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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present8
Islamic Utopianism: Key Concepts from the Quranic Story of Adam’s Creation5
“To Make Discoveries in Those Latitudes”: Utopia and Settler Colonialism in Equality; or, a History of Lithconia4
Maps and Lives: H. G. Wells’s The Sleeper Awakes3
Environmental Emotions: Tracking Affects on Page and Screen, Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies (ENSCAN), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, June 13–14, 20233
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, Ita3
The Ancient Sea: The Utopian and Catastrophic in Classical Narratives and their Reception3
Disruptive Imaginations, Joint Annual Conference of the Science Fiction Research Association and the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung, TU Dresden, Germany, August 15–19, 20233
Decolonizing the Feminist Utopia: Interfaith Sisterhood and Anticolonial Feminist Resistance in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s Sultana’s Dream and Padmarag2
Dreamworlds of the Avant-Garde in 1920s Peru: Narratives of Modernity and Community in the Andes2
The Closed West: Rajneeshpuram and the Failure of Utopia in Antelope, Oregon2
Fictional Commodities: Victorian Utopian Fiction and Polanyi’s Great Transformation1
Critical Forum Introduction: Cultural Encounters and Textual Speculations in the Mediterranean1
The Nationality of Utopia: H. G. Wells, England, and the World State1
The Neoliberal Utopianism of Bitcoin and Modern Monetary Theory1
Pour une morphologie du genre utopique1
Gendered Geographies across Time I: Early Researchers’ Seminar for Science and Speculative Fiction, University of Salamanca, Spain, March–June 20231
The Racial Horizon of Utopia: Unthinking the Future of Race in Late Twentieth-Century American Utopian Novels1
Utopian Enterprises: Growing Up with Star Trek1
Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common1
Taxation in Utopia: Required Sacrifice and the General Welfare1
The Dystopian Imagination in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film1
Survive and Resist: The Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics1
The Queer Utopianism of Myra Breckinridge1
(P)rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship1
Introduction1
“The Ones Who Stay and Fight”: N. K. Jemisin's Afrofuturist Variations on a Theme by Ursula K. Le Guin1
The Applied Sci-Fi Project, Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States (online event), May 2022–June 20230
No Exit: Death Drive, Dystopia, and the Long Winter of the American Dream in Harold Ramis’s The Ice Harvest0
Editors’ Message0
Two Cheers for Blueprints, or, Negative Reasons for Positive Utopianism0
City of Glass: Architecture, Narration, and Unruly Bodies in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We0
How to Run a City Like Amazon and Other Fables0
Science and Technology in Russian Cosmic Utopias from the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Alexander Bogdanov0
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
Society of Biblical Literature Annual National Conference, San Antonio, Texas, United States, November 17–21, 20230
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the AnthropoceneAfter Extinction0
The Last Man0
The Social Context in Aesopic Fables: Utopias and Dystopias0
Light In the Interstices between Dystopia and Utopia, or, Why I Love Hopepunk0
Response 3: Reframing the Anthropocene0
Speculative Fiction Studies in Turkey: A Preliminary Survey0
Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction0
Response 2: The Neoliberal Dystopian Present and Utopian Reactions0
Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Yesterday: Eutopia, Dystopia and Violence in Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow0
Gender, Race, Color, Glass: A Reading of Clothing and Decoration in Paul Scheerbart’s Glass Utopias0
Grounded Utopia0
“Nothing you can believe is not coming true”: Utopianism and Extinction Studies0
On Antiutopianism in Pragmatics and Narrative0
Experimental Utopia: Edward Abramowski’s “Applied Social Science”0
White Power and American Neoliberal Culture0
Developing a Utopian Model of Human-Technology Interaction: Collective Intelligence Applications in Support of Future Well-Being0
Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature: A Commons Poetics0
On the Antiutopian Effect in Game of Thrones0
Speculative Fiction South of the Mediterranean: A Literature of Crisis between Dystopian Anxieties and Utopian Alternatives0
Rousseau’s Implicit Socratism: Utopianism in the Social Contract0
Looking for Utopia in the Mediterranean: Contemporary Türkiye and Underground Station by Çağrı Aktaş0
Utopia or Bust: Capitalocene, Method, Anti-Utopia0
Euthanasia in Utopian Literature0
Forging Desire Lines with Addie LaRue0
Response 1: “Many pasts to access”: Recent Dystopian Fiction by Asian North American Women Writers0
Mapping Utopia as an Enclosed Renaissance Garden0
Utopia and the Politics of Conflict in Cory Doctorow's Walkaway0
EDITORS’ MESSAGE0
In Tradition is the Preservation of the World: A Twenty-First Century Confucian Utopia0
Architecture and Anarchism: Building without Authority0
Introduction to First-Book Authors Colloquium0
The Levitical Jubilee as a Utopian Legal Institution0
Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation0
Nowhere in the Middle Ages0
The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam and the Security State0
Prefiguring Utopia: The Auroville Experiment0
Money0
The Future0
Science Fiction as a Narratological Model0
An Ecotopian Lexicon0
Response 1: Acting Up in Utopia0
Archibald Marshall’s “Motley Mixture of Crying Contradictions”: Upsidonia as Utopian Farce0
We Hear Only Ourselves: Utopia, Memory, and Resistance0
Conceptions of Utopia in Modern Liberal Thought: Is There a Liberal Utopia?0
Hispanic Utopian Studies and Activism as a Prompt0
A French Investigation of Oneida0
Utopia’s Cauldron: Travelers’ Lore and Korea (“Besila”) in the Persian Epic of Kush the Tusked0
Alternative Futures and the Present: Postcolonial Possibilities0
Imagining Socialism: Aesthetics, Anti-Politics, and Literature in Britain, 1817–19180
Journey Through Utopia0
Research on the Transformation of Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction0
Melbourne and Mars: My Mysterious Life on Two Planets0
Utopian and Dystopian Themes in Tolkien’s Legendarium0
Response 2: Finding Joy in the Work: Looking Beyond the Garden0
Pedagogies of Desire, The 35th Conference of the Society for Utopian Studies, Austin, Texas, United States, November 9–11, 20230
Funding Utopia: Utopian Studies and the Discourse of Academic Excellence0
Embodying Contagion: The Viropolitics of Horror and Desire in Contemporary Discourse0
Utopia and the Decolonial Imperative0
Communism, Poetry: Communicating Vessels (Some Insubordinate Essays, 1999–2018)0
Margery Brown’s Air-Age Utopia for American Women0
Rethinking Utopia and Utopianism0
Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity0
Navigating Uncertainty: The Ambiguous Utopias of Le Guin, Gorodischer, and Jemisin0
Existence as Resistance, WisCon 46, May 26–29, 2023, Madison, Wisconsin, United States0
Enacting Utopia: Utopia's Investment in Canada's Land and Its Settlement-Building Past0
Hope Draped in Black: Decolonizing Utopian Studies0
From Big Brother to the Big Bang: Self, Science, and Singularity in George Orwell’s 19840
Science Fiction0
The Future of the Book: Images of Reading in the American Utopian Novel0
The Postcritical Utopia0
Response 4: The Summer of Our Discontent0
Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action0
Morganeering or the Triumph of the Trust, a Satirical Burlesque on the Worship of Wealth0
Between Dystopia and Utopia in Catalonia: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of Manuel De Pedrolo’s Mecanoscrit del Segon Origen0
Excavating the Future: Utopia as a Method of Historical Analysis0
Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump: Images from Literature and Visual Arts0
Paradise on Fire: Dialectics of Utopia in Edward Bond’s The War Plays0
Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures0
Work, Love, and Learning in Utopia: Equality Reimagined0
Theology, Religion, and Dystopia0
Critical Theory and Dystopia0
Annie Denton Cridge’s Healthy Utopia: The Associative Underpinnings of “Man’s Rights; or, How Would You Like It?”0
A Frozen Fantasy for Cold War America0
Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw0
Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien0
Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement0
Equality, Liberty, and Fraternity: The Relevance of Edward Bellamy's Utopia for Contemporary Political Theory0
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
Wish We Were There: Hope, Desire, and Utopian Community in Contemporary Solarpunk0
Disciplinary Utopias: The Mediterranean as a Context and Artistic Mediations0
A New Expansion: Climate Change, Posthumanism, and the Utopian Dimension in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl0
Settling the Desert, Unsettling the Mirage: Urban Ecologies of Arab and Gulf Futurisms in Ahmed Naji’s Using Life0
Warning through Extrapolation: On the Practical Aims of Dystopia0
Un/Building the Future: The Country and The City in the Anthropocene, University of Warwick, UK, June 14–16, 20230
The Shape of Power and of Pain in Game of Thrones0
The End of This World: Climate Justice in So-Called Canada0
Dante in Deutschland: An Itinerary of Romantic Myth0
The Curious Tales of The Scarlet Empire0
Insistent Hope as Anti-Anti-Utopian Politics in N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy0
Transcultural Utopias: Exploring the Afterlives of Rabindranath Tagore, Visions of Utopia, and Aesthetic Formulations in Cultural Diaspora Practice0
Art of Dystopia: Why Edward Hopper Paintings Haunt the Present Moment0
“Unruly Alliances,” Female Phallicism, and Other Forms of New Masculinities0
The Adventures of Telemachus [1699]0
Antiutopianism, Social Darwinism, and Self-Preservation: Some Reflections0
“A simple post-growth life”: The Green Camp Gallery Project as Lived Ecotopia in Urban South Africa0
Response 3: From AI to Arachnids: Something Beyond the Bomb0
Dialectics of Pleasure in Thomas More’s Utopia0
Epistemological Warfare and Hope in Critical Dystopia0
Response 1: What Is Solarpunk? From Desire to Blueprint (and Utopian Literacy)0
Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation0
Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel0
Utopia on Earth?: Sustainability, White Tourism, and Neocolonial Desire0
Solarpunk Futures0
Eutopia: Studies in Cultural Euro-Welshness, 1850–19800
Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genre0
Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction0
A Critical Survey of Chilean Utopian Narrative (1829–1934)0
Response 3: “Unshakeable Want”: Solarpunk, Petromodernity, and the Death Drive0
Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors0
Accumulating and Realizing the Radical Potential of Catastrophe in Karen Tei Yamashita’sThrough the Arc of the Rain Forest0
An Overabundance of Population Panics: A Rough Periodization of “Fertility Dystopias”0
Why Historians Will End Capitalism0
Green Utopia Now! A Transdisciplinary Symposium on How to Deal with the Climate Crisis: November 30, 2022, University of Ferrara, Italy0
American Community: Radical Experiments in Intentional Living0
Response 4: Refractions: Moving with Queer Theory into Queer Poethics0
Political Uses of Utopia: New Marxist, Anarchist, and Radical Democratic Perspectives0
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist0
Form and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Spain: Utopian Narratives and Socio-Political Debate0
Sabotaged: Dreams of Utopia in Texas0
Response 2: Time Travelling to Utopia0
Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times0
Editors’ Message0
Surveillance Capitalism and the Normalization of Digital Surveillance: An Analysis of Dave Eggers’s The Every (2021)0
Optimize Your Life! Work, Automation, and Instrumentarianism in Contemporary German Utopian Literature0
Darko Suvin, Communism, Poetry: Communicating Vessels0
Engineering the Welfare State: Economic Thought as Context to Boye’s Kallocain and Huxley’s Brave New World0
The Literary Method of Urban Design: Design Fictions Using Fiction0
Four Futures: Life after Capitalism0
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, 0
“Life! Life!”: The Precarious Utopianism of Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 21400
Found in Translation: “New People” in Twentieth-Century Chinese Science Fiction0
The Past and Future of Utopian Studies0
The Virtuous City of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ: A Medieval Islamic Reflection on Worldliness and Communal Division0
Response 2: “Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will”0
Management Consultancy Firms and Hythloday’s Island: Utopian Visions of the Most Desired of Workplaces0
The Beautification of Dystopias across Media: Aesthetic Ambivalence from We to Black Mirror0
Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought: Narratives of World Politics0
Postcolonial Hope and Agency as a Contestation of Ideological Utopias in Claude McKay’sAmiable with Big Teeth0
Guns and Gender Roles in Dystopian Settings0
Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone0
Religion in US Utopian Literature0
In the Nature of (Utopian) Production of Space: A Structuralist Perusal of Architectural Utopianism0
Transcultural Utopian Imagination and the Future: Tagore, Gandhi, Andrews, and India–Britain Entanglements in the Early 1930s0
Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction0
Utopian Views: Paolo Mantegazza's Techniques of the (Im)Possible0
Ideology and Utopia in the Twenty-First Century: The Surplus of Meaning in Ricoeur's Dialectical Concept0
Utopías Hispanas. Historia y Antología0
Utopia, Religion, and Transcendence in Turkish Literature: Ruşeni Barkın, Molla Davudzade, and İsmail Gaspıralı0
Divine Biopower: Sovereign Violence and Affective Life in the Yuki Yuna Is a Hero Series0
Cultivating the Possible: Reimagining Education and Society / 3rd International Conference of Possibility Studies, All Hallows Campus, Dublin City University, Dublin, July 17–21, 20230
Response 1: “A Problem of Solidarity” and Incommensurability0
The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film0
Borderlands Hyperbole, Critical Dystopias, and Transfeminist Utopian Hope: Gaspar de Alba's Desert Blood and Valencia's Capitalismo gore0
Spectres of Pessimism: A Cultural Logic of the Worst0
The Theory and Practice of Utopia in Our Troubled Times: A Conversation with Author Larissa Lai and Critic Sherryl Vint0
Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life0
From Utopian Island to Global Empire: Alex Garland's The Beach0
Fantasy: How It Works0
Utopian Imagination in Ancient Iran: The Nostalgia of a Lost Paradise0
Introduction: Hope Through Action—Solarpunk Blueprints, Desires, and Politics0
Arthur C. Clarke0
The Monastic Cell as Utopian Niche: The Contribution of Religious Niches to Socio-Ecological Transformation0
Kim Stanley Robinson0
Hope Springs Eternal: Political Engagement in a Post-Anarchist Utopia0
American Transcendentalism and the Twenty-First Century0
Zones of Eden: Utopian Fragments in Raymond Williams’s The Fight for Manod and E. P. Thompson’s The Sykaos Papers0
An Archival Paradise: John Wilkins’s Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language and Early Modern Info-Utopianism0
As If, But Differently: Meditations on the Realisms of Our Times, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria, December 1–2, 20230
In and Against Eco-Apocalypse: On the Terrestrial Ecotopianism of Radical Environmental Activists0
Utopia After the “End of History”: Addressing the Crisis of Future in Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez’s Philosophy of Praxis0
The Lullaby’s Utopian Function and the Green Utopian Imagination in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy0
Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life After Consumerism0
Utopia Matters! The Importance of Utopianism and Utopian Scholarship0
Utopia as a Cosmopolitan Method in Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men0
The Noble Impermanence of Waystations0
Bilder einer besseren Welt. Die Utopie im nichtfiktionalen Film0
From Imagination to Action, The Solarpunk Conference, June 24, 2023, Virtual0
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
Utopian Imaginaries, 23rd Utopian Studies Society/Europe Annual Conference, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, July 4–7, 20230
Editors’ Message0
Gestures of Refusal: Utopian Longings in Satyajit Ray’s Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne0
Disrupting the Present and Opening the Future0
The Conception of Private in Thomas More's Utopia between Plato's and Cicero's Philosophy0
Response 3: Transgressive Utopianism and Direct Activism0
What If We Move Not in Lines But in Circles?0
Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society0
Utopic Dreaming on the Borderlands: An Anzaldúan Reading of Yuri Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World0
A Nostalgic Return to the Future: The Utopian Dialectic in Hao Jingfang’s Vagabonds0
Antiutopianism: An Introduction0
The Shape of Utopia: The Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America0
Complex Democracy, Complex Utopianism0
The Double Role of Architecture: The Critical and Therapeutic Potency of Unbuilt Utopias0
Utopian/Dystopian Dialectics in Christian Responses to the Ecological Crisis: Between Ethics and Ontology0
Dreamworld or Dystopia? The Nordic Model and Its Influence in the 21st Century0
Hungry for Utopia: An Antiwork Reading of Bram Stoker's Dracula0
After the Night, Before the Gate: Kafkaesque Imaginations and Dystopian Speculations in the Mediterranean0
Blind Spots and Avenues for Transformation within the Utopian Canon: Toward A Terrestrial Ecotopianism0
Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-figurations of the Postcolony0
The Social Prison: Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed as Postanarchist Critical Utopia0
Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics in Fiction, Film, and Culture0
Three Moderate Solutions to Income Inequality in Utopia: Hertzka, Herzl, and Wells0
Call for Papers0
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