Bastards of Utopia: Living Radical Politics after Socialism

by Maple Razsa

Bastards of Utopia, the companion to a feature documentary film of the same name, explores the experiences and political imagination of young radical activists in the former Yugoslavia, participants in what they call alterglobalization or "globalization from below." Ethnographer Maple Razsa follows individual activists from the transnational protests against globalization of the early 2000s through the Occupy encampments. His portrayal of activism is both empathetic and unflinching—an engaged, elegant meditation on the struggle to re-imagine leftist politics and the power of a country's youth.

Genres: Nonfiction

296 pages, Paperback

First published February 25, 2015

Reviews

[Maarya Abbasi · Rating 5 out of 5]

holy holy holy holy holy shit

this is the kind of ethnography i've been waiting my whole life to read

will forever be processing this work, i think

damn

(more thoughts to come)

[Caroline Shin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read for Professor Rasza’s GS352 Liberation struggles class — makes me want to become a global studies major….