{"product_id":"9781529925487-everyday-utopia","title":"Everyday Utopia","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBetter Ways of Living Equally\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthropologist Kristen Ghodsee looks at pioneering experiments in communal living to present a rousing argument for rethinking what we mean by home.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A must-read’ \u003cb\u003eTHOMAS PIKETTY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Just wonderful’ \u003cb\u003eANGELA SAINI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout history and around the world today, forward-thinking communities have pioneered alternative ways of living together, sharing property and raising children. In \u003ci\u003eEveryday Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e, anthropologist Kristen Ghodsee explores what we can learn from these experiments – from the ancient Greek commune founded by Pythagoras to the trail-blazing feminists of the French Revolution, from the cohousing movement in contemporary Denmark to the flourishing ecovillages of Colombia and Portugal. She shows why utopian thinking is essential to making a fairer world and that many of the best ways of getting there begin at home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘This warm, intelligent and lucid book takes us on a deep dive into how people have created better systems for living – systems that actually work’ \u003c\/b\u003eROBERT WALDINGER, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Good Life \u003c\/i\u003eand director of the Harvard Study of Adult Developmet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Exhilarating. A powerful reminder that dreaming of better worlds is not just some fantastical project but also a very serious political one’\u003c\/b\u003e REBECCA TRAISTER, author of \u003ci\u003eGood and Mad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Splendid. Invigorating writing for a cheerless era'\u003c\/b\u003e YANIS VAROUFAKIS, author of \u003ci\u003eTechnofeudalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A vision of what our future could be if we dare to dream’\u003c\/b\u003e SUSAN NEIMAN, Left Is Not Woke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41540128112737,"sku":"9781529925487","price":9.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32315712.jpg?v=1737186517","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529925487-everyday-utopia","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}