{"id":108,"date":"2026-03-17T17:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/?p=108"},"modified":"2026-03-17T17:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:27:18","slug":"new-podcast-utopia-as-a-method-in-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/2026\/03\/17\/new-podcast-utopia-as-a-method-in-law\/","title":{"rendered":"New Podcast &#8211; Utopia as a Method in Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NUCUSP Member, Ruth Houghton took part in a discussion on &#8216;Utopia as a Method&#8217; for the <em>Talking about Methods<\/em> (Frontiers\u00a0of Socio-Legal Studies) podcast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the episode, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Aislinn Fanning, Cristy Clark, Zoe Tongue and Ruth Houghton about utopia as a method. The discussion includes reflections on what utopia as a method is and how it can be used in research projects. The episode also covers the method\u2019s limits and some of its downsides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-frontiers-of-socio-legal-studies wp-block-embed-frontiers-of-socio-legal-studies\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"PpqlG4MTBJ\"><a href=\"https:\/\/frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk\/utopia-as-a-method\/\">Utopia as a Method<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Utopia as a Method&#8221; &#8212; Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies\" src=\"\/\/frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk\/utopia-as-a-method\/embed\/#?secret=V0PxwF0SyW#?secret=PpqlG4MTBJ\" data-secret=\"PpqlG4MTBJ\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NUCUSP Member, Ruth Houghton took part in a discussion on &#8216;Utopia as a Method&#8217; for the Talking about Methods (Frontiers\u00a0of Socio-Legal Studies) podcast. In the episode, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Aislinn Fanning, Cristy Clark, Zoe Tongue and Ruth Houghton &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/2026\/03\/17\/new-podcast-utopia-as-a-method-in-law\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}