Prefiguring Utopia - The Auroville Experiment

Auroville in Tamil Nadu, South India, is an internationally recognized endeavour in prefiguring an alternative society: the largest, most diverse, dynamic and enduring of intentional communities worldwide.
This book is a critical and insightful analysis of the utopian practice of this unique spiritual township, by a native scholar. The author explores how Auroville's founding spiritual and societal ideals are engaged in its communal political and economic organization, as well as various cultural practices and what enables and sustains this prefiguratively utopian practice.
This in-depth, autoethnographic case study is an important resource for understanding prefigurative and utopian experiments - their challenges, potentialities and significance for the advancement of human society.

About the author

Suryamayi Aswini Clarence-Smith is a scholar, activist and educator based in Auroville, India, the largest intentional community in the world, where she is affiliated with the Sri Aurobindo Institute of International Educational Research.

Summary

This book, offering in-depth analysis from a native scholar, is a critical examination of the world-renowned community Auroville located in Tamil Nadu, South India as a site of spiritually prefigurative utopian practice.

Product details

• Authors: Suryamayi Aswini Clarence-Smith, Suryamayi (Sri Aurobindo Institute of International Educational Research) Aswini Clarence-Smith
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781529230789
• ISBN: 978-1-5292-3078-9
• No. of pages: 202
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 463 g
• Series: Alternatives to Capitalism in; Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education