Download or read book A Desire for Equality written by Michel Lallement and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-07-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1960s, individuals rebelling against societal norms have embraced intentional communities as a means to challenge capitalism and manifest their ideals. Combining archival work with an ethnographic approach, this book examines how these communities have implemented the utopias they claim to have in their daily lives. Focusing primarily on intentional communities in the United States who have adopted egalitarian principles of life and work, notably Twin Oaks in Virginia, the author examines the lives and actions of members to further understand these concrete utopias. In doing so, the book demonstrates that intentional communities aren't relics of a bygone era but rather catalysts capable of shaping our future.
Download or read book Construire l conomie postcapitaliste written by Audrey Laurin-Lamothe and published by Lux Éditeur. This book was released on 2023-04-13T00:00:00-04:00 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sortir du capitalisme, certes, mais pour aller où? À quoi pourrait bien ressembler une économie postcapitaliste? Devant l’ampleur de la crise écologique et l’absence de solutions conséquentes de la part de la classe politique, il devient urgent de répondre à ces questions, que la gauche évite depuis trop longtemps. Selon les tenants du capitalisme, seules deux options semblent s’offrir à nous: le statu quo ou les goulags soviétiques. La victoire du capitalisme serait donc définitive, et envisager une société sans exploitation serait une lubie réservée aux adeptes de science-fiction, aux révolutionnaires nostalgiques et aux jeunes idéalistes. Prenant ces désolants lieux communs à contre-pied, Construire l’économie postcapitaliste présente dans le détail des modèles concrets pour réorganiser en profondeur notre système économique et politique. Ce livre offre au lectorat francophone une synthèse des réflexions des trente dernières années sur la planification démocratique de l’économie. Il permet de penser l’activité de nos sociétés au-delà du capitalisme, dans un esprit de justice sociale dont elles ont plus que jamais besoin.
Download or read book Ecological Reparation written by Dimitris Papadopoulos and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we engage with the threat of social and environmental degradation while creating and maintaining liveable and just worlds? Researchers from diverse backgrounds unpack this question through a series of original and committed contributions to this wide-ranging volume. The authors explore practices of repairing damaged ecologies across different locations and geographies and offer innovative insights for the conservation, mending, care and empowerment of human and nonhuman ecologies. This ground-breaking collection establishes ecological reparation as an urgent and essential topic of public and scholarly debate.
Download or read book Democratic Economic Planning written by Robin Hahnel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democratic Economic Planning presents a concrete proposal for how to organize, carry out, and integrate comprehensive annual economic planning, investment planning, and long-run development planning so as to maximize popular participation, distribute the burdens and benefits of economic activity fairly, achieve environmental sustainability, and use scarce productive resources efficiently. The participatory planning procedures proposed provide workers in self-managed councils and consumers in neighbourhood councils with autonomy over their own activities while ensuring that they use scarce productive resources in socially responsible ways without subjecting them to competitive market forces. Certain mathematical and economic skills are required to fully understand and evaluate the planning procedures discussed and evaluated in technical sections in a number of chapters. These sections are necessary to advance the theory of democratic planning, and should be of primary interest to readers who have those skills. However, the book is written so that the main argument can be followed without fully digesting the more technical sections. Democratic Economic Planning is written for dreamers who are disenamored with the economics of competition and greed want to know how a system of equitable cooperation can be organized; and also for sceptics who demand "hard proof" that an economy without markets and private enterprise is possible.
Download or read book Creating the New Worker written by Jean-Pierre Durand and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-08 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between the changing nature of capitalism and the creation of the new worker. In a changing global economy, work - as the activity that structures individuals in capitalism both socially and psychologically - is being undermined. Combining a Gramscian critique of contemporary patterns of capitalist labour control with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Durand examines what kinds of human beings are emerging in and through modern work, or on its margins. Creating the New Worker will be of interest to students and scholars who engage in the sociology and psychology of work, economics, and labour.
Download or read book Under Development Gender written by C. Verschuur and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite various decades of research and claim-making by feminist scholars and movements, gender remains an overlooked area in development studies. Looking at key issues in development studies through the prisms of gender and feminism, the authors demonstrate that gender is an indispensable tool for social change.
Download or read book Our Commons written by Thomas de Groot and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Commons: Political Ideas for a New Europe is a collection of essays, case studies and interviews that showcase the wealth of transformative ideas that the commons have to offer. Featuring reflections on the enclosure of knowledge and the monopolisation of the digital sphere, stories about renewable energy cooperatives and community foodwaste initiatives and urgent pleas to see the city as a commons and to treat health as a common good, this book is a political call to arms for all Europeans to embrace the commons and build a new Europe. Our Commons features contributions by David Bollier, Sheila R. Foster, Benjamin Coriat, Silke Helfrich, George Monbiot, Kate Raworth, Trebor Scholz and many others.
Download or read book Rated Agency written by Michel Feher and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care more about the moods of their shareholders than about longstanding commercial success; governments subordinate citizen welfare to appeasing creditors; and individuals are concerned less with immediate income from labor than appreciation of their capital goods, skills, connections, and reputations. That firms, states, and people depend more on their ratings than on the product of their activities also changes how capitalism is resisted. For activists, the focus of grievances shifts from the extraction of profit to the conditions under which financial institutions allocate credit. While the exploitation of employees by their employers has hardly been curbed, the power of investors to select investees — to decide who and what is deemed creditworthy — has become a new site of social struggle. In clear and compelling prose, Michel Feher explains the extraordinary shift in conduct and orientation generated by financialization. Above all, he articulates the new political resistances and aspirations that investees draw from their rated agency.
Download or read book The End of Capitalism as We Knew It written by J. K. Gibson-Graham and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1990s, at the height of academic discussion about the inevitability of capitalist globalization, J. K. Gibson-Graham presented a groundbreaking and controversial argument for envisioning alternative economies. This new edition includes an introduction in which the authors address critical responses to The End of Capitalism and outline the economic research and activism they have been engaged in since the book was first published. “Paralyzing problems are banished by this dazzlingly lucid, creative, and practical rethinking of class and economic transformation.” —Meaghan Morris, Lingnan University, Hong Kong “Profoundly imaginative.” —Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, City University of New York “Filled with insights, it is clearly written and well supported with good examples of actual, deconstructive practices.” —International Journal of Urban and Regional Research J. K. Gibson-Graham is the pen name of Katherine Gibson and Julie Graham, feminist economic geographers who work, respectively, at the Australian National University in Canberra and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Download or read book Inhabiting the Earth written by Martin Locret-Collet and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last several decades, scholars and practitioners have progressively acknowledged that we cannot consider cities as the place where nature stops anymore, resulting in urban environments being increasingly appreciated and theorized as hybrids between nature and culture, entities made of socio-ecological processes in constant transformation. Spanning the fields of political ecology, environmental studies, and sociology, this new direction in urban theory emerged in concert with global concern for sustainability and environmental justice. This volume explores the notion that connecting with nature holds the key to a more progressive and liberatory politics.
Download or read book The Digitization of Healthcare written by Loick Menvielle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining conceptual, pragmatic and operational approaches, this edited collection addresses the demand for knowledge and understanding of IT in the healthcare sector. With new technology outbreaks, our vision of healthcare has been drastically changed, switching from a ‘traditional’ path to a digitalized one. Providing an overview of the role of IT in the healthcare sector, The Digitization of Healthcare illustrates the potential benefits and challenges for all those involved in delivering care to the patient. The incursion of IT has disrupted the value chain and changed business models for companies working in the health sector, and also raised ethical issues and new paradigms about delivering care. This book illustrates the rise of patient empowerment through the development of patient communities such as PatientLikeMe, and medical collaborate platforms such as DockCheck, thus providing a necessary tool to patients, caregivers and academics alike.
Download or read book Digital Dictionary written by Marie Cauli and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Digital age", "digital society", “digital civilization”: many expressions are used to describe the major cultural transformation of our contemporary societies. Digital Dictionary presents the multiple facets of this phenomenon, which was born of computers and continues to permeate all human activity as it progresses at a rapid pace. In this multidisciplinary work, experts, academics and practitioners invite us to discover the digital world from various technological and societal perspectives. In this book, citizens, trainers, political leaders or association members, students and users will find a base of knowledge that will allow them to update their understanding and become stakeholders in current societal changes.
Download or read book Birds of Passage written by Mark-Anthony Falzon and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bird migration between Europe and Africa is a fraught journey, particularly in the Mediterranean, where migratory birds are shot and trapped in large numbers. In Malta, thousands of hunters share a shrinking countryside. They also rub shoulders with a strong bird-protection and conservation lobby. Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork, this book traces the complex interactions between hunters, birds and the landscapes they inhabit, as well as the dynamics and politics of bird conservation. Birds of Passage looks at the practice and meaning of hunting in a specific context, and raises broader questions about human-wildlife interactions and the uncertain outcomes of conservation.
Download or read book Fictional Labor written by Jiewon Baek and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advocates for the ethically formative labor that fiction accomplishes. As a force of production, the fictional labor of literature and the visual arts shapes the formation of collective meaning in an era marked by the negligence of social, financial, and environmental responsibility. As neoliberalism’s hegemony since the 1980s has intensified through the proliferation of digital technologies in the 21st century, considering works of creative art as an ethically productive force is a necessary complement to political and economic critiques. The book invites readers to rethink how mutations in the production, circulation, and consumption of literary and visual materials are implicated in the commodification of information and attention for private gain. The link can have a positive effect that transforms the social relation from a capitalist ethos that expends life for profit to an alterity-driven ethos that defends life. But remedying the paucity of moral sentiments of social existence requires fictional labor to generate ethical sensibilities, cares, desires, and wills. The book’s close analyses demonstrate the aesthetic and formal aspects of literary and visual art that mediate between social relations to yield a dependence alterity, including the otherness of a precarious present, a menacing future beyond economic mastery, and an environment enmeshed with living beings and things.
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Download or read book Theorizing the Sharing Economy written by Indre Maurer and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes advantage of this opportunity by presenting a collection of empirical and conceptual work that explores the variety and the trajectories of new forms of organizing in the sharing economy, and in doing so builds on, rejuvenates, and refines existing organization theories.
