Ivagining worlds: on Ursula K. Le Guin, social science-fiction, and altertopias
Abstract Ethnography-based Anthropology and Science Fiction can engage in a productive dialogue since both address what is proposed as “altertopias”. Utopias, dystopias, and cultural alterity share the possibility of imagining social and cultural organizations different from both those of the author...
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| description | Abstract Ethnography-based Anthropology and Science Fiction can engage in a productive dialogue since both address what is proposed as “altertopias”. Utopias, dystopias, and cultural alterity share the possibility of imagining social and cultural organizations different from both those of the authors and those of the readers. These imaginations are intrinsically creative/artistic and political at the same time, and they critique power structures, especially when approached through a feminist stance. Inspired by the literary work of Ursula Le Guin, the article takes this further by experimenting with the inclusion of a fictional piece of “Social science fiction” that itself plays on Le Guin’s themes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-de0a3b79472c4ef6b9ef313b773f5ab92023-10-17T07:39:16ZengUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulHorizontes Antropológicos1806-99832023-10-01296710.1590/1806-9983e670404Ivagining worlds: on Ursula K. Le Guin, social science-fiction, and altertopiasMiguel Vale de Almeidahttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9879-0677Abstract Ethnography-based Anthropology and Science Fiction can engage in a productive dialogue since both address what is proposed as “altertopias”. Utopias, dystopias, and cultural alterity share the possibility of imagining social and cultural organizations different from both those of the authors and those of the readers. These imaginations are intrinsically creative/artistic and political at the same time, and they critique power structures, especially when approached through a feminist stance. Inspired by the literary work of Ursula Le Guin, the article takes this further by experimenting with the inclusion of a fictional piece of “Social science fiction” that itself plays on Le Guin’s themes.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-71832023000300404&tlng=enUrsula Le Guinscience fictionaltertopiaethnography |
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| title | Ivagining worlds: on Ursula K. Le Guin, social science-fiction, and altertopias |
| title_full | Ivagining worlds: on Ursula K. Le Guin, social science-fiction, and altertopias |
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| title_sort | ivagining worlds on ursula k le guin social science fiction and altertopias |
| topic | Ursula Le Guin science fiction altertopia ethnography |
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