Table of Contents

Introduction A-Z of Utopian Thought - Over 300 detailed entries, from the familiar to the esoteric. For example: Fictional Utopias The Republic Gulliver's Travels News from Nowhere Island Social Experiments America Bourneville Cuba The Paris Commune Porto Alegre Soviet Union Wikipedia Social Movements The Black Panthers Communism Deep Ecology Fair Trade Levellers New Model Army Romanticism Situtationist Via Campesina The World Social Forum Zapatistas Thinkers Bakunin Castro Marx Gandhi Guevara Illich Nozick Friere Rawls Further Reading

Promotional Information

Part reference work, part source book, and part polemic, this dictionary provides an understanding of the ways in which fiction, history and politics provide different ways of thinking about how we can and should organize for the new century.

About the Author

Martin Parker is Professor of Organisation and Culture in the Management Centre, University of Leicester. Valerie Fournier is Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies in the Management Centre, University of Leicester. Patrick Reedy lectures in organizational behaviour and human resource management at the Business School of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Reviews

The Dictionary of Alternatives reveals a splendidly rich and dazzling array of other possibilities, other dreams, other truths and other worlds. At a time when so much intellectual discourse is slavishly conformist, this book dares to be different. Christopher Grey, University of Cambridge