Teaching resources for utopia and alternatives
Scholarly Resources
Akerlof , G (1982). Labour Contracts as Partial gift Exchange. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 97(4), 543-569.
Arvidsson, A. (2013). Thinking beyond neo-liberalism: A response to Detlev Zwick. Ephemera: theory & politics in organization, 13(2), 407-412.
Arvidsson, A., & Peitersen, N. (2013). The ethical economy: Rebuilding value after the crisis. Columbia University Press.
Atzeni, M. (2012). An Introduction to Theoretical Issues. Alternative Work Organizations, 1.
Bellah, E. R. N., Madsen, R., Sullivan, W. M., Swidler, A., & Tipton, S. M. (2007). Habits of the heart: Individualism and commitment in American life. Univ of California Press.
Bellah, R. N. (1992). The good society. Vintage.
Berger, P. L. (1987). The capitalist revolution: Fifty propositions about prosperity, equality, and liberty. Aldershot: Gower.
Cheney, G., Santa Cruz, I., Peredo, A. M., & Nazareno, E. (2014). Worker cooperatives as an organizational alternative: Challenges, achievements and promise in business governance and ownership. Organization, 21(5), 591-603.
Dana, L. P. (2007). International handbook of research on indigenous entrepreneurship. Edward Elgar Publishing
de Sousa Santos, B. (2004). The world social forum: toward a counter-hegemonic globalisation (part I). In World Social Forum: Challenging Empires.
Fanon, F. (1965). The wretched of the earth. Grove Press.
Fanon, F. (1967). A dying colonialism. Grove Press.
Fanon, F. (2008). Black skin, white masks. Grove press.
Fournier, V. (2008) Escaping from the economy: the politics of degrowth. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 28(11/12): 528-545.
Fried, G. F. & Wolff, R. D. (1994) Modern Ancients: Self-Employed Truckers. Rethinking Marxism 7(4), 103-115.
Gibson-Graham, J. K. (1996a). “The” End of Capitalism (as We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press.
Gibson-Graham, J. K. (1996b). Queer(y)ing Capitalist Organization. Organization, 3(4): 541-545.
Gibson-Graham, J. K. (2003) Enabling Ethical Economies: Cooperativism and Class. Critical Sociology, 29 (2)123-161
Gibson-Graham, J. K. (2008) Diverse economies: performative practices for `other worlds'. Progress in Human Geography, 32(5): 613-632
Gibson-Graham, J. K. (2006). A postcapitalist politics. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press.
Gibson-Graham, J. K., Cameron, J., & Healy, S. (2013). Take back the economy: an ethical guide for transforming our communities. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press.
Gorbis, M. (2013). The Nature of the Future. Dispatches from the Socialstructed World. New York, NY: Free Press. (Website http://www.iftf.org/natureofthefuture/)
Healy, S. (2009). Economies, alternative. In Kitchin R., Thrift N. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Vol. 3, pp. 338-344. Oxford: Elsevier.
Korten, D. C. (2015). Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth. Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler.
Kropotkin, P. (1910). Anarchism. The Encyclopaedia Britannica. Available here https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1910/britanni...
Kropotkin, P. (1989). Memoirs of a Revolutionist. Black Rose Books Ltd.
Kropotkin, P. (1990). The conquest of bread. Black Rose Books Ltd.
Kropotkin, P. (2012). Mutual aid: A factor of evolution. Courier Corporation.
Laidler, H. W. (1932). The road ahead: a primer of capitalism and socialism. New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell.
Lee, M. (2016). The Nature of Human Resource Development. An Autoethnographical Exploration of Becoming. Routledge [Ch. 8: The Future Self: heroes, symbiosis, choice and the story in particular].
Levitas, R. (2013). Utopia as Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society. Palgrave Macmillan.
Marx, K., & Engels, F. (2002). The communist manifesto. Penguin.
Nozick, R. (1974). Anarchy, state, and utopia. Basic books.
Offer, A. (1997). Between the gift and the market: the economy of regard. The Economic history review 50 (3), 450-476.
Parker, M. (Ed.) (2002). Utopia and Organization. Wiley-Blackwell.
Parker, M., Cheney, G., Fournier, V., & Land, C. (Eds.). (2014). The Routledge companion to alternative organization. London: Routledge.
Parker, M., Fournier, V., & Reedy, P. (2007). The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization. London: Zed Books.
Polanyi, K. (1944). The Great Transformation: The political and economic origins of our time. Beacon Press.
Proudhon, P. J. (1969). Selected writings of Pierre-Joseph proudhon. Anchor Books.
Proudhon, P. J. (2013). General idea of the revolution in the nineteenth century. Courier Corporation.
Proudhon, P. J., & Langlois, A. J. (1876). What is property?: an inquiry into the principle of right and of government. BR Tucker.
Rifkin, J. (2014). The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
Ruppert, P. (1986). Reader in a Strange Land: The Activity of Reading Literary Utopias. University of Georgia Press.
Simons, T., & Ingram, P. (2000). The kibbutz for organizational behavior.Research in Organizational Behavior, 22, 283-343.
Van der Veen, M. (2001) Rethinking Commodification and Prostitution: An effort at Peacemaking in the Battles over Prostitution’, Rethinking Marxism, 13(2), 30-51
Wolff, R. D. (2012). Democracy at work: A cure for capitalism. Chicago, IL: Haymarket books.
Wright, E. O. (2012). Transforming Capitalism through Real Utopias. American Sociological Review, 78(1), 1–25. doi:10.1177/0003122412468882
Fiction
Bellamy, E. (1888). Looking backward 2000-1887. Houghton Mifflin
Campanella, T. (2007). The city of the sun. Cosimo, Inc..
Le Guin U. K. (1974). The Dispossessed. Harper & Row.
Le Guin, U. K. (2012). The left hand of darkness. Hachette UK.
More, T. (1869) Utopia. A. Murray & son.
Orwell, G. (2006). 1984. Editions Underbahn Ltd.
Rand, A. (1994). The Fountainhead. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Rhinehart, L. (1998). Dice Man. Penguin.
Steinbeck, J. (2006). The Grapes of Wrath. London: Penguin.
Blog post about the positive impact of reading fiction on creativity
Videos
Annie Leonard - The Story of Solutions
Bruce Schneier - The Battle for Power on the Internet: Bruce Schneier at TEDxCambridge 2013
Frans De Waal - Moral behavior in animals
Matthieu Ricard - How to let altruism be your guide
Related websites and examples of practice
Utopia – British Library
About Catalan Integral Cooperatives
- Spain's CIC Tries to Build a New Economy from the Ground Up
- On the Lam with Bank Robber Enric Duran
- Cooperativa Integral Catalana as a living model of open cooperativism
Inter States: A Prospective Novel of Our Future
Charles Eisenstein – Sacred Economics
Take Back the Economy
Community Economies Collective and Research Network
Sherry Turkle at TED
A blog post about Working Papers for a New Society
Other suggestions for teaching purposes
Books of Octavia E. Butler
Books of David Wood
Books of Ursula K. Le Guin
Novels and films of Nevil Shute
Materials from classic social anthropological and ethnographic field research like the Kwakiutl, the Nuer, Azande, Village on the Border, Talley's Corner, Coal is our Life, Street Corner Society etc.
Journal: Building Sustainable Legacies