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.
Introduction
Part I: Beyond the Planterary Polycrisis
1. The Planetary Polycrisis of Socio-ecological Reproduction and the
Challenge of Commons Ontology
2. The Rise of Transformative Politics and Planetary Care from Below
3. Cooperatives and Transformative Change
Part II: Worker Cooperatives and Solidarity Economies as Counterhegemony
Regimes of Socio-ecological Reproduction
5. Integrating Socio-Ecological Reproduction: ULCCS in Kerala, Chilavert in
Argentina and Uniforja in Brazil
6. Recalibrating Relations with Nature: Cecosesola in Venezuela, Heiveld in
South Africa and Trentino in Italy
6. Engaging Political Power and Creating Solidarities: Mondragón in Spain,
State-Civil Society Synergies in Kerala and the Solidarity Economy Forum in
Brazil
Conclusion: Transformative Alternatives in the Age of Planetary Crisis
