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(Re)Imagining Utopias

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Reimagining Utopias

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This intellectual project was launched out of a desire to explore the theoretical and methodological dilemmas encountered in designing and conducting education research in post-socialist settings. We allude to “(re)imagining utopias” in our title both to signal that the volume engages with the shifting social imaginaries of postsocialist transformations and to highlight the ways in which social science research is itself fully implicated in the project of producing and managing collective visions of the future.

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  1. Noah W. Sobe
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Arizona State University, USA

    Iveta Silova

  2. Loyola University Chicago, USA

    Noah W. Sobe

  3. School for International Training Graduate Institute, World Learning, USA

    Alla Korzh

  4. University of Toronto, Canada

    Serhiy Kovalchuk

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Sobe, N.W., Silova, I., Korzh, A., Kovalchuk, S. (2017). (Re)Imagining Utopias. In: Silova, I., Sobe, N.W., Korzh, A., Kovalchuk, S. (eds) Reimagining Utopias. Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-011-0_18

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