Everyday Utopia : Better Ways of Living Equally

Anthropologist Kristen Ghodsee looks at pioneering experiments in communal living to present a rousing argument for rethinking what we mean by home.

"A must-read" - Thomas Piketty

"Just wonderful" - Angela Saini

Throughout history and around the world today, forward-thinking communities have pioneered alternative ways of living together, sharing property and raising children. In Everyday Utopia, anthropologist Kristen Ghodsee explores what we can learn from these experiments - from the ancient Greek commune founded by Pythagoras to the trail-blazing feminists of the French Revolution, from the cohousing movement in contemporary Denmark to the flourishing ecovillages of Colombia and Portugal.

She shows why utopian thinking is essential to making a fairer world and that many of the best ways of getting there begin at home.

"This warm, intelligent and lucid book takes us on a deep dive into how people have created better systems for living - systems that actually work" - Robert Waldinger, author of The Good Life and director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development

"Exhilarating. A powerful reminder that dreaming of better worlds is not just some fantastical project but also a very serious political one" - Rebecca Traister, author of Good and Mad

"Splendid. Invigorating writing for a cheerless era" - Yanis Varoufakis, author of Technofeudalism

"A vision of what our future could be if we dare to dream" - Susan Neiman, Left Is Not Woke