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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Closed West: Rajneeshpuram and the Failure of Utopia in Antelope, Oregon11
No Exit: Death Drive, Dystopia, and the Long Winter of the American Dream in Harold Ramis’s The Ice Harvest4
Maps and Lives: H. G. Wells’s The Sleeper Awakes4
The Past and Future of Utopian Studies3
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, 3
Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics in Fiction, Film, and Culture2
Utopian Imaginaries, 23rd Utopian Studies Society/Europe Annual Conference, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, July 4–7, 20232
Prefiguring Utopia: The Auroville Experiment2
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist1
Response 1: “A Problem of Solidarity” and Incommensurability1
Hispanic Utopian Studies and Activism as a Prompt1
Green Utopia Now! A Transdisciplinary Symposium on How to Deal with the Climate Crisis: November 30, 2022, University of Ferrara, Italy1
Looking for Utopia in the Mediterranean: Contemporary Türkiye and Underground Station by Çağrı Aktaş1
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
Utopia and the Politics of Conflict in Cory Doctorow's Walkaway1
The Monastic Cell as Utopian Niche: The Contribution of Religious Niches to Socio-Ecological Transformation1
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
Pedagogies of Desire, The 35th Conference of the Society for Utopian Studies, Austin, Texas, United States, November 9–11, 20231
Dreamworld or Dystopia? The Nordic Model and Its Influence in the 21st Century1
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
Editors’ Message1
Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life1
The Curious Tales of The Scarlet Empire1
Archibald Marshall’s “Motley Mixture of Crying Contradictions”: Upsidonia as Utopian Farce1
Critical Theory and Dystopia0
Blind Spots and Avenues for Transformation within the Utopian Canon: Toward A Terrestrial Ecotopianism0
Two Cheers for Blueprints, or, Negative Reasons for Positive Utopianism0
The Literary Method of Urban Design: Design Fictions Using Fiction0
Response 3: Reframing the Anthropocene0
Three Moderate Solutions to Income Inequality in Utopia: Hertzka, Herzl, and Wells0
Environmental Emotions: Tracking Affects on Page and Screen, Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies (ENSCAN), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, June 13–14, 20230
Guns and Gender Roles in Dystopian Settings0
Epistemological Warfare and Hope in Critical Dystopia0
Developing a Utopian Model of Human-Technology Interaction: Collective Intelligence Applications in Support of Future Well-Being0
Found in Translation: “New People” in Twentieth-Century Chinese Science Fiction0
Rethinking Utopia and Utopianism0
Theology, Religion, and Dystopia0
The Virtuous City of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ: A Medieval Islamic Reflection on Worldliness and Communal Division0
Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction0
Zones of Eden: Utopian Fragments in Raymond Williams’s The Fight for Manod and E. P. Thompson’s The Sykaos Papers0
Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature: A Commons Poetics0
Introduction0
Engineering the Welfare State: Economic Thought as Context to Boye’s Kallocain and Huxley’s Brave New World0
Response 3: “Unshakeable Want”: Solarpunk, Petromodernity, and the Death Drive0
(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
Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction0
Transcultural Utopias: Exploring the Afterlives of Rabindranath Tagore, Visions of Utopia, and Aesthetic Formulations in Cultural Diaspora Practice0
Un/Building the Future: The Country and The City in the Anthropocene, University of Warwick, UK, June 14–16, 20230
Architecture and Anarchism: Building without Authority0
The Beautification of Dystopias across Media: Aesthetic Ambivalence from We to Black Mirror0
The Queer Utopianism of Myra Breckinridge0
We Hear Only Ourselves: Utopia, Memory, and Resistance0
A Frozen Fantasy for Cold War America0
Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genre0
Hungry for Utopia: An Antiwork Reading of Bram Stoker's Dracula0
Response 2: The Neoliberal Dystopian Present and Utopian Reactions0
Paradise on Fire: Dialectics of Utopia in Edward Bond’s The War Plays0
Decolonizing the Feminist Utopia: Interfaith Sisterhood and Anticolonial Feminist Resistance in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s Sultana’s Dream and Padmarag0
Response 4: Refractions: Moving with Queer Theory into Queer Poethics0
The Ancient Sea: The Utopian and Catastrophic in Classical Narratives and their Reception0
Alternative Futures and the Present: Postcolonial Possibilities0
The End of This World: Climate Justice in So-Called Canada0
Antiutopianism, Social Darwinism, and Self-Preservation: Some Reflections0
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
Rousseau’s Implicit Socratism: Utopianism in the Social Contract0
The Neoliberal Utopianism of Bitcoin and Modern Monetary Theory0
Speculative Fiction Studies in Turkey: A Preliminary Survey0
An Ecotopian Lexicon0
On the Antiutopian Effect in Game of Thrones0
Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors0
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the AnthropoceneAfter Extinction0
Utopian Enterprises: Growing Up with Star Trek0
Religion in US Utopian Literature0
Art of Dystopia: Why Edward Hopper Paintings Haunt the Present Moment0
Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times0
Disrupting the Present and Opening the Future0
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
Forging Desire Lines with Addie LaRue0
Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action0
Fantasy: How It Works0
Society of Biblical Literature Annual National Conference, San Antonio, Texas, United States, November 17–21, 20230
Speculative Fiction South of the Mediterranean: A Literature of Crisis between Dystopian Anxieties and Utopian Alternatives0
Science and Technology in Russian Cosmic Utopias from the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Alexander Bogdanov0
The Shape of Utopia: The Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America0
“Nothing you can believe is not coming true”: Utopianism and Extinction Studies0
Embodying Contagion: The Viropolitics of Horror and Desire in Contemporary Discourse0
The Racial Horizon of Utopia: Unthinking the Future of Race in Late Twentieth-Century American Utopian Novels0
Darko Suvin, Communism, Poetry: Communicating Vessels0
Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation0
Utopia on Earth?: Sustainability, White Tourism, and Neocolonial Desire0
Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures0
Utopian Imagination in Ancient Iran: The Nostalgia of a Lost Paradise0
“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
A French Investigation of Oneida0
Editors’ Message0
An Archival Paradise: John Wilkins’s Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language and Early Modern Info-Utopianism0
Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw0
Grounded Utopia0
Postcolonial Hope and Agency as a Contestation of Ideological Utopias in Claude McKay’sAmiable with Big Teeth0
From Big Brother to the Big Bang: Self, Science, and Singularity in George Orwell’s 19840
Euthanasia in Utopian Literature0
Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-figurations of the Postcolony0
Science Fiction as a Narratological Model0
Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone0
Utopia and the Decolonial Imperative0
Solarpunk Futures0
Experimental Utopia: Edward Abramowski’s “Applied Social Science”0
An Overabundance of Population Panics: A Rough Periodization of “Fertility Dystopias”0
The Shape of Power and of Pain in Game of Thrones0
Utopian/Dystopian Dialectics in Christian Responses to the Ecological Crisis: Between Ethics and Ontology0
Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump: Images from Literature and Visual Arts0
Research on the Transformation of Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction0
In the Nature of (Utopian) Production of Space: A Structuralist Perusal of Architectural Utopianism0
Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Yesterday: Eutopia, Dystopia and Violence in Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow0
Science Fiction0
Money0
Disruptive Imaginations, Joint Annual Conference of the Science Fiction Research Association and the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung, TU Dresden, Germany, August 15–19, 20230
Fictional Commodities: Victorian Utopian Fiction and Polanyi’s Great Transformation0
On Antiutopianism in Pragmatics and Narrative0
Gestures of Refusal: Utopian Longings in Satyajit Ray’s Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne0
From Imagination to Action, The Solarpunk Conference, June 24, 2023, Virtual0
Response 2: Time Travelling to Utopia0
Optimize Your Life! Work, Automation, and Instrumentarianism in Contemporary German Utopian Literature0
Excavating the Future: Utopia as a Method of Historical Analysis0
Hope Draped in Black: Decolonizing Utopian Studies0
The Conception of Private in Thomas More's Utopia between Plato's and Cicero's Philosophy0
A Nostalgic Return to the Future: The Utopian Dialectic in Hao Jingfang’s Vagabonds0
The Adventures of Telemachus [1699]0
The Lullaby’s Utopian Function and the Green Utopian Imagination in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy0
Islamic Utopianism: Key Concepts from the Quranic Story of Adam’s Creation0
Critical Forum Introduction: Cultural Encounters and Textual Speculations in the Mediterranean0
Warning through Extrapolation: On the Practical Aims of Dystopia0
The Last Man0
Response 3: Transgressive Utopianism and Direct Activism0
Navigating Uncertainty: The Ambiguous Utopias of Le Guin, Gorodischer, and Jemisin0
Introduction: Hope Through Action—Solarpunk Blueprints, Desires, and Politics0
Gendered Geographies across Time I: Early Researchers’ Seminar for Science and Speculative Fiction, University of Salamanca, Spain, March–June 20230
“The Ones Who Stay and Fight”: N. K. Jemisin's Afrofuturist Variations on a Theme by Ursula K. Le Guin0
Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity0
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 2: “Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will”0
Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common0
Disciplinary Utopias: The Mediterranean as a Context and Artistic Mediations0
Editors’ Message0
Margery Brown’s Air-Age Utopia for American Women0
What If We Move Not in Lines But in Circles?0
Complex Democracy, Complex Utopianism0
Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction0
Response 2: Finding Joy in the Work: Looking Beyond the Garden0
Response 1: Acting Up in Utopia0
Melbourne and Mars: My Mysterious Life on Two Planets0
EDITORS’ MESSAGE0
Gender, Race, Color, Glass: A Reading of Clothing and Decoration in Paul Scheerbart’s Glass Utopias0
The Social Prison: Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed as Postanarchist Critical Utopia0
Communism, Poetry: Communicating Vessels (Some Insubordinate Essays, 1999–2018)0
Surveillance Capitalism and the Normalization of Digital Surveillance: An Analysis of Dave Eggers’s The Every (2021)0
Wish We Were There: Hope, Desire, and Utopian Community in Contemporary Solarpunk0
Utopia Matters! The Importance of Utopianism and Utopian Scholarship0
Response 4: The Summer of Our Discontent0
The Social Context in Aesopic Fables: Utopias and Dystopias0
Spectres of Pessimism: A Cultural Logic of the Worst0
Utopian and Dystopian Themes in Tolkien’s Legendarium0
Dialectics of Pleasure in Thomas More’s Utopia0
White Power and American Neoliberal Culture0
Response 1: What Is Solarpunk? From Desire to Blueprint (and Utopian Literacy)0
Funding Utopia: Utopian Studies and the Discourse of Academic Excellence0
American Community: Radical Experiments in Intentional Living0
Introduction to First-Book Authors Colloquium0
Response 1: “Many pasts to access”: Recent Dystopian Fiction by Asian North American Women Writers0
Taxation in Utopia: Required Sacrifice and the General Welfare0
The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam and the Security State0
Call for Papers0
As If, But Differently: Meditations on the Realisms of Our Times, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria, December 1–2, 20230
The Postcritical Utopia0
Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel0
City of Glass: Architecture, Narration, and Unruly Bodies in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We0
Management Consultancy Firms and Hythloday’s Island: Utopian Visions of the Most Desired of Workplaces0
Work, Love, and Learning in Utopia: Equality Reimagined0
Between Dystopia and Utopia in Catalonia: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of Manuel De Pedrolo’s Mecanoscrit del Segon Origen0
American Transcendentalism and the Twenty-First Century0
“Unruly Alliances,” Female Phallicism, and Other Forms of New Masculinities0
Annie Denton Cridge’s Healthy Utopia: The Associative Underpinnings of “Man’s Rights; or, How Would You Like It?”0
Imagining Socialism: Aesthetics, Anti-Politics, and Literature in Britain, 1817–19180
Antiutopianism: An Introduction0
A New Expansion: Climate Change, Posthumanism, and the Utopian Dimension in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl0
Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life After Consumerism0
Utopia After the “End of History”: Addressing the Crisis of Future in Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez’s Philosophy of Praxis0
Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement0
Sabotaged: Dreams of Utopia in Texas0
Utopías Hispanas. Historia y Antología0
Mapping Utopia as an Enclosed Renaissance Garden0
Morganeering or the Triumph of the Trust, a Satirical Burlesque on the Worship of Wealth0
The Theory and Practice of Utopia in Our Troubled Times: A Conversation with Author Larissa Lai and Critic Sherryl Vint0
The Levitical Jubilee as a Utopian Legal Institution0
Insistent Hope as Anti-Anti-Utopian Politics in N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy0
Dante in Deutschland: An Itinerary of Romantic Myth0
The Future of the Book: Images of Reading in the American Utopian Novel0
Existence as Resistance, WisCon 46, May 26–29, 2023, Madison, Wisconsin, United States0
Light In the Interstices between Dystopia and Utopia, or, Why I Love Hopepunk0
Conceptions of Utopia in Modern Liberal Thought: Is There a Liberal Utopia?0
Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation0
Survive and Resist: The Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics0
Accumulating and Realizing the Radical Potential of Catastrophe in Karen Tei Yamashita’sThrough the Arc of the Rain Forest0
The Noble Impermanence of Waystations0
Eutopia: Studies in Cultural Euro-Welshness, 1850–19800
The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film0
Transcultural Utopian Imagination and the Future: Tagore, Gandhi, Andrews, and India–Britain Entanglements in the Early 1930s0
After the Night, Before the Gate: Kafkaesque Imaginations and Dystopian Speculations in the Mediterranean0
In Tradition is the Preservation of the World: A Twenty-First Century Confucian Utopia0
The Double Role of Architecture: The Critical and Therapeutic Potency of Unbuilt Utopias0
“Life! Life!”: The Precarious Utopianism of Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 21400
The Applied Sci-Fi Project, Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States (online event), May 2022–June 20230
Why Historians Will End Capitalism0
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