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Convivial Futures

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This book presents possibilities for a convivial future that would be attractive for as many as possible. It also encompasses theoretical debate on convivialism and shows the multiple and major obs...
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  • 27 April 2022
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What steps are needed to make life better and more convivial? The Second Convivialist Manifesto (2020) has presented a short diagnosis of the current crises and sketches of a possible and desirable future. It has been a necessary work of theoretical synthesis, but preserving a viable world also requires passion. It is thus urgent to show what people would gain from a shift to a post-neoliberal and post-growth convivialist future. This volume includes a theoretical debate on convivialism which reflects dystopias and shows the multiple and major obstacles that convivialism will have to face. Mainly, however, the contributors to this volume create sketches of a convivial future and collect accounts of another future world which is attractive for as many as possible.
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Price: $30.00
Pages: 212
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date: 27 April 2022
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.31 in
ISBN: 9783837656640
Format: Paperback
BISACs: PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays
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»In dieser Zusammenstellung unterschiedlicher Beiträge konkretisiert »Convivial Futures« eine politische Philosophie des relationalen guten Lebens für alle, buchstabiert diese jedoch nicht vollumfänglich aus. So bleiben genügend Ideenräume zu füllen und anschlussfähige Bezugspunkte zu identifizieren.«

Frank Adloff, born in 1969, is a professor of sociology at Universität Hamburg and the co-director of the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies »Futures of Sustainability«. His research focuses on social theory, social-ecological transformations, conviviality, and civil society.
Alain Caillé, born in 1944, holds a doctorate in economics and is professor emeritus of sociology at the Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Défense. He has directed the journal La Revue du MAUSS (Mouvement anti-utilitariste en science sociale) since its foundation in 1981 and is a central player in the convivialist movement.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Convivial Futures? 9
From Lived Convivialism to Convivialist Transformations 21
The First Convivialist Steps 31
Feminism and Convivialism 39
Convivialism Facing the Territorial Question 49
Is Convivialism the Answer? Depends on the Question 55
Imagining the Convivialist Enterprise 69
Towards a Post-Covid Economy for the Common Good 77
Is a Post-Growth Society Possible? 85
Money Creation as a Foundational Tool for Convivialism 91
Conviviality to Reanimate the World 105
Convivial Conservation with Nurturing Masculinities in Brazil's Atlantic Forest 113
A Convivialist Solution for the Multiple Crisis of Biodiversity, Climate, and Public Health 127
The Post-Development Agenda 139
Letter to the End-of-the-World Generation 151
Right Here, Right Now 161
"2050" 175
Once upon a Time ... There Will Be a Convivial Desire 183
A Reflection on 200 Years of Our Youngest Bodily Organ—Convivialis Futuris 193
List of Contributors 207