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ISBN: PB: 9781551647739

ISBN: HB: 9781551647753

University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books

November 2020

200 pp.

22.8x15.2 cm

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Common Futures

Social Transformation and Political Ecology

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.

About the Author

Yavor Tarinski is an independant researcher and activist. Co-founder of Adelante – the first social center in Sofia, Bulgaria – as well as of the first Bulgarian Social Forum. Bibliographer in Agora International, member of the administrative board of TRISE (Transnational Institute of Social Ecology). Author of the book "Direct Democracy: Context, Individuality, Society" (Durty Books 2019), as well as editor of two anthologies in Bulgarian.

Alexandros Schismenos is a post-doctoral researcher interested in political philosophy, philosophy of science, democratic theory and social ecology. He earned his Ph.D in Philosophy from the University of Ioannina in 2017. He is the author of four books and several articles published in Greece and has been an active participant in social movements since the late 1990s.