Utopian Studies

Protopia: Leaning into the Future explores how meaningful social change happens gradually — through care, cooperation, imagination, and small steps toward a better tomorrow. Drawing on urban resilience, technology, and community-building, Joanna Erbel offers an inspiring alternative to the dystopia–utopia divide: protopia — a future that becomes a little better every day.

Between 1865 and 1890, in the aftermath of the Civil War, virtually every important American labor reform organization advocated "cooperation" over "competitive" capitalism and several thousand cooperatives opened for business during this era. The men and women who built cooperatives were practical reformers and they established businesses to stabilize their work lives, families, and communities. Yet they were also utopians - envisioning a world free from conflict where workers would receive the full value of their labor.

'Neima’s book, impeccably researched and beautifully written, will be an inspiration for anyone looking to an alternative future today.' - Stella Tillyard, author of Aristocrats and The Great Level 'Deeply interesting and a pleasure to read, The Utopians illuminates the history of “social...

READERS ARE CALLING IT THE BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘I haven't cried over a novel in years. Tutto passa, but this book stays.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ From the yellow bougainvillea of the Aegean islands to the concrete heart of Athens, from the jasmine-scented nights of Roma to the Sheffield mizzle, Marina's life becomes an archive of departures and returns. She is a psychologist who listens to the sorrows of the world. She is a refugee who learns that home is not a place but a table. She is eighty-one years old, watching drones replace streetlights, and she still has the bottle of Henderson's whiskey in...

Das Jahr 2036: Perry Rhodan und die Astronauten der Stardust sind in der Wüste Gobi gelandet. In ihrer Begleitung ist ein Außerirdischer...