Main entry:

Parker, Martin, 1962-

Title & Author:

The dictionary of alternatives : utopianism and organization / Martin Parker, Valérie Fournier and Patrick Reedy.

Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books Ltd. ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Description:

xiv, 338 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-326) and index.
Introduction -- A-Z of Utopian Thought -- Over 300 detailed entries, from the familiar to the esoteric. -- For example: -- Fictional Utopias -- The Republic -- Gulliver's Travels -- News from Nowhere -- Island -- Social Experiments -- America -- Bourneville -- Cuba -- The Paris Commune -- Porto Alegre -- Soviet Union -- Wikipedia -- Social Movements -- The Black Panthers -- Communism -- Deep Ecology -- Fair Trade -- Levellers -- New Model Army -- Romanticism -- Situtationist -- Via Campesina -- The World Social Forum -- Zapatistas -- Thinkers -- Bakunin -- Castro -- Marx -- Gandhi -- Guevara -- Illich -- Nozick -- Friere -- Rawls -- Further Reading.

Summary:

"From America to the Zapatistas, from Arcadia to the Battle for Seattle, this is a look at the history and reality of alternative ideas and organizations. All too often, ordinary people are told that the problems of organization are already solved and don't concern them because they have no choice. This dictionary provides those who disagree with evidence to the contrary." "Featuring hundreds of entries dealing with literary Utopias, historical alternatives and contemporary movements for social and political change, the book gives us a uniquely rich and imaginative snapshot of society in all its diversity, now and in the past. Part reference work, part sourcebook and pact polemic, The Dictionary of Alternatives provides a wealth of ideas for thinking about how we can live in the new century."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Publisher description
Contributor biographical information

ISBN:

1842773321 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
184277333X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781842773321 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9781842773338 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Utopias Dictionaries.
Social structure.
Structure sociale.
social structure.
Utopias.
Utopie
Utopieën.
organisaties
organizations
cultuur
culture
woordenboeken
dictionaries
organisatie
organization
Organization Science
Organisatiekunde

Form/genre:

Dictionary
Wörterbuch.
Dictionaries.
dictionaries.
Dictionnaires.

Added entries:

Fournier, Valérie, 1974-
Reedy, Patrick.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287190
Call No.: BIB 228072
Status: Available