Many thanks to Ruy Blanes and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen for their response my critique (Bråten 2022a) of special section on ‘Utopian Confluences’ (especially, 2021; 2021), Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale publishing the exchange. The theoretical questions that arise from our diverging stances are, hopefully, general interest. While I take (hereafter B&B) argue an epistemologically all-i...

Utopia and Vision. Learning from Vienna and Frankfurt By definition, a utopia cannot be realized; at the same time architecture needs a “place”. Within this contradiction, modern architectural utopias have conceived of and developed spatial solutions to implement their principles. The spatial analysis of modern utopias allows for the identification of the relationship between architectural feat...

this research aims to explain utopian components in the opinions of scholars of iran constitution. changing of the relationship between iran and west in the constitution period and advent of enlightened renovation thoughts caused to changing of iranian ideal thoughts approach into utopian concept. ideal thoughts in iran in encountering western civilization manifestation by clear attitudes clari...

utopian fantasy in the poetry of sohrab sepehri and abbas beydoun(a comparative study)tooraj zinivand *jahungir amiri **reza kiany ***abstractif we look at the poems of the iranian poet sohrab sepehri and lebanese poetabbas beydoun , we find that the fantasy adopted by poets imagination is linked topsychological factors, and this fantasy often comes in surreal manner in branches ofliterary, sym...

A utopian political theory (UPT) can emerge from the analysis of borders. The significant increase in human mobility between State-borders constitutes the empirical referent distinguishing our “Utopian Age” from others in the past, as historical examples of UPT have not dealt with either the issue of human mobility or the topic of “Migration without Borders”. We start with a brief introduction ...

The project in memory of anthropologist, writer and politician Darcy Ribeiro is analyzed, with emphasis on the relationship he had with his personal archives and the creation of the Darcy Ribeiro Foundation, established to give continuity to his 'legacy.' It highlights the influences present in the formation of his archive and presents an ethnography that seeks to restore the historicity of the...