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Dreams of Nowhere: Imagining a Socialist Utopia Amidst a Crumbling Social Order
Dreams of Nowhere: Imagining a Socialist Utopia Amidst a Crumbling Social Order
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202105128
- ISBN
- 9798293815975
- DDC
- 301
- 서명/저자
- Dreams of Nowhere: Imagining a Socialist Utopia Amidst a Crumbling Social Order
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 358 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-03, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Robinson, Susan.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약The old social order is crumbling. What's to come remains uncertain. These are precarious times.This dissertation begins with a deeply human question: What would it actually feel like to live in a socialist world? I explore that question through a sweeping, interdisciplinary story that moves from critique to construction, and history to imagination.I argue that U.S. civil society-rooted in exclusion, built to protect and justify inequality-is a central barrier to building a just world. Modern capitalist society fosters alienation, exclusion, and profound unfreedom relative to the history of humanity. Socialism, by contrast, holds transformative potential far beyond economic relations. It offers a holistic reorientation of social life toward solidarity, cooperation, and agency.Chapters 1 and 2 trace the theoretical foundations of civil society, map its development in the United States, and show how it functions less as a vehicle for progress than as a pressure valve that legitimates domination.Chapter 3 retells the story of socialism in the United States. Far from it being internal failures that stopped socialism's rise, these chapters show how the movement was repeatedly crushed by capitalist coalitions working within the friendly terrain of civil society.Chapter 4 offers a case study of the Democratic Socialists of America, a socialist organization currently in ascendence.Chapter 5 shows how government, business, and advertising systematically severed socialism from its revolutionary roots in the public sphere.Chapter 6 uses utopian fiction literature to turn our story toward imagining a socialist world.And in Chapter 7, I develop an "imaginary ethnography," taking readers to a socialist utopia-a tangible vision of regenerative institutions and spaces designed to cultivate solidarity, community, and agency. What emerges is a model of a socialist civil society designed to restore the kinds of freedoms humans have enjoyed for most of our past.This work is humanistic, qualitative, political, and deeply personal. Ultimately, I argue that reclaiming the socialist imaginary-rooted in love, sustained by solidarity-is not naive, but necessary. We have the capacity to remake our world. We need the vision. This is my contribution to that vision.
- 일반주제명
- Sociology
- 일반주제명
- Political science
- 일반주제명
- Journalism
- 일반주제명
- American studies
- 일반주제명
- Social structure
- 키워드
- Civil society
- 키워드
- Critical theory
- 키워드
- Socialism
- 키워드
- Solidarity
- 키워드
- Utopian studies
- 기타저자
- The University of Wisconsin - Madison Mass Communications - LS
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-03A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
MARC
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■5021 ▼aThesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2025.
■520 ▼aThe old social order is crumbling. What's to come remains uncertain. These are precarious times.This dissertation begins with a deeply human question: What would it actually feel like to live in a socialist world? I explore that question through a sweeping, interdisciplinary story that moves from critique to construction, and history to imagination.I argue that U.S. civil society-rooted in exclusion, built to protect and justify inequality-is a central barrier to building a just world. Modern capitalist society fosters alienation, exclusion, and profound unfreedom relative to the history of humanity. Socialism, by contrast, holds transformative potential far beyond economic relations. It offers a holistic reorientation of social life toward solidarity, cooperation, and agency.Chapters 1 and 2 trace the theoretical foundations of civil society, map its development in the United States, and show how it functions less as a vehicle for progress than as a pressure valve that legitimates domination.Chapter 3 retells the story of socialism in the United States. Far from it being internal failures that stopped socialism's rise, these chapters show how the movement was repeatedly crushed by capitalist coalitions working within the friendly terrain of civil society.Chapter 4 offers a case study of the Democratic Socialists of America, a socialist organization currently in ascendence.Chapter 5 shows how government, business, and advertising systematically severed socialism from its revolutionary roots in the public sphere.Chapter 6 uses utopian fiction literature to turn our story toward imagining a socialist world.And in Chapter 7, I develop an "imaginary ethnography," taking readers to a socialist utopia-a tangible vision of regenerative institutions and spaces designed to cultivate solidarity, community, and agency. What emerges is a model of a socialist civil society designed to restore the kinds of freedoms humans have enjoyed for most of our past.This work is humanistic, qualitative, political, and deeply personal. Ultimately, I argue that reclaiming the socialist imaginary-rooted in love, sustained by solidarity-is not naive, but necessary. We have the capacity to remake our world. We need the vision. This is my contribution to that vision.
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■650 4▼aAmerican studies
■650 4▼aSocial structure
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■653 ▼aCritical theory
■653 ▼aPolitical imagination
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■653 ▼aSolidarity
■653 ▼aUtopian studies
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■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17359499▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.


