* Book: The Pursuit of Alternatives - Within and Beyond Capitalism

Rainer Hampp Verlag, Markplatz 5, D-86415 Mering Internet: www.Hampp-Verlag.de
Melisa R. Serrano, Edlira Xhafa
(Eds.)

The Pursuit of Alternatives
Stories of Peoples’ Economic
and Political Struggles
Around the World

ISBN 978-3-86618-390-2

Rainer Hampp Verlag, München, Mering 2012, 237 S., € 19.80

Stories of peoples’ struggles across the globe are testaments to their determination to resist exploitation
and injustice, and to imagine and construct their own narratives of economic and political difference.
These stories of emancipatory moments demonstrate that something radically different in
terms of dominant socio-economic relations and mental conceptions of the world may arise out of
and beyond capitalism. The Pursuit of Alternatives: Stories of Peoples’ Economic and Political Struggles
Around the World presents a fresh and new perspective on how the ‘process of becoming’ alternatives
might take place based on peoples’ lived experiences. The chapters here, by labour activists
and academics, explore how various forms of peoples’ economic and political initiatives and
struggles in six countries – Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Nigeria, the Philippines, and South Korea –
might become ‘actually existing’ spaces and moments for the development of critical consciousness
and transformative capacities which are both central in challenging the dominant social, economic
and political relations. The stories in this book bring to light today’s language of peoples’
struggles; what inspires people to create their own emancipatory moments and spaces for transformative
self-change. While this book does not aim to propose an alternative to capitalism per se, it
makes a stimulating contribution to the continuing debate on what alternatives to capitalist relations
and arrangements might look like by grounding these alternatives in the everyday lives and
struggles of workers, women, aboriginal peoples, the unemployed, and the poor.
Key words: alternatives, emancipatory moments, critical consciousness, transformative capacities,
peoples' struggles, language of struggle, worker-run factory, workers' cooperative,
solidarity economy, building occupation, democratic participation, women's resistance,
anti-poverty organizing, local community, respect for nature, right to the city,
working class politics
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