Analysing Contemporary Society through Lived Utopia: Prefiguration and Change

Winner of the Thomas A. Herz Prize for Qualitative Research and the Habilitation Prize.

What if utopia wasn't a distant dream, but already unfolding around us?

Focusing on South Africa, this compelling book rethinks utopia not as a fictional unreachable future, but as a lived practice – emerging in social movements and intentional communities.

Rejecting capitalism, it explores how people create alternative ways of living social orders or economies, imagining and organizing the world. Blen...