Abstract This paper introduces liquid consumer utopias, defined as market-mediated expressions of individuals’ desires to re-imagine and re-construct reality, re-frame the present. conceptual lens illuminates previously untheorized consumption phenomena, which are socially constructed, often critical, efforts enact an alternative way being in increasingly uncertain unpredictable world. Three ke...

This article analyses reproductive labour in everyday utopias. Everyday utopias refer to spaces and practices that experiment with alternative forms of life create new social imaginaries. Drawing on ethnographic research three Finland, the argues plays a key role transformative politics by prefiguring socially ecologically sustainable not conducive capitalist logic. The brings together feminist...

At the center of a socialist alternative to capitalism, in whatever way socialism is understood, is the problem of economic institutions, specifi cally the social organization of power over the allocation of resources and control of production and distribution. In statist conceptions of socialism such power and control operates primarily through the state, in the strongest version through the d...