Natalya Bekhta Author Profile

About the Author

Natalya Bekhta

Natalya Bekhta is a Senior Research Fellow at the Tampere Institute for Advanced Study. Her recent publications include We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction (2020) and a special issue of Style on “We-Narratives and We-Discourses Across Genres” (2020).

Utopia
satire
narrative structure
Ivan Semesiuk
Russian-Ukrainian war

Contributions by Author: Natalya Bekhta

Utopia
satire
narrative structure
Ivan Semesiuk
Russian-Ukrainian war

Thomas the Baboon and Utopia

Constructing a Realistic Future

This article reissues a call for the recuperation of a non-substantive approach to the category of Utopia in order to highlight the usefulness of this particular view of Utopia for the current debates about the future, debates often focused on concrete, substantive futural visions…