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- The Great Awakening: New Modes of Life amidst Capitalist Ruins
- Book
- 2020
- Published by: Punctum Books
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As we enter a time of climate catastrophe, worsening inequality, and collapsing market/state systems, can human societies transcend the old, dysfunctional paradigms and build the world anew? There are many signs of hope. In The Great Awakening, twelve cutting-edge activists, scholars, and change-makers probe the deep roots of our current predicament while reflecting on the social DNA for a post-capitalist future. We learn about seed-sharing in agriculture, blockchain technologies for networked collaboration, cosmolocal peer production of houses and vehicles, creative hacks on law, and new ways of thinking and enacting a rich, collaborative future. This surge of creativity is propelled by the social practices of commoning new modes of life for creating and sharing wealth in fair-minded, ecologically respectful ways. It is clear that the multiple, entangled crises produced by neoliberal capitalism cannot be resolved by existing political and legal institutions, which are imploding under the weight of their own contradictions. Present and future needs can be met by systems that go beyond the market and state. With experiments and struggle, a growing pluriverse of commoners from Europe and the US to the Global South and cyberspace are demonstrating some fundamentally new ways of thinking, being and acting. This ontological shift of perspective is making new worlds possible.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 13-22
- 4. The Decline of Liberal Politics
- pp. 79-110
- 5. Awakening to an Ecology of the Commons
- pp. 111-148
- 9. Thinking Law, Ecology, and the Commons
- pp. 247-276
- Reference Bibliography
- pp. 357-404
Additional Information
ISBN
9781953035097
Related ISBN(s)
9781953035080
MARC Record
OCLC
1227264797
Pages
404
Launched on MUSE
2020-12-22
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-SA