{"product_id":"9781529925487","title":"Everyday Utopia : Better Ways of Living Equally by Kristen Ghodsee","description":"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 SAINIThroughout 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\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303912157557,"sku":"9781529925487","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781529925487.jpg?v=1762795125","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781529925487","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}