{"id":157,"date":"2026-06-02T16:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/?p=157"},"modified":"2026-06-02T16:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:30:26","slug":"utopia-and-failure-a-complex-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/2026\/06\/02\/utopia-and-failure-a-complex-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Utopia and Failure: A Complex Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NUCUSP members &#8211; Lisa Garforth and Ruth Houghton &#8211; 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Special Issue in the&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><em>European Journal of Social Theory<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Garforth, Lisa. \u201cClimate and Failure: For a Weak Utopianism.\u201d&nbsp;<em>European Journal of Social Theory<\/em>, ahead of print, November 6, 2025.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1177%2F13684310251392829&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cruth.houghton%40newcastle.ac.uk%7C13026111d7bc4cdd530b08dec0bb8175%7C9c5012c9b61644c2a91766814fbe3e87%7C1%7C0%7C639160108728486904%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=DKFdmjMUFOURENrherE4gcfXHTPPkIKyebkGq2f1CXg%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/13684310251392829<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thaler, Mathias, Davina Cooper, and Ruth Houghton. \u201cIntroduction: Utopia and Failure: A Complex Relationship.\u201d&nbsp;<em>European Journal of Social Theory<\/em>, ahead of print, June 2, 2026.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1177%2F13684310261452967&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cruth.houghton%40newcastle.ac.uk%7C13026111d7bc4cdd530b08dec0bb8175%7C9c5012c9b61644c2a91766814fbe3e87%7C1%7C0%7C639160108728572007%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=JJ9w4m%2Bm1hTHMOG6xDrN8cbzjDBYeLTSjbqy%2BIVGk8I%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/13684310261452967<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NUCUSP members &#8211; Lisa Garforth and Ruth Houghton &#8211; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/2026\/06\/02\/utopia-and-failure-a-complex-relationship\/\">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-157","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\/157","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=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}