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[17] These questions arise out of the conference “Mobile Utopia: Pasts, Presents, Futures” held at Lancaster University, UK, November 2-5, 2017, the themes of which built on Ruth Levitas,
Utopia as Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
