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Book SynopsisThis book brings together leading academics and activists to address the possibilities for qualitative social change beyond neoliberalism, providing introductory essays on alternative societies, transition, and resistance. Bringing together discussions on universal basic income, actually existing communism, parecon, circular economies, workers co-operatives, ‘fully automated luxury communism,' trade unionism, and party politics, the volume provides one of the first scholarly interventions to systematically evaluate possibilities for transition and resistance across theoretical, political, and disciplinary traditions.
Table of ContentsForeword
Introduction: Transition, Transformation, Resistance: Theorising the Future by co-editor Neal HarrisPart 1: The Future Beckons: Alternative Visions
Chapter One: ‘Alternative Economies’, Luke Martell
Chapter Two: ‘Worker Ownership, Self-Management, and the Promise of a Co-operative Economy’, Robin Jervis
Chapter Three: ‘Fully Automated Luxury... What?’ Neal Harris
Part 2: The Journey: Theorising Transition and Resistance
Chapter Four: Understanding Intercultural Experience: Super-Diversity, Social Learning and Cultural Trends Toward Transition, Estevao Bosco
Chapter Five: Regaining the Future: The Temporal Complexity of Transitional Politics, Onur Acaroglu
Chapter Six: Socialist transition through a Sacred Entanglement with the Earth: Transforming States of Exception into Revolutionary Fervour, Arnab Chakraborty
Part 3: Classes, Collectives, Groupings: Transition and Subjectivity
Chapter Seven: ‘The masses will rise again’: Rosa Luxemburg, the concept of the masses and the question of non-revolutionary working class, Dana Mills
Chapter Eight: Glimpsing the future in neoliberal subjectivities:‘Self-optimisation’ as a resource for transition, Will Leggett
Chapter Nine: Acephalic Resistance: Evaluating the Contemporaneity of ‘New’ Social Movements through the case of ‘the Yellow Vests’, Denis Chevalier-Bousseau
Part 4: Transition through the InstitutionsChapter Ten: Neoliberalism’s Material and Ideological Profit from Incarceration: A Call for Abolition, Anna Wimbledon
Chapter Eleven: Desire beyond Market Forces: Queerness in India after the removal of Article 377, Anup Sharma
Chapter Twelve: Films as Cognitive Machines: A Discussion through the Apparatus Theory, Ufuk Gürbüzdal
Chapter Thirteen: Hippocrates Pronounced Dead: Breaking Down Neoliberal Complacency in Healthcare, Ozan Siso
Conclusion by co-editor Onur Acaroglu
