Description: Prefiguring Utopia : The Auroville Experiment, Hardcover by Aswini Clarence-smith, Suryamayi, ISBN 1529230780, ISBN-13 9781529230789, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Auroville in Tamil Nadu, South India, is an internationally recognized endeavour in prefiguring an alternative society: the largest, most diverse, dynamic and enduring of intentional communities worldwide. This book is a critical and insightful analysis of the utopian practice of this unique spiritual township, by a native scholar. The author explores how Auroville’s founding spiritual and societal ideals are engaged in its communal political and economic organization, as well as various cultural practices and what enables and sustains this prefiguratively utopian practice. This in-depth, autoethnographic case study is an important resource for understanding prefigurative and utopian experiments – their challenges, potentialities and significance for the advancement of human society.
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Book Title: Prefiguring Utopia : The Auroville Experiment
Number of Pages: 202 Pages
Publication Name: Prefiguring Utopia : the Auroville Experiment
Language: English
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Subject: Political Ideologies / Anarchism, Development / Economic Development, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Political Ideologies / Democracy, Utopias, Sociology / Urban
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2023
Item Weight: 21.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Suryamayi Aswini Clarence-Smith
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
Item Length: 9.2 in
Series: Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
