This book offers an innovative examination of the utopian impulse through performance as a proposition of practical engagement in the contemporary Americas. The volume compiles unique multidisciplinary and exploratory texts, applying diverse critical and artistic approaches. Its contributors reconceptualize utopia as a creative and theoretical method based on a commitment to sociopolitical transformation. Chapters are organized around notions of mapping utopias, indigenizing practices, political manifestations, and the construction of social identities.

1. Introduction: Utopian Interventions and their Relevance in the Contemporary Americas - Kim Beauchesne and Alessandra Santos.- 2. A New (Anti) Manifesto for the Americas. Version 2015 - Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Saul García López, and Michèle Ceballos Michot.- 3. tangible cartographies: surviving the colonial/welcome to my house - Jayce Salloum and Manuel Piña.- 4. Flash: Butoh, Hip-Hop, and the Urban Body in Crisis - Michael Sakamoto.- 5. Writing. First. contacts? - Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin.- 6. Colonial Blanket for Peoples Who Refuse to Vanish - Afuwa Granger and Aerlyn Weissman.- 7. Masking Revolution: Subcomandante Marcos and the Contemporary Zapatista Movement - Brianne Orr-Álvarez.- 8. Utopic Cannibalism in Fausto Carlos, Leonardo Sette, and Takuma Kuikuro's As Hiper Mulheres - Sarah Shamash.- 9. Real Utopias - Erik Olin Wright.- 10. No Suture: Rethinking Utopia through J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace, the Occupy Movement, and Idle No More - Dan Adleman.- 11. Utopian Discourse andthe 2008 Global Financial Crisis: Andrew Ross Sorkin and Curtis Hanson's Too Big to Fail, and Antonio Muñoz Molina's Todo lo que era sólido - Gabriela Badica.- 12. El Che de los Gays and Hija de Perra: Utopian Queer Performances in Post-Dictatorship Chile - Manuela Valle.- 13. Could Bilingual Radio Be Utopian? Latin American Sound Performance through Radio in Western Canada - Carmen Miranda Barrios.- 14. Revisiting Utopias from the 1970s in Argentine Cinema (2003-2012): The Case of Benjamín Ávila's Infancia clandestina. Memory and Subjectivity - Rita De Grandis.- 15. The Utopian Impulse in the Videos of Pola Weiss (Mexico City, 1977-1990) - Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda.- 16. Utopia in Ruins: The Ochagavía Hospital - Jon Beasley-Murray.