Collective Dreams : : Political Imagination and Community / / Keally D. McBride.

How do we go about imagining different and better worlds for ourselves? Collective Dreams looks at ideals of community, frequently embraced as the basis for reform across the political spectrum, as the predominant form of political imagination in America today. Examining how these ideals circulate w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2015]
©2005
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (168 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Politics of Imagining Communities
  • 2 A Room Full of Mirrors: Community and the Promise of Identity
  • 3 Habits of the Hearth: Families and Politics in Theory and Practice
  • 4 Citizens Without States? Bringing Community into Institutions
  • 5 Consuming Community
  • 6 Utopian Vision as Commodity Fetish: Social Imagineering in Postmodern Capitalism
  • 7 Community in Practice
  • WORKS CITED
  • INDEX