Utopian Studies

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Closed West: Rajneeshpuram and the Failure of Utopia in Antelope, Oregon12
No Exit: Death Drive, Dystopia, and the Long Winter of the American Dream in Harold Ramis’s The Ice Harvest5
Maps and Lives: H. G. Wells’s The Sleeper Awakes5
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, 4
Listening for Utopia3
Utopian Imaginaries, 23rd Utopian Studies Society/Europe Annual Conference, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, July 4–7, 20232
Prefiguring Utopia: The Auroville Experiment2
Green Utopia Now! A Transdisciplinary Symposium on How to Deal with the Climate Crisis: November 30, 2022, University of Ferrara, Italy2
The Past and Future of Utopian Studies2
Divine Biopower: Sovereign Violence and Affective Life in the Yuki Yuna Is a Hero Series1
Settling the Desert, Unsettling the Mirage: Urban Ecologies of Arab and Gulf Futurisms in Ahmed Naji’s Using Life1
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, Ma1
Utopia’s Cauldron: Travelers’ Lore and Korea (“Besila”) in the Persian Epic of Kush the Tusked1
Hope Springs Eternal: Political Engagement in a Post-Anarchist Utopia1
Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life1
Dreamworld or Dystopia? The Nordic Model and Its Influence in the 21st Century1
Editors’ Message1
The Curious Tales of The Scarlet Empire1
Archibald Marshall’s “Motley Mixture of Crying Contradictions”: Upsidonia as Utopian Farce1
Pedagogies of Desire, The 35th Conference of the Society for Utopian Studies, Austin, Texas, United States, November 9–11, 20231
Response 1: “A Problem of Solidarity” and Incommensurability1
Looking for Utopia in the Mediterranean: Contemporary Türkiye and Underground Station by Çağrı Aktaş1
Introduction to First-Book Authors Colloquium0
Communism, Poetry: Communicating Vessels (Some Insubordinate Essays, 1999–2018)0
Developing a Utopian Model of Human-Technology Interaction: Collective Intelligence Applications in Support of Future Well-Being0
Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement0
A New Expansion: Climate Change, Posthumanism, and the Utopian Dimension in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl0
Solarpunk Futures0
Architecture and Anarchism: Building without Authority0
The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam and the Security State0
Utopia Matters! The Importance of Utopianism and Utopian Scholarship0
Speculative Queerness: Non-Normative Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities in David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future0
Janelle Monáe’s Queer Afrofuturism: Defying Every Label0
Work, Love, and Learning in Utopia: Equality Reimagined0
The Future of the Book: Images of Reading in the American Utopian Novel0
As If, But Differently: Meditations on the Realisms of Our Times, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria, December 1–2, 20230
Zones of Eden: Utopian Fragments in Raymond Williams’s The Fight for Manod and E. P. Thompson’s The Sykaos Papers0
The Last Man0
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
On Antiutopianism in Pragmatics and Narrative0
Dystopian/Utopian Theatre in Britain after 2000 and Its Political Spaces, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung / Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld, March 11–13, 20
Between Dystopia and Utopia in Catalonia: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of Manuel De Pedrolo’s Mecanoscrit del Segon Origen0
Optimize Your Life! Work, Automation, and Instrumentarianism in Contemporary German Utopian Literature0
Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times0
Money0
Utopías Hispanas. Historia y Antología0
Alternative Futures and the Present: Postcolonial Possibilities0
Taxation in Utopia: Required Sacrifice and the General Welfare0
Funding Utopia: Utopian Studies and the Discourse of Academic Excellence0
Forget the ’60s, Let’s Talk about the ’90s: Reframing the Utopian Imagination0
Fantasy: How It Works0
We Hear Only Ourselves: Utopia, Memory, and Resistance0
Dante in Deutschland: An Itinerary of Romantic Myth0
Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics0
Apocalyptic Narratives: Science, Risk and Prophecy0
Gestures of Refusal: Utopian Longings in Satyajit Ray’s Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne0
Apocalypse Without God: Apocalyptic Thought, Ideal Politics, and the Limits of Utopian Hope0
Insistent Hope as Anti-Anti-Utopian Politics in N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy0
Disrupting the Present and Opening the Future0
Critical Forum Introduction: Cultural Encounters and Textual Speculations in the Mediterranean0
EDITORS’ MESSAGE0
Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation0
City of Glass: Architecture, Narration, and Unruly Bodies in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We0
Environmental Emotions: Tracking Affects on Page and Screen, Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies (ENSCAN), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, June 13–14, 20230
Response 1: “Many pasts to access”: Recent Dystopian Fiction by Asian North American Women Writers0
Excavating the Future: Utopia as a Method of Historical Analysis0
Found in Translation: “New People” in Twentieth-Century Chinese Science Fiction0
After the Night, Before the Gate: Kafkaesque Imaginations and Dystopian Speculations in the Mediterranean0
The Adventures of Telemachus [1699]0
Cruising Dystopia0
Annie Denton Cridge’s Healthy Utopia: The Associative Underpinnings of “Man’s Rights; or, How Would You Like It?”0
Gender and Environment in Science Fiction0
Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel0
Fictional Commodities: Victorian Utopian Fiction and Polanyi’s Great Transformation0
Tune Out, Tune In: Cruising for Queer Utopian Reprieve in Welcome to Night Vale0
Response 1: Acting Up in Utopia0
Thinking-with Muñoz: A Posthuman Queer Ecological Cruise0
Science Fiction as a Narratological Model0
Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity0
Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women’s Work in the Early Industrial Age0
Response 3: From AI to Arachnids: Something Beyond the Bomb0
To Desire Differently: Contagion, Occupation, and the Threading of Crises0
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist0
Editors’ Message0
Antiutopianism: An Introduction0
Euthanasia in Utopian Literature0
Queer Anarchy: Muñoz and Schürmann Go on a Date0
Embodying Contagion: The Viropolitics of Horror and Desire in Contemporary Discourse0
The Neoliberal Utopianism of Bitcoin and Modern Monetary Theory0
Response 4: Refractions: Moving with Queer Theory into Queer Poethics0
The Virtuous City of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ: A Medieval Islamic Reflection on Worldliness and Communal Division0
Response 3: “Unshakeable Want”: Solarpunk, Petromodernity, and the Death Drive0
Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone0
Gathering Snake Hut: Thermoplay and the Endurance of Queer Futurity0
Antiutopianism, Social Darwinism, and Self-Preservation: Some Reflections0
Warning through Extrapolation: On the Practical Aims of Dystopia0
American Community: Radical Experiments in Intentional Living0
American Transcendentalism and the Twenty-First Century0
Critical Forum Introduction: Muñoz’s Ghost, or, The Sparks of Other Tomorrows0
Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw0
Cruising Utopia, Conjuring Magic0
Captain America, Genderqueer Socialist: The Utopian Politics of Queer Fan Fiction0
A Frozen Fantasy for Cold War America0
Utopian Enterprises: Growing Up with Star Trek0
Un/Building the Future: The Country and The City in the Anthropocene, University of Warwick, UK, June 14–16, 20230
Why Historians Will End Capitalism0
Blind Spots and Avenues for Transformation within the Utopian Canon: Toward A Terrestrial Ecotopianism0
Call for Papers0
Response 2: “Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will”0
Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life After Consumerism0
Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common0
Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genre0
Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond: Feminist Ecocriticism of Science Fiction0
EDITORS’ MESSAGE0
Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump: Images from Literature and Visual Arts0
Rousseau’s Implicit Socratism: Utopianism in the Social Contract0
Morganeering or the Triumph of the Trust, a Satirical Burlesque on the Worship of Wealth0
“A simple post-growth life”: The Green Camp Gallery Project as Lived Ecotopia in Urban South Africa0
Accumulating and Realizing the Radical Potential of Catastrophe in Karen Tei Yamashita’sThrough the Arc of the Rain Forest0
“Unruly Alliances,” Female Phallicism, and Other Forms of New Masculinities0
Jacolby Satterwhite’s Blessed Avenue: Digitopian Reformulations of Queer Futurity0
Imagining Socialism: Aesthetics, Anti-Politics, and Literature in Britain, 1817–19180
Navigating Uncertainty: The Ambiguous Utopias of Le Guin, Gorodischer, and Jemisin0
Alternative Masculinities in Feminist Speculative Fiction: A New Man0
Paradise on Fire: Dialectics of Utopia in Edward Bond’s The War Plays0
Utopia After the “End of History”: Addressing the Crisis of Future in Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez’s Philosophy of Praxis0
The Shape of Utopia: The Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America0
Theology, Religion, and Dystopia0
The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film0
The Ancient Sea: The Utopian and Catastrophic in Classical Narratives and their Reception0
Islamic Utopianism: Key Concepts from the Quranic Story of Adam’s Creation0
The Double Role of Architecture: The Critical and Therapeutic Potency of Unbuilt Utopias0
On the Antiutopian Effect in Game of Thrones0
Response 3: Transgressive Utopianism and Direct Activism0
What If We Move Not in Lines But in Circles?0
Science Fiction0
Grounded Utopia0
Eutopia: Studies in Cultural Euro-Welshness, 1850–19800
Response 2: Time Travelling to Utopia0
The Applied Sci-Fi Project, Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States (online event), May 2022–June 20230
Dialectics of Pleasure in Thomas More’s Utopia0
Response 1: What Is Solarpunk? From Desire to Blueprint (and Utopian Literacy)0
Art of Dystopia: Why Edward Hopper Paintings Haunt the Present Moment0
Disciplinary Utopias: The Mediterranean as a Context and Artistic Mediations0
Sabotaged: Dreams of Utopia in Texas0
Two Cheers for Blueprints, or, Negative Reasons for Positive Utopianism0
Gender, Race, Color, Glass: A Reading of Clothing and Decoration in Paul Scheerbart’s Glass Utopias0
Introduction: Hope Through Action—Solarpunk Blueprints, Desires, and Politics0
The Monastic Cell as Utopian Niche: The Contribution of Religious Niches to Socio-Ecological Transformation0
The Noble Impermanence of Waystations0
Surveillance Capitalism and the Normalization of Digital Surveillance: An Analysis of Dave Eggers’s The Every (2021)0
Rethinking Utopia and Utopianism0
Speculative Fiction South of the Mediterranean: A Literature of Crisis between Dystopian Anxieties and Utopian Alternatives0
Response 4: The Summer of Our Discontent0
Science and Technology in Russian Cosmic Utopias from the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Alexander Bogdanov0
Editors’ Message0
The Postcritical Utopia0
Introduction0
The Literary Method of Urban Design: Design Fictions Using Fiction0
Mapping Utopia as an Enclosed Renaissance Garden0
Utopia on Earth?: Sustainability, White Tourism, and Neocolonial Desire0
From Big Brother to the Big Bang: Self, Science, and Singularity in George Orwell’s 19840
Experimental Utopia: Edward Abramowski’s “Applied Social Science”0
An Archival Paradise: John Wilkins’s Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language and Early Modern Info-Utopianism0
Utopian Imagination in Ancient Iran: The Nostalgia of a Lost Paradise0
A Nostalgic Return to the Future: The Utopian Dialectic in Hao Jingfang’s Vagabonds0
The Theory and Practice of Utopia in Our Troubled Times: A Conversation with Author Larissa Lai and Critic Sherryl Vint0
Engineering the Welfare State: Economic Thought as Context to Boye’s Kallocain and Huxley’s Brave New World0
Religion in US Utopian Literature0
Queer Utopia, Transfeminism, and Solidarity in Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer Universe0
Utopian/Dystopian Dialectics in Christian Responses to the Ecological Crisis: Between Ethics and Ontology0
White Power and American Neoliberal Culture0
The Levitical Jubilee as a Utopian Legal Institution0
Critical Theory and Dystopia0
Complex Democracy, Complex Utopianism0
Gendered Geographies across Time I: Early Researchers’ Seminar for Science and Speculative Fiction, University of Salamanca, Spain, March–June 20230
Research on the Transformation of Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction0
Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction0
Conceptions of Utopia in Modern Liberal Thought: Is There a Liberal Utopia?0
Transcultural Utopias: Exploring the Afterlives of Rabindranath Tagore, Visions of Utopia, and Aesthetic Formulations in Cultural Diaspora Practice0
In Tradition is the Preservation of the World: A Twenty-First Century Confucian Utopia0
Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction0
The Racial Horizon of Utopia: Unthinking the Future of Race in Late Twentieth-Century American Utopian Novels0
Forging Desire Lines with Addie LaRue0
Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Yesterday: Eutopia, Dystopia and Violence in Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow0
Cultivating the Possible: Reimagining Education and Society / 3rd International Conference of Possibility Studies, All Hallows Campus, Dublin City University, Dublin, July 17–21, 20230
Management Consultancy Firms and Hythloday’s Island: Utopian Visions of the Most Desired of Workplaces0
The Lullaby’s Utopian Function and the Green Utopian Imagination in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy0
Exuberant Embodiment: A Trans Utopia for an Unbearable Present0
Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction0
Response 2: The Neoliberal Dystopian Present and Utopian Reactions0
Margery Brown’s Air-Age Utopia for American Women0
Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors0
Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation0
Existence as Resistance, WisCon 46, May 26–29, 2023, Madison, Wisconsin, United States0
Hopeful Apocalypse: Trans Speculative Fiction and Climate Change0
The End of This World: Climate Justice in So-Called Canada0
Response 2: Finding Joy in the Work: Looking Beyond the Garden0
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
(P)rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship0
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
Response 3: Reframing the Anthropocene0
The Shape of Power and of Pain in Game of Thrones0
Decolonizing the Feminist Utopia: Interfaith Sisterhood and Anticolonial Feminist Resistance in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s Sultana’s Dream and Padmarag0
Holding Patterns (Anywhere but Here)0
Hope Draped in Black: Decolonizing Utopian Studies0
Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere0
Spectres of Pessimism: A Cultural Logic of the Worst0
Muñoz and Morrisroe, Damage and Utopia, Otherwiseness0
The Social Prison: Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed as Postanarchist Critical Utopia0
“Nothing you can believe is not coming true”: Utopianism and Extinction Studies0
Epistemological Warfare and Hope in Critical Dystopia0
Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature: A Commons Poetics0
Light In the Interstices between Dystopia and Utopia, or, Why I Love Hopepunk0
Society of Biblical Literature Annual National Conference, San Antonio, Texas, United States, November 17–21, 20230
Masculinity in Transition0
Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures0
Three Moderate Solutions to Income Inequality in Utopia: Hertzka, Herzl, and Wells0
Transcultural Utopian Imagination and the Future: Tagore, Gandhi, Andrews, and India–Britain Entanglements in the Early 1930s0
Hispanic Utopian Studies and Activism as a Prompt0
Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action0
Wish We Were There: Hope, Desire, and Utopian Community in Contemporary Solarpunk0
Postcolonial Hope and Agency as a Contestation of Ideological Utopias in Claude McKay’sAmiable with Big Teeth0
Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-figurations of the Postcolony0
From Imagination to Action, The Solarpunk Conference, June 24, 2023, Virtual0
Guns and Gender Roles in Dystopian Settings0
Utopian and Dystopian Themes in Tolkien’s Legendarium0
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