"A Modern Ecotopia"

2018 Alberro, Heather. “A Modern Ecotopia.” My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing. Ed. Ruzbeh Babaee (Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018), 103-108. NjP 

Brief but fairly detailed communal anarchist eutopia with an emphasis on the environment and comparisons to the current situation. The protagonist is a woman journalist being given a tour of Anakai, with her tour guide giving her a very detailed description. Anakai is composed of “federations of autonomous, self-sufficient, yet interconnected eco-communities of around 500 inhabitants each” (103). “All children . . .are taught from early childhood the basic principles of ecology, how to live sustainably, the unique characteristics of the wonderful animal life with which we share our planet, and how the grand and complex earth systems that support life function" (104). The female author is a Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, from where she holds a doctorate. She has published on radical environmental politics, environmental ethics, and green utopian studies.