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Alternative title: Social Alternatives : Utopias Dystopias : Alternative Visions
Issue Details: First known date: 2009... vol. 28 no. 3 2009 of Social Alternatives est. 1977 Social Alternatives
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2009 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Editor's Introduction : Revisiting Literary Utopias and Dystopias : Some New Genres, Clare Archer-Lean , single work column

Since Thomas More's first use of the word utopia in 1516 it has conjured multiple and ambiguous connotations. Utopia and its defining antithesis dystopia can be articulations of what we wish to become or to avoid becoming, an investigation of hope and the potential for transformation. Utopias can evoke dichotomies between the liberal realisation and the impossible ideal (Kumar 1991); or a contrast between the concrete and closed social plan as opposed to the impetus toward hope in the small details of various cultural contexts (Jameson 2006).

(Source : Social Alternatives : Utopias Dystopias : Alternative Visions, 2009)

 (p. 3-7)
Why Australia?i"...this hills hoist", Heather Taylor Johnson , single work poetry (p. 7)
Staying Alivei"she wakes", Agnieszka Niemira-Dowjat , single work poetry (p. 14)
Work Smarti"Want serious money?", Geoffrey Quinlan , single work poetry (p. 19)
Salvation Army Hosteli"Each morning", Jules Leigh Koch , single work poetry (p. 28)
The Victimi"he thrust", Adrian Flavell , single work poetry (p. 28)
Back to the Future in Dead Europe, Eleni Pavlides , single work criticism
Dead Europe is a phenomenal and terrible act of imaginative writing. Robert Manne (not unjustifiably) has already criticized its use of 'some of the oldest and most consequential anti-Semitic libels' (2005, 53). Briefly, the book tells the story of Isaac Rafits, a homosexual Greek Australian photographer who travels back to Europe to locate two ancestral legacies in Greece. The first is in his mother's village, where a curse was unleashed on his family because his grandparents murdered a young Jewish boy in the Second World War, a boy they had sworn to protect. His father's Greek, Communist Party membership badge is Isaac's second legacy and he carries the badge with him throughout his travels. And so begins Isaac's modern day pilgrimage through Western Europe. This article goes on to describe the dystopian future which Dead Europe imagines in the time tense of the 'future-present', wherein Tsiolkas creates the world as a warning; a world which demands a new Enlightenment.

(Source : Social Alternatives : Utopias Dystopias : Alternative Visions, 2009)

 (p. 39-41)
A Christmas Card Listi"is saved in Household Files", B. N. Oakman , single work poetry (p. 56)
A Utopic Reflection, Marcus Bussey , single work criticism (p. 57-59)
Zarathustrai"It is not without a wrench I have", Ron Pretty , single work poetry (p. 59)
Having a Field Day, Jane Downing , single work short story (p. 60-63)
Bent Nailsi"There were plenty of witnesses.", Graham Rowlands , single work poetry (p. 63)
My Uncle's Facei"The coast road is a long and straight line", Jill Lindquist , single work poetry (p. 66)
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