This book brings together leading academics and activists to address the possibilities for qualitative social change beyond neoliberalism, providing introductory essays on alternative societies, transition, and resistance. Bringing together discussions on universal basic income, actually existing communism, parecon, circular economies, workers co-operatives, 'fully automated luxury communism,' trade unionism, and party politics, the volume provides one of the first scholarly interventions to systematically evaluate possibilities for transition and resistance across theoretical, political, and disciplinary traditions.

Brings together leading academics to address the problematic of social transition Is the first scholarly book to systematically engage with the possibilities for, and modes of, transition Provides introductory essays on the possibilities for transition beyond neoliberalism

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Neal Harris is a Lecturer in Sociology at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Onur Acarölu is an Instructor at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, and a co-founder of the Free University of London (FUL), UK.

Klappentext

This book brings together leading academics and activists to address the possibilities for qualitative social change beyond neoliberalism, providing introductory essays on alternative societies, transition, and resistance. Bringing together discussions on universal basic income, actually existing communism, parecon, circular economies, workers co-operatives, 'fully automated luxury communism,' trade unionism, and party politics, the volume provides one of the first scholarly interventions to systematically evaluate possibilities for transition and resistance across theoretical, political, and disciplinary traditions.

Inhalt
1 Introduction - Thinking Beyond Neoliberalism: Theorising the Future in the Present.- 2 Mapping Alternative Economies.- 3 Co-operatives and Socialism: The Promises and Contradictions of a System of Worker Ownership.- 4 Why the post-Covid world needs a Universal Basic Income.- 5 Regaining the Future: Temporality and Left Politics.- 6 There is no place like Hope: Ernst Bloch's Utopian Consciousness.- 7 Connection Lost: Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Critical Theory and Psychoanalytic Perspectives.- 8 The Pathology of Normalcy and Consensual Validation: Thinking Beyond Neoliberalism with Erich Fromm.- 9 Employability as Exploitability: a Marxist Critical Pedagogy.- 10 Neoliberal Creep and Reach: Education Services within the UK.- 11 Observations from the Precipice.