Vishwas Satgar is Professor of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is the editor of the Democratic Marxism series, Principal Investigator for Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene and a veteran activist. He has worked extensively on post-apartheid cooperative development in township communities and has co-founded the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign and Climate Justice Charter Movement. He is the author of A Love Letter to the Many - Arguments for Transformative Left Politics in South Africa.
1. Introduction: Transformative Politics and Emancipatory Alternatives
Part I: Beyond the Polycrisis
2. Planetary Crisis of Socio-ecological Reproduction
3. The Coloniality of Neoliberal Economics: Towards the Life-Centric
Ontology of the Commons
4. The Rise of Emancipatory Utopia and Transformative Politics
Part II: Counter-hegemonic Regimes of Socio-Ecological Reproduction in
Practice
5. Integrating Socio-Ecological Reproduction into Economic Activity: ULCCS
in Kerala, CECESESOLA in Venezuela, and Chilivert in Argentina
6. Recalibrating Relations between the Economy and Non-human Nature:
Heiveld in South Africa, Trentino in Italy, and Uniforja in Brazil
7. Recalibrating Relations between Economic and Political Power: Mondragón
in Spain, State-Civil Society Synergies in Kerala, and the Solidarity
Economy Forum in Brazil
Conclusion
