The Prospects of a Pluriversal Transition to a Post-Capitalist, Post-Carbon Future

Introduction: Navigating the Pluriversal Terrain: Dilemmas, Dynamic Diversities, and Synergies
S.A. Hamed Hosseini and Barry K. Gills

Part I: Compartmentality and Commonist Impulses

1. Compartmentality, Commonist Impulses, and the Path to Pluriversal Transformation: An Australian Perspective
S.A. Hamed Hosseini

2. Was Postdevelopment Too Much? Autonomous Struggle, Academic Coloniality and the Radical Roots of the Pluriverse
Alexander Dunlap and Carlos Tornel

3. The Bolivian Pluriverse: The Comuna Group, Emerging Subjects, and Transformative Political Action Against Neoliberalism
Rodrigo Santaella-Goncalves and Alfredo Saad-Filho

Part II: Strategies for Pluriversal Unison

4. Care as Pluriversal Strategy? Caring in Counter-Hegemonic Struggles in the Degrowth and Environmental Justice Movements
Joshua Hurtado Hurtado, Vilma Hämäläinen, Toni Ruuska and Pasi Heikkurinen

5. Practicing the Hegemony of Non-Hegemony: The Pluriversal Politics of the Neapolitan Commons Movement
Lorenzo Velotti, Riccardo Buonanno and Maria Francesca De Tullio

6. Converging on Food Sovereignty: Transnational Peasant Activism, Pluriversality and Counter-Hegemony
Robin Dunford

Part III: Networking and Dialogues in the Pluriverse

7. Weaving a Rhizomatic Pluriverse: Allin Kawsay, the Crianza Mutua Networks, and the Global Tapestry of Alternatives

Jorge Garcia-Arias, Carlos Tornel and María Flores Gutiérrez

8. Tackling terricide, not (only) ecocide: further exploring the nexus between social-ecological destruction

Anja Habersang

9. Building Revolutionary Subjectivity: Creative Tensions in the Plataforma de Afectados por La Hipoteca by Oscar Berglund

Oscar Berglund

Biography

S. A. Hamed Hosseini is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Global Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the author of ‘Alternative Globalizations’, ‘Conscientious Sociology’, ‘Capital Redefined’ (with Barry K Gills), ‘The Well-living Paradigm’, and co-editor of ‘The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies.’ His research explores commonist tendencies in pluriversal politics,, value theory, and post-capitalist perceptions and practices of good life.

Alexander Dunlap is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Boston University and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki. Their research examines police-military transformations, market-based conservation, and extractive projects across Latin America, Europe, and the United States. Their latest book is This System is Killing Us.

Barry K. Gills is Professor Emeritus of Global Development Studies at Helsinki University and Editor-in-Chief of Globalizations. He has published extensively on critical global political economy, radical alternatives, and transformative global studies. His work examines systemic crises and pathways toward just and regenerative futures.