Analysing Contemporary Society through Lived Utopia: Prefiguration and Change

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. Blending decolonial sociology, political sociology, utopian studies and real-world experienc...