15 Mark Featherstone - Utopian Imagination and the Disenchanted University

Mark Featherstone joins us for this episode of Collective Intellectualities. Mark is Professor of Social and Political Theory at Keele University, UK. He is author of Tocqueville’s Virus: Utopia and Dystopia in Western Social and Political Theory (Routledge, 2007), Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, and the Global Imaginary (Routledge, 2017), and editor of The Sociology of Debt (Policy, 2019), and Writing the Body Politic: A John O’Neill Reader (Routledge, 2019). He is also editor of Cultural Politics (Duke University Press). We chat about the disenchanted university, themes of utopia and dystopia, and how growing up in Hull in the 1970s influenced the direction of his research.

Links to select works:

Tocqueville’s Virus: Utopia and Dystopia in Western Social and Political Theory (Routledge, 2007)

https://www.routledge.com/Tocquevilles-Virus-Utopia-and-Dystopia-in-Western-Social-and-Political/Featherstone/p/book/9780415542470

Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, and the Global Imaginary (Routledge, 2017)

https://www.routledge.com/Planet-Utopia-Utopia-Dystopia-and-Globalisation/Featherstone/p/book/9780367864255

The Sociology of Debt (editor, Policy, 2019)

https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-sociology-of-debt

Writing the Body Politic: A John O’Neill Reader (editor, Routledge, 2019)

https://www.routledge.com/Writing-the-Body-Politic-A-John-ONeill-Reader/Featherstone-Kemple/p/book/9780367726805