Professor Ruth A Levitas

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• 2013

  Singing summons the existence of the fountain

  Levitas, RA., 2013, (Accepted/In press) Ernst Bloch and the Privatisation of Hope. Thompson, P. & Zizek, S. (eds.). Duke University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

• Utopia as Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society

  Levitas, R. A., 26 Jul 2013, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 268 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Authored book

  • utopia 100%
  • sociology 21%
  • environment crisis 18%
  • hermeneutics 14%
  • economic crisis 12%
  353 Citations (Scopus)
• 2012

  Secularism and Post-secularism in Roberto Unger and Ernst Bloch: Towards a Utopian Ontology

  Levitas, RA., 2012, Existential Utopia: New Perspectivews on Utopian Thought. Vieira, P. & Marder, M. (eds.). Continuum, p. 97 - 112 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

• The Just's Umbrella: Austerity and the Big Society in Coalition policy and beyond.

  Levitas, R. A., Aug 2012, In: Critical Social Policy. 32 , 3, p. 320 - 342 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • coalition policy 100%
  • hermeneutics 67%
  • self-organization 38%
  • redistribution 32%
  • faith 29%
  130 Citations (Scopus)

• There may be 'trouble' ahead: what we know about those 120,000 'troubled' families

  Levitas, RA., 21 Apr 2012

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site

• Utopia Calling: eradicating child poverty in the UK and beyond

  Levitas, R. A., 2012, Global Child Poverty and Well-being: Measurement, concepts, policy and action. Minujin, A. & Nandy, S. (eds.). Policy Press, p. 449 - 474 26 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book
• 2011

  H.G.Wells, Utopias

  Levitas, RA., 15 Jun 2011

  Research output: Non-textual form › Performance

• The Concept of Utopia

  Levitas, RA., 2011, 264 + xviii ed. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. 282 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Authored book

  1 Citation (Scopus)

• The Necessity of Utopian Thinking

  Levitas, RA., 16 Feb 2011, Discourses of Dissent, Birmingham.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)

• The Necessity of Utopian Thinking

  Levitas, RA., 16 Feb 2011

  Research output: Non-textual form › Performance
• 2010

  After Morris: Warwick Herbert Draper and the Pursuit of Utopia

  Levitas, RA., 2010, Morris in the Twenty-first Century. Bennett, P. & Miles, R. (eds.). Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, p. 29 - 52 24 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

• Back to the Future: Wells, Sociology, Utopia and Method

  Levitas, RA., Nov 2010, In: The Sociological Review. 58, 4, p. 530 - 547 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • utopia 100%
  • sociology 64%
  • environment crisis 28%
  • normativity 25%
  • suppression 22%
  36 Citations (Scopus)

• Ian McQueen's Earthly Paradise

  Levitas, RA., Jun 2010, In: William Morris Society Newsletter. p. 22 - 24 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• In Eine Bess're Welt Entruckt: reflections on Music and Utopia

  Levitas, RA., Oct 2010, In: Utopian Studies. 21 (2), p. 215 - 231 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Utopia 100%
  • Music 71%
  • Utopian 18%
  • Ernst Bloch 13%
  • Edward Said 11%

• Introduction: Inequality and Social Exclusion

  Levitas, RA., 2010, The Peter Townsend Reader. Walker, A., Gordon, D., Levitas, R., Phillimore, P., Phillipson, C., Salomon, M. E. & Yeates, N. (eds.). Policy Press, p. 270 - 274 5 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

• The Concept of Utopia

  Levitas, RA., 2010, Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. 264 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Authored book

  80 Citations (Scopus)

• The Peter Townsend Reader

  Alan, W., Levitas, RA., Peter, P., Chris, P., David, G., Nicola, Y. & Margot E., S., 2010, Policy Press. 678 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Edited book

  7 Citations (Scopus)

• Towards a Utopian Ontology: Secularism and Post-secularism in Ernst Bloch and Roberto Unger

  Levitas, RA., Jun 2010, In: Journal of Contemporary Thought. 31, p. 151 - 169 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• Utopian Studies

  Levitas, RA. & Tom, M., 2010, In: Utopian Studies. 21(2)

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• Why I am a socialist

  Levitas, RA., Jun 2010, In: Soundings. 45, p. 124 - 135 160 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
• 2009

  Confronting the Crisis

  Levitas, RA., 12 Oct 2009

  Research output: Non-textual form › Performance

• Social Exclusion: Ongoing Challenges

  Levitas, RA., 20 Nov 2009, Peter Townsend Memorial Conference, Conway Hall.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)

• The new meaning of welfare

  Levitas, RA., Jan 2009, In: Parliamentary Brief.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• Understanding the risks of social exclusion across the life-course: Working age adults without dependent children

  Fahmy, E., Gordon, D. & Levitas, RA., Jul 2009, Social Exclusion Task Force. 89 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
• 2008

  An equal society? tell that to the bottom of the pile

  Levitas, RA., Dec 2008, In: Parliamentary Brief.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• Being in Utopia

  Levitas, RA., Mar 2008, In: The Hedgehog Review: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture. 10:1, p. 19 - 30 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• Be Realistic: Demand the Impossible

  Levitas, RA., 2008, In: New Formations. p. 78 - 93 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• Ernst Bloch y el reclamo del futuro

  Levitas, RA., Mar 2008, In: Mundo Siglo XXI. 12, p. 15 - 29 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• Pragmatism, Utopia and Anti-Utopia

  Levitas, RA., May 2008, In: Critical Horizons. 9:1, p. 42 - 60 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Anti-utopia 100%
  • Utopia 90%
  • utopia 73%
  • pragmatism 68%
  • Pragmatism 60%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

• The Politics of Hope

  Levitas, RA., 14 Nov 2008

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site

  • politics 100%
  • apathy 56%
  • twenty-first century 40%
  • time 15%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Whatever Happened to Class Politics

  Levitas, RA., 1 Jun 2008

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
• 2007

  Florecimiento humano: una agenda utopista?

  Levitas, RA., Apr 2007, In: Desacatos: revista de Antropologia Social. 23, p. 87 - 100 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• La educacion del deseo: el redescubrimiento de William Morris

  Levitas, RA., Apr 2007, In: Desacatos: revista de Antropologia Social. 23, p. 203 - 222 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• Looking for the blue: The necessity of Utopia

  Levitas, RA., Oct 2007, In: Journal of Political Ideologies. 12 (3), p. 289 - 306 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • political discourse 100%
  • utopia 70%
  • responsibility 54%
  • method 12%
  • discourse 6%
  80 Citations (Scopus)

• Los limites de la agenda social european: revision de las politicas de inclusion social

  Levitas, RA., Apr 2007, In: Revista Espanola del Tercer Sector. 5, p. 173 - 193 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• Mas alla del derecho burgues; libertad, igualadad y utopia en Marx y Morris

  Levitas, RA., Mar 2007, In: Mundo Siglo XXI. 8, p. 17 - 28 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• The Archive of the Feet

  Levitas, RA., 2007, Exploring the Utopian Impulse: Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice (Ralahine Utopian Studies). Griffin, MJ. & Moylan, T. (eds.). Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, p. 19 - 42 24 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

• The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society: Utopia as Method

  Levitas, RA., 2007, Utopia, Method, Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming. Bacconlini, R. & Moylan, T. (eds.). Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, p. 47 - 68 22 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

• The loss of possibility: scientisation of death and the special case of early miscarriage

  Frost, JE., Bradley, HK., Levitas, RA., Smith, L. & Garcia, J., Nov 2007, In: Sociology of Health and Illness. 29 (7), p. 1003 - 1022 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Spontaneous Abortion 100%
  • death 69%
  • Bereavement 41%
  • trauma 20%
  • pregnancy 20%
  62 Citations (Scopus)

• The Multi-dimensional Analysis of Social Exclusion

  Levitas, RA., Pantazis, C., Fahmy, E., Gordon, D., Lloyd, EHRR. & Patsios, D., 1 Jan 2007, 246 plus additional Appendix 7 ed. Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). 246 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
• 2006

  Lone mothers, poverty and social exclusion

  Levitas, RA., Head, E. & Finch, N., 2006, Poverty and Social Exclusion in Britian: The Millennium Survey. C. P., Gordon, D. & Levitas, R. (eds.). Policy Press, p. 405 - 429 25 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

• Poverty and Social Exclusion in Britain: The Millennium Survey

  Pantazis, C., Gordon, D. & Levitas, RA., 2006, Policy Press. 488 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Edited book

• The concept and measurement of social exclusion

  Levitas, RA., 2006, Poverty and social exclusion in Britain: the millennium survey. Pantazis, C., Gordon, D. & Levitas, R. (eds.). Policy Press, p. 123 - 160 38 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

• The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society: or why sociologists and others should take Utopia more seriously

  Levitas, RA., 24 Oct 2006

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site

• Women's experiences of early miscarriage management options: a qualitative study

  Smith, LF., Frost, JE., Levitas, RA., Bradley, HK. & Garcia, J., Mar 2006, In: British Journal of General Practice. 56, p. 198 - 205 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
• 2005

  After the Fall

  Levitas, RA., 2005, In: Anglo Saxonica: Revista do Centro de Estudos Anglisticos da Universidade de Lisboa. 23, p. 297 - 317 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• Beyond bourgeois right: freedom, equality and Utopia in Marx and Morris

  Levitas, RA., Oct 2005, In: European Legacy. 9 (5), p. 605 - 618 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• Morris, Hammersmith & Utopia

  Levitas, RA., 2005, William Morris Society. 64 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Authored book

• The Inclusive Society? Social Exclusion and New Labour

  Levitas, RA., 2005, Palgrave Macmillan. 277 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Authored book

  55 Citations (Scopus)

• Utopia Matters

  Levitas, RA., 2005, Utopia Matters: Theory, Politics, Literature and the Arts. Vieira, F. & Freitas, M. (eds.). University of Oporto Press, p. 41 - 46 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book