The meaning of the term utopia is rarely questioned, although it is used in widely differing
ways. This classic text, first published in 1990, analyses the contested concept of utopia and …

Utopia should be understood as a method rather than a goal. This book rehabilitates utopia
as a repressed dimension of the sociological and in the process produces the Imaginary …

The purpose of this project was to review existing sources on multi-dimensional disadvantage
or severe forms of social exclusion characterised as ‘deep exclusion’; to recommend …

This article argues that utopia is both prevalent and necessary. It begins by looking at the
presence in contemporary culture of an existential quest for utopia, figured as ‘looking for the …

… Ruth Levitas argues that there has been a shift away from understanding social exclusion
as primarily a problem of poverty, towards questions of social integration through paid work …

This report presents the initial findings from the most comprehensive survey of poverty and
social exclusion ever undertaken in Britain. The study was undertaken by researchers at four …

This article argues that the concept of social exclusion, which was orig inally developed to
describe the manifold consequences of poverty and inequality, has become embedded as a …

In so far as Ernst Bloch's work has been incorporated into Utopian Studies, it has been seen
as a justification and celebration of utopianism, and welcomed because of the ever-present …

The concepts of social exclusion and inclusion are now firmly entrenched in both British and
European government policy, as well as having increasingly wide currency outside the …

… The right of Christina Pantazis, David Gordon and Ruth Levitas to be identified as the editors
of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the 1988 Copyright, Designs …