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Future Is Now: An Introduction to Prefigurative Politics
Inbunden, 2022
1046 kr
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The gloomy prospect of climate change and ecosystems' collapse calls for an urgent rethinking of all aspects of our life: how we work, produce, eat, spend, take care of each other, relate to nature, and organize our societies. Prefigurative initiatives are attracting a growing amount of attention …
Future Is Now: An Introduction to Prefigurative Politics
Häftad, 2024
404 kr
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The gloomy prospect of climate change and ecosystems' collapse calls for an urgent rethinking of all aspects of our life: how we work, produce, eat, spend, take care of each other, relate to nature, and organize our societies. Prefigurative initiatives are attracting a growing amount of attention …
From Capital to Commons
Exploring the Promise of a World beyond Capitalism
Inbunden, 2023
1360 kr
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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title in Economics 2023.In this stimulating analysis, Hannes Gerhardt outlines the potentials and challenges of a technology-enabled, commons-focused transition out of capitalism.The book shows that openness and cooperation are more beneficial in today’s economies and …
From Capital to Commons
Exploring the Promise of a World beyond Capitalism
Häftad, 2024
378 kr
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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title in Economics 2023.In this stimulating analysis, Hannes Gerhardt outlines the potentials and challenges of a technology-enabled, commons-focused transition out of capitalism.The book shows that openness and cooperation are more beneficial in today’s economies and …
Remaking Money for a Sustainable Future
Money Commons
Inbunden, 2024
1330 kr
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EPDF and EPUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Money is central to capitalism and to our many sustainability crises. Could we remake money so as to advance sustainable economies and fair societies? A growing number of scholars, politicians and activists think we can, and they are …
Remaking Money for a Sustainable Future
Money Commons
Häftad, 2025
447 kr
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EPDF and EPUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Money is central to capitalism and to our many sustainability crises. Could we remake money so as to advance sustainable economies and fair societies? A growing number of scholars, politicians and activists think we can, and they are …
Politics of the Gift
Towards a Convivial Society
Av Frank Adloff
Inbunden, 2022
1263 kr
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At the heart of capitalism lies the idea of ‘homo economicus’: an ever-rational human being motivated by self-interest which arguably leads societies to economic prosperity. Drawing on French sociologist Marcel Mauss' influential theory of ‘the gift’, Frank Adloff shatters this fallacy to show …
Politics of the Gift
Towards a Convivial Society
Av Frank Adloff
Häftad, 2024
439 kr
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At the heart of capitalism lies the idea of ‘homo economicus’: an ever-rational human being motivated by self-interest which arguably leads societies to economic prosperity. Drawing on French sociologist Marcel Mauss' influential theory of ‘the gift’, Frank Adloff shatters this fallacy to show …
Alternative Societies
For a Pluralist Socialism
Av Luke Martell
Inbunden, 2023
1193 kr
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In a time of great gloom and doom internationally and of major global problems, this book offers an invaluable contribution to our understanding of alternative societies that could be better for humans and the environment. Bringing together a wide range of approaches and new strands of economic and …
Alternative Societies
For a Pluralist Socialism
Av Luke Martell
Häftad, 2023
439 kr
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In a time of great gloom and doom internationally and of major global problems, this book offers an invaluable contribution to our understanding of alternative societies that could be better for humans and the environment. Bringing together a wide range of approaches and new strands of economic and …
Prefiguring Utopia
The Auroville Experiment
Av Suryamayi Aswini Clarence-Smith
Inbunden, 2023
1193 kr
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Auroville in Tamil Nadu, South India, is an internationally recognized endeavour in prefiguring an alternative society: the largest, most diverse, dynamic and enduring of intentional communities worldwide. This book is a critical and insightful analysis of the utopian practice of this unique …
Creative Construction
Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond
Inbunden, 2025
1212 kr
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Democratic planning allows us to effectively address the multiple crises of our time through cooperative modes of collective coordination. Given the destructive consequences of contemporary capitalism, such a structural alternative to market economies is needed more than ever.This accessible work …
Desire for Equality
Living and Working in Concrete Utopian Communities
Inbunden, 2024
1133 kr
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Since the late 1960s, individuals rebelling against societal norms have embraced intentional communities as a means to challenge capitalism and manifest their ideals. Combining archival work with an ethnographic approach, this book examines how these communities have implemented the utopias they …
Desire for Equality
Living and Working in Concrete Utopian Communities
Häftad, 2026
398 kr
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Since the late 1960s, individuals rebelling against societal norms have embraced intentional communities as a means to challenge capitalism and manifest their ideals. Combining archival work with an ethnographic approach, this book examines how these communities have implemented the utopias they …
Radical Municipalism
The Politics of the Common and the Democratization of Public Services
Av Iolanda Bianchi, Bertie Russell
Inbunden, 2026
1193 kr
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Radical Municipalism offers a fresh perspective on the democratizing capacity of the politics of the common in the transformation of public services, aiming to foster social change at the local level and beyond.Building on a strong theoretical foundation and featuring 14 original case studies from …
Land, Capital and Extractive Frontiers
Social Conflict and Ecological Crisis in the Senegal River Delta
Inbunden, 2025
1193 kr
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This book examines ‘land-grabbing’ - its colonial roots and the fraught relationship between capital and nature amidst the current global socio-ecological crisis.Through ethnographic and archival research, Maura Benegiamo investigates an Italian company’s acquisition of 20,000 hectares in Senegal’s …
Farmers, Food, Future
A Menu of Transformative Agency
Inbunden, 2026
1193 kr
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The global industrial food system contributes not only to environmental degradation, but also to multiple forms of nutritional harm and social inequalities. Despite numerous good reasons to fundamentally transform the sector, contemporary debates among practitioners, policy makers and scholars are …
Creative Construction
Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond
Häftad, 2026
467 kr
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Democratic planning allows us to effectively address the multiple crises of our time through cooperative modes of collective coordination. Given the destructive consequences of contemporary capitalism, such a structural alternative to market economies is needed more than ever.This accessible work …
Mobilizations, Protests & Engagements
Canadian Perspectives on Social Movements
Av Marie Hammond-Callaghan, Matthew Hayday
Häftad, 2008
294 kr
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This book addresses many questions in evaluating social movements and is the first in a series being developed by The Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University. What lessons can we learn from protest movements and social mobilizations of the past? Do newer movements differ from those …
Mind the Gaps
Canadian Perspectives on Gender and Politics
Av Roberta Lexier, Tamara Small
Häftad, 2013
239 kr
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The gender gap refers to the differences in public opinion and political participation between men and women: the proportion of seats held by women in Canadian legislatures appears to have plateaued or even declined at all levels of government, and gendered differences in political behaviour and …
