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Everyday Utopia

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History is made by the dreamers ... A must-read

THOMAS PIKETTY, author of A Brief History of Equality

This warm, intelligent and lucid book takes us on a deep dive into how people have created better systems for living – systems that actually work

ROBERT WALDINGER, author of The Good Life and director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development

Exhilarating. A powerful reminder that dreaming of better worlds is not just some fantastical project but also a very serious political one

Kristen Ghodsee is back with another splendid insight: utopia can and ought to be an everyday thing. In every home. Invigorating writing for a cheerless era

YANIS VAROUFAKIS, author of Technofeudalism

Liberating and inspirational ... Kristen Ghodsee's sweeping feminist history of society at its most creative

ADA CALHOUN, author of Why We Can't Sleep

A vision of what could be our future if we dare to dream

Better Ways of Living Equally

Throughout history and around the world today, forward-thinking communities have pioneered alternative ways of living together, sharing property and raising children. In Everyday Utopia, anthropologist Kristen Ghodsee explores what we can learn from these experiments – from the ancient Greek commune founded by Pythagoras to the trail-blazing feminists of the French Revolution, from the cohousing movement in contemporary Denmark to the flourishing ecovillages of Colombia and Portugal. She shows why utopian thinking is essential to making a fairer world and that many of the best ways of getting there begin at home.

In Praise of Radical Alternatives to the Traditional Family Home

Anthropologist Kristen Ghodsee looks at pioneering experiments in communal living to present a rousing argument for rethinking what we mean by home. 
 
‘A must-read’ THOMAS PIKETTY 
‘Just wonderful’ ANGELA SAINI 
 
Throughout history and around the world today, forward-thinking communities have pioneered alternative ways of living together, sharing property and raising children. In Everyday Utopia, anthropologist Kristen Ghodsee explores what we can learn from these experiments – from the ancient Greek commune founded by Pythagoras to the trail-blazing feminists of the French Revolution, from the cohousing movement in contemporary Denmark to the flourishing ecovillages of Colombia and Portugal. She shows why utopian thinking is essential to making a fairer world and that many of the best ways of getting there begin at home. 
 
‘This warm, intelligent and lucid book takes us on a deep dive into how people have created better systems for living – systems that actually work’ ROBERT WALDINGER, author of The Good Life and director of the Harvard Study of Adult Developmet 
 
‘Exhilarating. A powerful reminder that dreaming of better worlds is not just some fantastical project but also a very serious political one’ REBECCA TRAISTER, author of Good and Mad 
 
‘Splendid. Invigorating writing for a cheerless era' YANIS VAROUFAKIS, author of Technofeudalism 
 
‘A vision of what our future could be if we dare to dream’ SUSAN NEIMAN, Left Is Not Woke

Kristen Ghodsee is a feminist ethnographer and the author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism. She is professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for her work in anthropology and cultural studies. Her articles and essays have appeared in many publications including the New York Times and the Washington Post.

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History is made by the dreamers ... A must-read

Just wonderful

This warm, intelligent and lucid book takes us on a deep dive into how people have created better systems for living – systems that actually work

Exhilarating. A powerful reminder that dreaming of better worlds is not just some fantastical project but also a very serious political one

Kristen Ghodsee is back with another splendid insight: utopia can and ought to be an everyday thing. In every home. Invigorating writing for a cheerless era

Liberating and inspirational ... Kristen Ghodsee's sweeping feminist history of society at its most creative

A vision of what could be our future if we dare to dream

Compelling ... spirited and inspiring

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