1st Edition
Reimagining Labor for a Sustainable Future
Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Capitalism, crisis and the imagination 2. The neoliberal imaginary 3. Social imaginaries 4. Plotting and planting: Rural regeneration at Tombreck Farm Scotland 5. Seed change: Navdanya and the reimagination of reproductive economies 6. "No justice, no java": Tonatierra and the anti-extractivist commons References Index
Biography
Alison E. Vogelaar is an independent scholar whose research and writing focus on the themes of representation, marginalization, justice and sustainability. She has published numerous academic articles, two co-edited volumes (The Discourses of Environmental Collapse and Nature and City: Changing Representations, 1960s-1970s) and is presently working on two pieces about labor in contemporary higher education. She was a tenured Associate Professor at Franklin University Switzerland from 2008-2021.
Poulomi Dasgupta is an Associate Professor of Economics at Franklin University Switzerland, with research interests in political economy, development economics, postcolonial economics, labour and labour movements and sustainable development. She is also a research scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. Her work on employment generation is The Job Guarantee: Toward Full Employment and her work on sustainable development is Rethinking Economics - Experiences from Plural Socio-Economic Higher.
