Special Issue: Afrotopia

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en Welcome to Utopian Studies 36.2, with this uncharacteristically short message from the Editorial Team. This is a special issue on the topic of AFROTOPIAS, compiled by Guest Editors Antje Daniel (University of Vienna), Magnus Echtler (University of Bayreuth), and Melina Kalfenis (University of Bayreuth). In following the previous issue on QUEER UTOPIAS (issue 36.1) this AFROTOPIAS issue extends the editors’ welcoming of contemporary critical perspectives that assess and challenge utopian studies as a field. QUEER UTOPIAS featured work that reconceptualizes traditional models of utopian community and of both utopian political and aesthetic theories, in light of contemporary understandings of sex, gender, the body (both gendered and racialized) and the body politic. The articles also offered alternative conceptions of temporality and history.