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intimations ofethicsand politics, and fastened

on the last two. But Harvey (2000b, p. 196)

has now returned to these themes to advocate a

‘spatiotemporal’ or ‘dialecticalutopianism’

that is ‘rooted in our present possibilities at

the same time as it points towards different

trajectories of human uneven geographical

developments’. While he still insists on the

need to define choices and confront issues

of closure so as to define ‘that port to which

we might want to sail’, other critics, some influ-

enced in particular byfeminismand by critical

debates within utopian studies, have empha-

sized a partial and fluid approach to utopia.

This gives a central role todesireand to moving

beyond present limits into spaces and futures

that are necessarily as yet unknown. dp

Suggested reading

Harvey (2000b); Levitas (1990).

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