The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization [Paperback]

'There is no alternative to free market liberalism and managerialism', is the orthodoxy of the twenty-first century. All too often, ordinary people across the world are being told that the problem of organization is already solved, or that it is being solved somewhere else, or that it need not concern them because they have no choices. This dictionary provides those who disagree with the evidence. 

Using hundreds of entries and cross-references, it proves that there are many alternatives to the way that we currently organize ourselves. These alternatives could be expressed as fictional utopias, they could be excavated from the past, or they could be described in terms of the contemporary politics of anti-corporate protest, environmentalism, feminism and localism. 

Part reference work, part source book, and part polemic, this dictionary provides a rich understanding of the ways in which fiction, history and today's politics provide different ways of thinking about how we can and should organize for the coming century. 

Introduction
 
ABBEY OF THELEME
AGORA
ALTERNATIVE GEOPOLITICS
AMAZONS
AMERICA
AMISH
ANABAPTISTS
ANARCHISM
ANTI-CAPITALISM
APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY
ARCADIA
ARTS AND CRAFTS
ATLANTIS
ATTAC
AUROVILLE
AUTO-DIDACTISM
AUTONOMIA
 
BAKUNIN, MIKHAIL
BALL, JOHN
BARTERING
BATTLE OF SEATTLE
BLAC(K) BLOC
BLAKE, WILLIAM
BOOKCHIN, MURRAY
BOURNVILLE
BRAY, JOHN FRANCIS
BRETHREN OF THE FREE SPIRIT
BROOK FARM
BUREAUCRACY
 
CAPTAIN SWING
CARNIVAL
CATHARS
CENTRI SOCIALI
CHIPKO MOVEMENT
CHRISTIANIA
CHRISTIANOPOLIS
CITY OF THE SUN
CITY STATE
COCKAIGNE
COLLECTIVISM
COMMONS
COMMONWEALTH
COMMUNE
COMMUNISM
COMMUNITARIANISM
COMMUNITY
COMMUNITY GARDENS