Archive of Envisioning Real Utopias

• “Should We Fight For ‘Social Justice’?”

  Over at Crooked Timber John Holbo has started reading Erik Olin Wright's Envisioning Real Utopias and refers to the book at length in a new article about the term "social justice."

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  By Clara Heyworth / 17 September 2010 / post comment

• Radical Ideas

  In a piece for openDemocracy's "OurKingdom" blog entitled "A radical idea for party funding reform," Guy Aitchison praise's Erik Olin Wright's Envisioning Real Utopias—a "fascinating book which sets out ideas for the progressive reform of institutions on radically democratic and egalitarian lines."

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  By Clara Heyworth / 24 August 2010 / post comment

• Envisioning Real Utopias—Live

  In April 2010 Erik Olin Wright presented a lecture on Envisioning Real Utopias as part of the West Coast Poverty Center's seminar series on poverty and policy. The slides used during the lecture can be downloaded by visiting the West Coast Poverty Center website.

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  By Clara Heyworth / 29 July 2010 / post comment

• Envisioning Real Utopias—Announcing a Book Event in the Fall

  Crooked Timber have posted an item announcing Erik Olin Wright's Envisioning Real Utopias which not only includes some very nice words about the book but also details about a symposium dedicated to the book for Fall 2010.

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  By Clara Heyworth / 17 June 2010 / post comment

• Erik Olin Wright elected President of the American Sociological Association

  Erik Olin Wright, author of Envisioning Real Utopias,  has been elected President of the American Sociological Association. He is president-elect for one year and President August 2011 to August 2012. He will be deciding the theme for the annual ASA meeting to take place in Denver in August 2012. Details of this year's meeting, the theme of which is Towards a Sociology of Citizenship: Inclusion, Participation, and Rights, can be found on the website of the American Sociological Association.

  By Clara Heyworth / 08 June 2010 / post comment

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