[Commlist] New Book: Retopia-Creating New Spaces of Possibility

Retopia-Creating New Spaces of Possibility by Dirk Hoyer is now 
available as an e-book and hardcover.


Retopia tells the story of social innovation in times of crisis, and 
through its cross-disciplinary narrative it goes beyond existing forms 
of future anticipation and maps out a practice-based approach to the 
creation of new realities. It explores how new imaginaries, social 
experiments, and laboratories of societies can create spaces of 
possibilities, revalidate the peripheries, and create new forms of 
social coherence.

The peripheral regions in Europe are facing a crisis triangle: 
depopulation, the rise of the 'useless' class, and outdated social 
welfare systems. It is a crisis of political imaginaries and a lack of 
inspiring political stories. In response to this, the book specifically 
focuses on the concept of 'retopia', the idea of creating inclusive 
spaces of social innovation that encourage active participation. Through 
the creation of relocalized societies with a high degree of autonomy in 
'leftover' spaces, such as Sicily, Western Latvia, or Northern Bulgaria, 
retopian redevelopment schemes offer new perspectives on 'ruined 
spaces'. Retopia uncovers the common links and limitations of utopian 
studies, future studies, degrowth, narratology, the commons, and 
political geography.


Retopia: Creating New Spaces of Possibility is an articulation of the 
potentialities of social innovation, political imaginaries, and future 
images, provoking a stimulating discussion among scholars and students 
in the fields of Storytelling, Politics and Future and Anticipation Studies.


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