TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schismenos,Alexandros
AU  - Tarinski,Yavor
TI  - Common Futures: Social Transformation and Political Ecology
SN  - 9781551647777
AV  - HM881 .S35 2020 
U1  - 303.484 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Montreal
PB  - Black Rose Books
KW  - Protest movements-History-21st century
KW  - Social movements-History-21st century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- Futureless Present -- Reclaiming the Future -- Political Ecology and Democratic Theory -- Social Movements -- I. Political Ecology and Social Change -- Introduction -- Roots of the Contemporary Crisis -- The Fallacy of Economic Growth -- The Overpopulation Myth -- Ecology Beyond Narrow Technoscience -- Interconnectedness of Ecology and Democracy -- Democratic Traits of the Early Cities -- Toward Democratic and Ecological Cities -- Political Ecology in Practice -- II. Theoretical Outlines of Direct Democracy -- Democracy as a Regime of Self-Limitation -- Political Parties: Obstacle to Democracy -- Nation-State, Nationalism and the Need for Roots -- Time and Ideology -- III. 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 2006-2007 Greek student movement -- Rural Movements toward 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 -- IV. Conceptual Challenges -- The Paradoxes of Nationalistic Discourse -- Representative oligarchy and democracy -- The Temporality of Autonomy -- BIBLIOGRAPHY
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