Common Futures : Social Transformation and Political Ecology
Common Futures : Social Transformation and Political Ecology
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Author(s): Schismenos, Alexandros
Tarinski, Yavor
ISBN No.: 9781551647753
Pages: 200
Year: 202002
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 94.80
Status: Out Of Print

Contents * Prologue - Preface - Introduction Chapter 1 (by Yavor Tarinski): Political Ecology and Social Change * Introduction * Roots of the Contemporary Crisis * Domination and Oppression * The Fallacy of Economic Growth * The Overpopulation Myth * Ecology Beyond Narrow Technoscience * Interconnectedness of Ecology and Democracy * Theoretical Outlines * Democratic Traits of the Early Cities * Towards Democratic and Ecological Cities * Political Ecology in Practice Chapter 2 (by Yavor Tariski): Theoretical Outlines of Direct Democracy * Democracy as a Regime of Self-Limitation * Forms of Social Limitation * Democracy and Self-Limitation * On the Contamination of the Revolutionary Project * Self- Limitation and Education * Ecology, Degrowth and Self-Limitation * Conclusion * Political Parties: An Obstacle to Democracy * Ideology and the Saturation of Time and Space Chapter 3 (by Alexandros Schismenos): The temporality of social movements * What is to be done? Lenin's question * The question before us * Lessons from the past: The legacy of May '68. * Lessons from experience: The brief summer of the anti-globalization movement. * The 2007-07 Greek student movement * Rural movements towards social ecology * The rebellious event of December 2008 * The Occupy movement in Greece * The rise of the xenophobic Right * The Yellow Vests against capitalist temporality. * Modern technology and digital movements. Chapter 4 (by Alexandros Schismenos): Conceptual Challenges * The paradoxes of nationalistic discourse. * Representative oligarchy and democracy. * The temporality of autonomy. Conclusion Bibliography.



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