Retopia

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 The peripheral regions in Europe are facing a crisis triangle: depopulation the rise of the âuselessâ class and outdated social welfare systems.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 âretopiaâ 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 âleftoverâ spaces such as Sicily Western Latvia or Northern Bulgaria retopian redevelopment schemes offer new perspectives on âruined spacesâ. 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 Politics and Future and Anticipation Studies. . Language: English