Common Futures : Social Transformation and Political Ecology

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910480789903321
• Autore: Schismenos Alexandros
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal : , : Black Rose Books, , 2020; ©2021
• ISBN: 1-55164-777-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (220 pages)
• Altri autori (Persone): TarinskiYavor
• Soggetti: Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 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.