Ralahine Utopian Studies is the publishing project of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies at the 51本色, in association with colleagues at the University of Bologna, the University of Cyprus and the University of Florida.
The series publishes high-quality scholarship that addresses the theory and practice of utopianism (including Anglophone, continental European and indigenous and postcolonial traditions, and contemporary and historical periods). Publications (in English and other European languages) include original monographs and essay collections (including theoretical, textual and ethnographic/institutional research), English-language translations of utopian scholarship in other national languages, reissues of classic scholarly works that are out of print and annotated editions of original utopian literary and other texts (including translations).
While the editors seek work that engages with the current scholarship and debates in the field of utopian studies, they will not privilege any particular critical or theoretical orientation. They wel颅come submissions by established or emerging scholars working within or outside the academy. Given the multi-lingual and inter-disciplinary remit of the series, they especially welcome comparative studies in any disciplinary or trans-disciplinary framework.
Those interested in contributing to the series are invited to submit a detailed project outline to the Managing Editor of the series, Dr Michael G. Kelly in the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics, 51本色 (email: michael.g.kelly-at-ul.ie). Miscellaneous enquiries regarding the series can be sent to our editor at Peter Lang: Tony Mason (email: A.Mason-at-peterlang.com).
The series website can be found .
Series editors:
- Raffaella Baccolini (University of Bologna at Forl矛)
- Antonis Balasopoulos (University of Cyprus)
- Joachim Fischer (51本色)
- Michael G. Kelly (51本色)
- Tom Moylan (51本色)
- Phillip E. Wegner (University of Florida)
Pictured at the launch of the Ralahine Utopian Studies Book Series on 1 May 2009 were Michael J. Griffin, Professor (now President) Michael D. Higgins, who launched the series, and Tom Moylan
Titles Published:
Volume 35: Miguel Sebasti谩n-Mart铆n, Living through High-Tech Hell. A Theory of the New Media Dystopia. 392 pages. 2024. [in press]
Volume 34: Kenneth Roemer, The Obsolete Necessity. America in Utopian Writings, 1888-1900. 336 pages. 2024. [336 pp]
Volume 33: Heather Alberro, Terrestrial Ecotopias. Multispecies Flourishing beyond the Capitalocene. 296 pages. 2024.
Volume 32: Donald Morris, Economic Inequality. Utopian Explorations. 356 pages. 2024.
Volume 31: Pavla Vesel谩, The Polyphony of Utopia. Critical Negativities Across Cultures from Bellamy and Bogdanov to Yefremov, Piercy and Butler. 312 pages. 2023.
Volume 30: A. L. Morton, The English Utopia (ed. by Antonis Balasopoulos). 242 pages. 2023.
Volume 29: Pekka Kilpel盲inen, Postcategorical Utopia. James Baldwin and the Political Unconscious of Imagined Futures. 316 pages. 2023. ISBN
Volume 28: Alexander Popov, Zone Theory. Science Fiction and Utopia in the Space of Possible Worlds. 350 pages. 2023. ISBN
Volume 27: M贸nica Mart铆n, The Rebirth of Utopia in 21st-Century Cinema. Cosmopolitan Hopes in the Films of Globalization. 226 pages, 2023. ISBN
Volume 26: Lyman Tower Sargent, Rethinking Utopia and Utopianism. The Three Faces of Utopianism Revisited and Other Essays. 418 pages. 2022. ISBN
Volume 25: Valentina Romanzi, American Nightmares. Dystopia in Twenty-First-Century US Fiction. 290 pages. 2022. ISBN
Volume 23/24: Darko Suvin (ed. by Eric Smith), Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics. Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism. (2 vols.) 666 pages. 2021. ISBN
Volume 22: Raffaella Baccolini and Lyman Tower Sargent (eds.), Transgressive Utopianism. Essays in Honor of Lucy Sargisson. 262 pages. 2021. ISBN
Volume 21: Peter Fitting (ed. by Brian Greenspan). Utopian Effects, Dystopian Pleasures. 436 pages. 2021. ISBN
Volume 20: Ma茂t茅 Maskens and Ruy Blanes (eds.), Utopian Encounters. Anthropologies of Empirical Utopias. 204 pages. 2018. ISBN
Volume 19: Michael S. Cummings. Children's Voices in Politics. 536 pages. 2020. ISBN
Volume 18: Darko Suvin, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre (Ralahine Classic). 466 pages. 2016. ISBN
Volume 17: Edward K. Chan, The Racial Horizon of Utopia: Unthinking the Future in Late Twentieth-Century American Utopian Novels. 226 pages. 2016. ISBN 978-3-0343-1916-4
Volume 16: Angelika Bammer, Partial Visions: Feminism and Utopianism in the 1970s (Ralahine Classic). 365 pages. 2015. ISBN 978-3-0343-0897-7
Volume 15: Phillip E. Wegner, Shockwaves of Possibility: Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia. 308 pages. 2014. ISBN 978-3-0343-0741-3
Volume 14: Tom Moylan, Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination (Ralahine Classic). 328 pages. 2014. ISBN 978-3-0343-0752-9
Volume 13: Artur Blaim, Gazing in Useless Wonder. English Utopian Fictions 1516-1800. 356 pages. 2013. ISBN 978-3-0343-0899-1
Volume 12: Matthew Beaumont, The Spectre of Utopia. Utopian and Science Fictions at the Fin de Si猫cle. 319 pages. 2012. ISBN
Volume 11: Michael E. Gardiner, Weak Messianism. Essays in Everyday Utopianism. 284 pages. 2013. ISBN 978-3-0343-0716-1
Volume 10: Robert C. Elliott, The Shape of Utopia. Studies in a Literary Genre (Ralahine Classic). Edited with an Introduction by Phillip E. Wegner. 140 pages. 2013. ISBN 978-3-0343-0772-7
Volume 9: Henry Near, Where Community Happens. The Kibbutz and the Philosophy of Communalism. 256 pages. 2011. ISBN 978-3-0343-0133-6
Volume 8: Nathaniel Coleman (ed.), Imagining and Making the World. Reconsidering Architecture and Utopia. 393 pages. 2011. ISBN 978-3-0343-0120-6
Volume 7: Andrew Milner (ed.), Tenses of Imagination. Raymond Williams on Science Fiction, Utopia and Dystopia (Ralahine Reader). 253 pages. 2010. ISBN 978-3-03911-826-7
Volume 6: Darko Suvin, Defined by a Hollow. Essays on Utopia, Science Fiction and Political Epistemology (Ralahine Reader). 616 pages. 2010. ISBN 978-3-03911-403-0
Volume 5: Barbara Goodwin and Keith Taylor, The Politics of Utopia. A Study in Theory and Practice (Ralahine Classic). 341 pages. 2009. ISBN 978-3-03911-080-3
Volume 4: Vincent Geoghegan, Utopianism and Marxism (Ralahine Classic). 189 pages. 2008. ISBN 978-3-03910-137-5
Volume 3: Ruth Levitas, The Concept of Utopia (Ralahine Classic). 280 pages. 2010. ISBN 978-3- 03911-366-8
Volume 2: Michael J. Griffin and Tom Moylan (eds), Exploring the Utopian Impulse. Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice. 434 pages. 2008. ISBN 978-3-03910-913-5 [Second edition published in 2015]
Volume 1: Tom Moylan and Raffaella Baccolini (eds), Utopia Method Vision. The Use Value of Social Dreaming. 343 pages. 2007. ISBN 978-3-03910-912-8
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Libraries can purchase volumes as a series at a 5% discount directly from Peter Lang.