NUCUSP members – Lisa Garforth and Ruth Houghton – have been part of the AHRC network on Utopia and Failure that ran from 2023-2026 and included a workshop in Newcastle in 2024. The Special Issue from this network has just been published in the European Journal Social Theory.

Special Issue in the European Journal of Social Theory

Garforth, Lisa. “Climate and Failure: For a Weak Utopianism.” European Journal of Social Theory, ahead of print, November 6, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310251392829.

Thaler, Mathias, Davina Cooper, and Ruth Houghton. “Introduction: Utopia and Failure: A Complex Relationship.” European Journal of Social Theory, ahead of print, June 2, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310261452967.