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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
Dreams of Nowhere: Imagining a Socialist Utopia Amidst a Crumbling Social Order

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20260202105128
ISBN  
9798293815975
DDC  
301
저자명  
Benn, Jesse O'Neill.
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  
Political imagination
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  
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