Common Futures Social Transformation and Political Ecology.

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Schismenos, Alexandros
Other Authors:	Tarinski, I︠A︡vor
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Montreal : Black Rose Books, 2020.

Table of Contents:

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.