This article offers a short scholarly reflection on the 20th international conference of Utopian Studies Society, themed around utopia, dystopia and climate change, hosted by Monash University’s European centre in Prato, Italy. Engaging with numerous threads which emerged organically across multiple panels, this positions notions resistance, activism within heart conference’s focus. In doing so...

Yes, we are dreamers, because, like children, we don’t like nightmares. Yes, we are utopian. This utopia is not a heavenly paradise come to earth. Neither is it a return to a mythical Golden Age. This ‘other’ place is a symbolic territory, based on our revolutionary refusal to put up with a world founded on the violence of class and ethnic or sexual domination, of the exploitation of labour and...

The growing literature on smart tourism and the increasing number of initiatives demonstrate that idea is captivating its potential great. However, concrete implementation so far has lacked transformative focus called for by development principles. This paper suggests conceptualizing as a utopian endeavor requires critiquing status quo collective imagining better good destinations could help ef...

The upcoming concept of converging technologies accentuates the coalescence of originally separated branches of science and technology. Tendencies of real technological convergence go along with a convergence of futuristic visions. Several of these visions have been deemed utopian or dystopian. Given this, and the historical importance of utopian thought, the article discusses utopian aspects o...

I consider social action and political projects to be essential in the betterment of a society that clearly needs change and hope. And I do hope that this book, by raising some questions and providing empirical and theoretical elements to treat them, may contribute to informed social action in the pursuit of social change. In this sense, I am not, and do not want to be, a neutral, detached obse...

JCPH – Vol. 63, n 6 – novembre–décembre 2010 460 (published in 2010 by the Institute for Safe Medi cation Practices Can ada and the Canadian Patient Safety Institute; see www.ismp-canada.org/ barcoding/download/ CanPharmBarcode_ JointTechnicalStatement.pdf). • The CSHP 2015 initiative has an entire goal focused on the application of technology to improve the safety of medication use (Goal 5) (s...