DIY utopia : cultural imagination and the remaking of the possible / edited by Amber Day.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Day, Amber (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2017.
Subjects:
Utopian socialism.
Consumption (Economics)
Do-it-yourself work.
Physical Description:xix, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : creative play and collective imagination / Amber Day
  • Opening up utopia / Stephen Duncombe
  • Imagination and a useless map / Catherine D'Ignazio
  • Implausible futures for unpopular places / Rob Walker
  • Repair events and the fixer movements : fixing the world one repair at a time / Lorenzo Giannini
  • Our knowledge is our market : consuming the diy world / Jeremy Hunsinger
  • DIY radio utopia : what is so funny about the tragedy of the commons / Linda Doyle and Jessica Foley
  • Remaking street corners as "bureaux" : DIY youth spaces and shifting urban ontologies in Guinea / Clovis Bergère
  • Whose city? : art and public space in Providence / Martha Kuhlman
  • Livestream production and livestream community in the Black lives matter movement / Chenjerai Kumanyika
  • Making do and mending
  • domestic television in the age of austerity : Kirstie Allsopp's Kirstie's homemade home / Deborah Philips
  • Everyday utopias, technological dystopias, and the failed occupation of the global modern : Dwell magazine meets unhappy hipsters / Joan Faber McAlister and Giorgia Aiello
  • Change your underwear, change the world : entrepreneurial activism and the fate of utopias in an era of ethical capital / Lisa Daily.