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Interesting article development of visions of a 'protected Earth' 👇 To me it has strong utopian strains, specifically around the method used, although it is not framed in that way

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The Global Politics of a Protected Earth
Abstract. The vision of humans living sustainably on a “protected earth” has a long history. Support for this vision has been surging in recent years, coming into sharp relief in 2022 when negotiators...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
drmccarthy.bsky.social
Submitted manuscript 'Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations' edited with @mattfluck.bsky.social to Bristol Uni Press yesterday - forthcoming in 2026

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November 7, 2025 at 3:19 AM
drmccarthy.bsky.social
Special Issue of JIPT 👇 will be of interest to IR folks looking at utopia in world politics

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Global crises and utopian hope: An introduction - Patrick Hayden, Chamsy el-Ojeili, 2025
As humanity faces the prospect of imminent civilizational catastrophe, the aspirational sense that the future contains the potential for better ways of living a...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:14 AM
drmccarthy.bsky.social
Clive Gabay's paper on utopia and failure in IR repays repeated engagement - check it out 👇

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Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better: IR theory, utopia, and a failure to (re)imagine failure | International Theory | Cambridge Core
Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better: IR theory, utopia, and a failure to (re)imagine failure - Volume 14 Issue 2
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June 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
drmccarthy.bsky.social
Can't remember if I shared this before, so sharing again - very good article by Tom Vaughan on nuclear futures and the need for utopia

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Post-nuclear worldmaking and counter-hegemony: Against catastrophic failures of imagination | European Journal of International Security | Cambridge Core
Post-nuclear worldmaking and counter-hegemony: Against catastrophic failures of imagination - Volume 9 Issue 3
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June 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
drmccarthy.bsky.social
Adding this one to a student reading list on war after accidentally omitting it in previous versions:

Alex Bellamy, World Peace (And How to Achieve It), OUP, 2019

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February 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
drmccarthy.bsky.social
New article on dystopia and the radical right 👇 by @rita-abrahamsen.bsky.social and Michael C. Williams

Continuing theme from their overarching project, they find radical right using 'critical dystopias' (a la Tom Moylan, etc) for non-progressive ends

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Radical Right Dystopias in the Global Culture Wars
Abstract. Despite the pervasive description of our times as dystopian, the disciplines of political theory and international relations seldom consider the
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January 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
drmccarthy.bsky.social
Interesting article in Int'l Studies Quarterly conducting an international survey experiment of citizens (42K across 17 countries) on the idea of world government - open access below 👇

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Who on Earth Wants a World Government, What Kind, and Why? An International Survey Experiment
Abstract. Amidst multiple transnational crises, global governance has retaken center stage in academic and public debates. While previous generations of th
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December 19, 2024 at 2:41 AM
drmccarthy.bsky.social
Reading an interesting (open access!) article on utopia and method, looking at Jameson re: the US Army and the British Post office - Martin Greenwood, Sociology, 2023

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Real Utopia as a Method? Utopian-Sociological Paths from Jameson’s Universal Army to a Postcapitalist Post Office - Martin Greenwood, 2023
This article uses Frederic Jameson’s An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army as the inspiration for a utopian-sociological method that brings toge...
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December 12, 2024 at 3:29 AM
drmccarthy.bsky.social
CFood (in)security, the moral economy, and Ubuntu in South Africa: a Southern perspective

Very interesting article on Ubuntu practices as a form of moral economy and (my gloss) an instance of catalytic utopianism

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Citations: Food (in)security, the moral economy, and Ubuntu in South Africa: a Southern perspective
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December 9, 2024 at 9:57 AM
drmccarthy.bsky.social
Had the chance to present today an intro chapter for an edited book (w/ Matt Fluck, Westminster) on Utopia in IR to the Politics Research Seminar @ Unimelb. Terrific feedback from the Unimelb IR team!

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November 27, 2024 at 9:28 AM