Utopia, Equity and Ideology in Urban Texts Fair and Unfair Cities

Michael G. Kelly is Senior Lecturer in French and head of subject at the University of Limerick, Ireland, where he is also Director of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies. He is the author of a study on the relations of utopia and modern French poetry, Strands of Utopia . Spaces of Poetic Work in Twentieth-Century France , and has published widely on a range of topics in modern and contemporary French and comparative literature.

Mariano Paz is Lecturer in Spanish and head of subject at the University of Limerick, Ireland, where he is Associate Director of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies. He has published widely on the topic of dystopian and science fiction cinemas, with a focus on the representation of ideology and urban spaces in Latin American film.