environmental (Hi)stories from Antiquity to the Anthropocene0
Environmental Emotions: Tracking Affects on Page and Screen, Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies (ENSCAN), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, June 13–14, 20230
Wish We Were There: Hope, Desire, and Utopian Community in Contemporary Solarpunk0
Response 3: From AI to Arachnids: Something Beyond the Bomb0
Response 1: What Is Solarpunk? From Desire to Blueprint (and Utopian Literacy)0
Light In the Interstices between Dystopia and Utopia, or, Why I Love Hopepunk0
Utopia on Earth?: Sustainability, White Tourism, and Neocolonial Desire0
The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas0
Masculinity in Transition0
Make Capitalism History: A Practical Framework for Utopia and the Transformation of Society0
Postcolonial Hope and Agency as a Contestation of Ideological Utopias in Claude McKay’s Amiable with Big Teeth0
Surveillance Capitalism and the Normalization of Digital Surveillance: An Analysis of Dave Eggers’s The Every (2021)0
EDITORS’ MESSAGE0
Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action0
No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World0
Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction0
Muñoz and Morrisroe, Damage and Utopia, Otherwiseness0
Why Historians Will End Capitalism0
On the Antiutopian Effect in Game of Thrones0
Art of Dystopia: Why Edward Hopper Paintings Haunt the Present Moment0
The Virtuous City of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ: A Medieval Islamic Reflection on Worldliness and Communal Division0
Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genre0
Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-figurations of the Postcolony0
Science Fiction0
In Tradition is the Preservation of the World: A Twenty-First Century Confucian Utopia0
American Community: Radical Experiments in Intentional Living0
Dialectics of Pleasure in Thomas More’s Utopia0
The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam and the Security State0
White Power and American Neoliberal Culture0
Antiutopianism, Social Darwinism, and Self-Preservation: Some Reflections0
Abolitionist Speculation0
Complex Democracy, Complex Utopianism0
Response 3: “Unshakeable Want”: Solarpunk, Petromodernity, and the Death Drive0
The Future of the Book: Images of Reading in the American Utopian Novel0
Soviet Urban Planning’s “Great Debate” (1929–1931): Modernity, Utopia, and the “Ideal Socialist City”0
The Principle of Political Hope: Progress, Action, and Democracy in Modern Thought0
Robo Sacer: Necroliberalism and Cyborg Resistance in Mexican and Chicanx Dystopias0
Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond: Feminist Ecocriticism of Science Fiction0
Optimize Your Life! Work, Automation, and Instrumentarianism in Contemporary German Utopian Literature0
Epistemological Warfare and Hope in Critical Dystopia0
Un/Building the Future: The Country and The City in the Anthropocene, University of Warwick, UK, June 14–16, 20230
(P)rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship0
The Levitical Jubilee as a Utopian Legal Institution0
Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability0
Rousseau’s Implicit Socratism: Utopianism in the Social Contract0
The Postcritical Utopia0
Gendered Geographies across Time I: Early Researchers’ Seminar for Science and Speculative Fiction, University of Salamanca, Spain, March–June 20230
The Theory and Practice of Utopia in Our Troubled Times: A Conversation with Author Larissa Lai and Critic Sherryl Vint0
Cruising Utopia , Conjuring Magic0
Theology, Religion, and Dystopia0
The Lullaby’s Utopian Function and the Green Utopian Imagination in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy0
Alternative Futures and the Present: Postcolonial Possibilities0
Response 3: Reframing the Anthropocene0
Queer Anarchy: Muñoz and Schürmann Go on a Date0
Response 2: The Neoliberal Dystopian Present and Utopian Reactions0
EDITORS’ MESSAGE0
We Hear Only Ourselves: Utopia, Memory, and Resistance0
Response 2: “Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will”0
Exuberant Embodiment: A Trans Utopia for an Unbearable Present0
“A simple post-growth life”: The Green Camp Gallery Project as Lived Ecotopia in Urban South Africa0
Existence as Resistance, WisCon 46, May 26–29, 2023, Madison, Wisconsin, United States0
Utopia After the “End of History”: Addressing the Crisis of Future in Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez’s Philosophy of Praxis0
Apocalypse Without God: Apocalyptic Thought, Ideal Politics, and the Limits of Utopian Hope0
Management Consultancy Firms and Hythloday’s Island: Utopian Visions of the Most Desired of Workplaces0
Editors’ Message0
Architecture and Anarchism: Building without Authority0
Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere0
A New Expansion: Climate Change, Posthumanism, and the Utopian Dimension in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl0
Secularizing the Eschaton: Pentecostal Miracle Cities as Afrotopias0
Cruising Dystopia0
Utopian/Dystopian Dialectics in Christian Responses to the Ecological Crisis: Between Ethics and Ontology0
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist0
Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel0
Tune Out, Tune In: Cruising for Queer Utopian Reprieve in Welcome to Night Vale0
The Applied Sci-Fi Project, Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States (online event), May 2022–June 20230
Rethinking Utopia and Utopianism0
Science Fiction as a Narratological Model0
Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity0
Society of Biblical Literature Annual National Conference, San Antonio, Texas, United States, November 17–21, 20230
An Archival Paradise: John Wilkins’s Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language and Early Modern Info-Utopianism0
Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women’s Work in the Early Industrial Age0
Three Moderate Solutions to Income Inequality in Utopia: Hertzka, Herzl, and Wells0
Antiutopianism: An Introduction0
Rethinking Utopia: Interdisciplinary Approaches0
Editors’ Message0
Holding Patterns (Anywhere but Here)0
Thinking-with Muñoz: A Posthuman Queer Ecological Cruise0
Speculative Fiction South of the Mediterranean: A Literature of Crisis between Dystopian Anxieties and Utopian Alternatives0
Meet the “More Immediate and Intense” Ursula K. Le Guin0
The Double Role of Architecture: The Critical and Therapeutic Potency of Unbuilt Utopias0
What If We Move Not in Lines But in Circles?0
Forging Desire Lines with Addie LaRue0
Communism, Poetry: Communicating Vessels (Some Insubordinate Essays, 1999–2018)0
Pädagogik und Utopie: Historisch-systematische Rekonstruktionen zu einem denknotwendig ungeklärten Verhältnis0
Annie Denton Cridge’s Healthy Utopia: The Associative Underpinnings of “Man’s Rights; or, How Would You Like It?”0
Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice0
Engineering the Welfare State: Economic Thought as Context to Boye’s Kallocain and Huxley’s Brave New World0
Cosplay meets Capitalism: San Diego Comic Con International, July 25–28, 20240
The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction0
Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone0
The Literary Method of Urban Design: Design Fictions Using Fiction0
Queer Utopia, Transfeminism, and Solidarity in Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer Universe0
The Social Prison: Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed as Postanarchist Critical Utopia0
Solarpunk Futures0
Religion in US Utopian Literature0
Utopian Enterprises: Growing Up with Star Trek0
On the African Utopic Registers of the Future0
Embodying Contagion: The Viropolitics of Horror and Desire in Contemporary Discourse0
Blind Spots and Avenues for Transformation within the Utopian Canon: Toward A Terrestrial Ecotopianism0
Utopia and the Decolonial Imperative0
Disruptive Imaginations, Joint Annual Conference of the Science Fiction Research Association and the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung, TU Dresden, Germany, August 15–19, 20230
Experimental Utopia: Edward Abramowski’s “Applied Social Science”0
Critical Forum Introduction: Muñoz’s Ghost, or, The Sparks of Other Tomorrows0
Spectres of Pessimism: A Cultural Logic of the Worst0
Fantasy: How It Works0
Call for Papers0
Utopías Hispanas. Historia y Antología0
Visions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies0
Response 4: The Summer of Our Discontent0
Critical Theory and Dystopia0
Cultivating the Possible: Reimagining Education and Society / 3rd International Conference of Possibility Studies, All Hallows Campus, Dublin City University, Dublin, July 17–21, 20230
Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors0
EDITORS’ MESSAGE0
Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life After Consumerism0
Hopeful Apocalypse: Trans Speculative Fiction and Climate Change0
Response 4: Refractions: Moving with Queer Theory into Queer Poethics0
“Unruly Alliances,” Female Phallicism, and Other Forms of New Masculinities0
Mapping Utopia as an Enclosed Renaissance Garden0
African Utopias: A Vibrant but Little-Known Debate0
Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction0
Alternative Masculinities in Feminist Speculative Fiction: A New Man0
The Monastic Cell as Utopian Niche: The Contribution of Religious Niches to Socio-Ecological Transformation0
Forget the ’60s, Let’s Talk about the ’90s: Reframing the Utopian Imagination0
The Shape of Power and of Pain in Game of Thrones0
The Adventures of Telemachus [1699]0
Two Cheers for Blueprints, or, Negative Reasons for Positive Utopianism0
The Ancient Sea: The Utopian and Catastrophic in Classical Narratives and their Reception0
Gender and Environment in Science Fiction0
Response 2: Time Travelling to Utopia0
“Nothing you can believe is not coming true”: Utopianism and Extinction Studies0
The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms0
Capturing the Afrotopia in Ghana’s December 31st Revolution 1982–1992: The Past Futures Framework as An Analytical Construct0
Gestures of Refusal: Utopian Longings in Satyajit Ray’s Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne0
Bridging Worlds: Global Conversations on Creating Pan-African Speculative Literature in a Pandemic0
Ecological Mindedness and Sustainable Wellbeing, ECHIC—The European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres 2023 Annual Conference, May 25–27, 2023, University of Ferrara, Italy0
Colonial Utopia and Afrodystopia0
Gender, Race, Color, Glass: A Reading of Clothing and Decoration in Paul Scheerbart’s Glass Utopias0
Hopeful and Just Futures Across Scales: Situated Solar Relations: Rethinking Scale for the Renewable Energy Age / Solar Media Collective, Concordia University, Tio’tia:Ke (Montréal), Canada, Ma0
The Noble Impermanence of Waystations0
Reconsidering Afrotopia: An Introduction0
Between Dystopia and Utopia in Catalonia: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of Manuel De Pedrolo’s Mecanoscrit del Segon Origen0
Apocalyptic Narratives: Science, Risk and Prophecy0
Introduction: Hope Through Action—Solarpunk Blueprints, Desires, and Politics0
Response 2: Finding Joy in the Work: Looking Beyond the Garden0
Janelle Monáe’s Queer Afrofuturism: Defying Every Label0
To Desire Differently: Contagion, Occupation, and the Threading of Crises0
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