Envisioning Real Utopias, Erik Olin Wright, London: Verso, 2010

Ruccio, David F.

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“…Like others (Olssen, 2006;Papastephanou, 2009;Ruccio, 2011), they argue that any utopian vision for education needs to be embedded within a wider vision of the social totality. As Albert puts it, 'if we ultimately want really worthy education -like really worthy health care, or art, or sports, or production, or consumption -we will need a new economy with a new logic and structure' (Albert, 2007, 324).…”

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Educational Studies and the Domestication of Utopia

Webb

2016

British Journal of Educational Studies

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This paper offers a critique of educational real utopias. Real Utopias are experimental forms of thought and practice intended to harness the transgressive force of traditional utopianism while avoiding its associated dangers. The concept has been embraced by the field of educational studies and applied to the study of various educational settings, institutions and processes. This paper does four things. Firstly, it outlines the concept of utopian realism and highlights those aspects that are said to differentiate it from the utopia that supposedly played a role in the human catastrophes of the twentieth century. It then evaluates a selection of educational real utopias to assess whether they can, in fact, be said to have succeeded in the task of harnessing the intellectual force while overcoming the dangers of traditional utopianism. Thirdly, the paper offers a critique of utopian realism, arguing that the concept of utopia has become thoroughly domesticated. Finally, the paper defends the expansive and holistic concept of utopia that utopian realism rejects. The argument here is that only when utopia is understood as a holistic system is it able to produce its most potent pedagogical effects.

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Section: Educational Real Utopiasmentioning

confidence: 94%

Educational Studies and the Domestication of Utopia

Webb

2016

British Journal of Educational Studies

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The Limits of Sociological Marxism?

Morton¹

2013

Hist Mater

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Within the agenda of historical-materialist theory and practice Sociological Marxism has delivered a compelling perspective on how to explore and link the analysis of civil society, the state, and the economy within an explicit focus on class exploitation, emancipation, and rich ethnography. This article situates a major analysis of state formation, the rise of the justice and Development Party (AKP), and the growth of a broader Islamist movement in Turkey within the main current of Sociological Marxism, It does so in order to critically examine the rather bold revision of the theory of hegemony at the heart of Cihan Tugal's Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism, which posits the separate interaction of political society, civil society and the state in theorising hegemonic politics in Turkey, My contention is that the revision of hegemony that this analysis offers and its state-theoretical commitments are deeply problematic due to the reliance on what I term 'ontological exteriority, meaning the treatment of state, civil society and the economy as always-already separate spheres. The focus of the critique then moves toward highlighting a frustrating lack of direct engagement with Antonio Gramsci's writings in this disquisition on hegemony and passive revolution, which has important political consequences. While praise for certain aspects of ethnographic and spatial analysis is raised, it is argued that any account of the reordering of hegemony and the restructuring of spatial-temporal contexts of capital accumulation through conditions of passive revolution also needs to draw from a more sophisticated state theory, a direct reading of Gramsci, and broader scalar analysis of spatial relations and uneven development under capitalism.

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A Comparison of Some of the Themes of Irrationality, Illusion and Mystification Identified or Inferred by Karl Marx and Max Weber in Their Explanations of the Rise of Capitalism

Farmer

2012

JSR

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This comparative study was undertaken in the belief that our understanding of the modern economic spirit, volatility of global markets and political activism can be furthered by revisiting Marx"s and Weber"s sociological, philosophical, economic and religious explanations of the rise of capitalism. The author identifies and reconsiders much of the scholarly literature on the argument that there are themes of illusion, mystification and irrationality in the classical theorists" explanations and that the themes are antagonists in much of the original writings.

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Envisioning Real Utopias, Erik Olin Wright, London: Verso, 2010

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Educational Studies and the Domestication of Utopia

Educational Studies and the Domestication of Utopia

The Limits of Sociological Marxism?

A Comparison of Some of the Themes of Irrationality, Illusion and Mystification Identified or Inferred by Karl Marx and Max Weber in Their Explanations of the Rise of Capitalism

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