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By way of a conclusion, I am providing a brief overview of utopian communities in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as on communal studies and further novels that treat utopian communities. I tentatively argue that the ideas of closure and of privilege still dictate how we think of utopia and nation to this day.
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For an overview over the ‘long’ history of utopian communities, readers may consult, for example, Timothy Miller’s extensive work in The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America: 1900–1960 (1998), The 60’s Communes: Hippies and Beyond (1999), The Encyclopedic Guide to American Intentional Communities (2015), and Communes in America 1975–2000 (2019); Yaacov Oved’s Two Hundred Years of American Communes (1987); America’s Communal Utopias (1997) edited by Donald E. Pitzer; or Communal Utopias and the American Experience: Secular Communities, 1824–2000 (2004) by Robert P. Sutton.
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Further discussions on postcolonial utopianism can be found, for example, in works by Dohra Ahmad (2009), Bill Ashcroft (2012), Antonis Balasopoulos (2004), Antoine Hatzenberger (2003), Corina Kesler (2012), and Ralph Pordzik (2001); some of them, however, stretch the term way beyond the definition used in this book.
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For an engaging discussion of utopianism under globalization, see Utopia in the Age of Globalization: Space, Representation, and the World-System by Robert T. Tally Jr. (2013).
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Adamik, V. (2020). ‘To Begin the World Over Again’: Conclusion. In: In Search of the Utopian States of America. Palgrave Studies in Utopianism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60279-6_8
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