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Antiutopianism: An Introduction 反乌托邦主义导论

IF 0.2 4区社会学

Utopian Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.2.0289

Patricia McManus, Darko Suvin

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Utopian Enterprises: Growing Up with Star Trek 乌托邦企业：与《星际迷航》一起成长

IF 0.2 4区社会学

Utopian Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.2.0359

Mark S. Jendrysik

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Art of Dystopia: Why Edward Hopper Paintings Haunt the Present Moment 乌托邦艺术爱德华-霍珀的画作为何萦绕当下

IF 0.2 4区社会学

Utopian Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.2.0350

Ali Rıza Taşkale

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The Postcritical Utopia 后批判乌托邦

4区社会学

Utopian Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.1.0001

Sean Seeger

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Divine Biopower: Sovereign Violence and Affective Life in the Yuki Yuna Is a Hero Series 神圣的生命力量:《尤娜是英雄》系列中的主权暴力和情感生活

4区社会学

Utopian Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.1.0064

Leo Chu

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The Lullaby’s Utopian Function and the Green Utopian Imagination in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy 《摇篮曲》的乌托邦功能与柯林斯《饥饿游戏三部曲》中的绿色乌托邦想象

4区社会学

Utopian Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.1.0051

Aihua Chen, Yue Li

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The Virtuous City of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ: A Medieval Islamic Reflection on Worldliness and Communal Division 《贤德之城Ikhwān al-Ṣafā:中世纪伊斯兰教对世俗与社会分裂的反思》

4区社会学

Utopian Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.1.0034

Mohamad Ghossein

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The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam and the Security State 嫌疑犯:反恐、伊斯兰和安全国家

4区社会学

Utopian Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.1.0132

Rhiannon Firth

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The Adventures of Telemachus [1699] 忒勒马科斯历险记[1699]

4区社会学

Utopian Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.1.0140

Jean-Michel Racault

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Rethinking Utopia and Utopianism 重新思考乌托邦和乌托邦主义

4区社会学

Utopian Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.1.0137

William James Metcalf

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