What Does The Future Hold? Is The Desertification Of The Planet, Driven By State And Corporate Authority, The Final Horizon Of History? Is The Dystopian Future Implied By The Systemic Degradation Of Nature And Society Inescapable? From Marginal Activist Groups To Governments And Interstate Organizations, All Appear To Be Concerned With What The Future Of Our Shared World Will Look Like. Yet Even Amid The Ongoing Global Crisis Caused By Capitalism, The Potential Of A Different, Radically Rooted Future Has Also Appeared. Common Futures Explores The Global Emergence Of Twenty-first-century Social Movements, Opposed To Capitalism And State Authority. These Movements, Yavor Tarinski And Alexandros Schismenos Show, Transcend Traditional Political Forms Of Organization And Try To Form Autonomous Networks Premised On Direct Democracy And Solidarity. The Authors Identify The Importance Of Grassroots Movements, Which Can Bring Radical Change And Create A More Democratic And Ecological Future. Common Futures Examines The Social And Political Roots Of The Environmental Crisis And The Relationship Between Ecology And Direct Democracy. But Tarinski And Schismenos Go Beyond The Analysis Of Crises, Contemporary Struggles, And Social Movements: Common Futures Also Clarifies The Conditions For The Re-creation Of Free Public Time And Space And Point To Practical Steps That We Can Take To Alleviate The Problems Of Our Future.-- Yavor Tarinski, Alexandros Schismenos. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 209-215). Issued Also In Electronic Format.

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Alexandros Schismenos; Alexandros Schismenos

Schismenos, Alexandros, Tarinski, Yavor

Yavor Tarinski, Alexandros Schismenos

Canada - English Language, Canada

Montréal, 2021

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"What does the future hold? Is the desertification of the planet, driven by state and corporate authority, the final horizon of history? Is the dystopian future implied by the systemic degradation of nature and society inescapable? From marginal activist groups to governments and interstate organizations, all appear to be concerned with what the future of our shared world will look like. Yet even amid the ongoing global crisis caused by capitalism, the potential of a different, radically rooted future has also appeared. Common Futures explores the global emergence of twenty-first-century social movements, opposed to capitalism and state authority. These movements, Yavor Tarinski and Alexandros Schismenos show, transcend traditional political forms of organization and try to form autonomous networks premised on direct democracy and solidarity. The authors identify the importance of grassroots movements, which can bring radical change and create a more democratic and ecological future. Common Futures examines the social and political roots of the environmental crisis and the relationship between ecology and direct democracy. But Tarinski and Schismenos go beyond the analysis of crises, contemporary struggles, and social movements: Common Futures also clarifies the conditions for the re-creation of free public time and space and point to practical steps that we can take to alleviate the problems of our future."-- Provided by publisher

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

2022-02-17