A brief bibliography of post-capitalist studies

As of July 2021

Collected by S A Hamed Hosseini, Alternative Futures Research Network, University of Newcastle, Australia

Following is a list of resources recommended for post-capitalist studies and university courses in this field.

The list is divided into four sections: general collections of alternatives, justice-oriented, democracy oriented and ecology oriented alternatives.

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General sources

Hosseini, S. A. H. & Gills, B. K. (2018) Critical Globalization Studies and Development, in H. Veltmeyer & P. Bowles (eds.) The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies (pp. 138-52), Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY:
Kothari, , Salleh, A., Escobar, A., Demaria, F., & Acosta, A. (2019). Pluriverse: A post-development dictionary. New Delhi: Tulika Books and Authorsupfront. Download the whole book in pdf for free from here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334051449
Parker M, Fournier V and Reedy P. (2007) The Dictionary of Alternatives Utopianism and Organization, London: Zed Books Ltd. https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.newcastle.edu.au/lib/newcastle/detail.action?docID=339235
Speth, JG, and Courrier, K (2020) The New Systems Reader: Alternatives to a Failed Economy. New York; Oxon: Routledge. https://books.newcastle.edu.au/record=b4793879~S16
Swift, R. (2014), O. S. – Alternatives to Capitalism, New Internationalist Publications; Consortium Book Sales & Distribution Distributor, Oxford.
Veltmeyer, H and Bowles, P (eds.) (2017) The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge. https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.newcastle.edu.au/lib/newcastle/detail.action?docID=4921853
Wall, (2005) Babylon and beyond: the economics of anti-capitalist, anti-globalist and radical green movements, London; Ann Arbor, Michigan: Pluto Press.

Alternative Futures beyond Capitalist Justice

Barrett, J. (2016). Basic income in Australia and New Zealand: perspectives from the neoliberal frontier. Labour & Industry-a Journal of the Social and Economic Relations of Work, 26(4), 320-321, doi:10.1080/10301763.2016.1240767.
Block, F (2011) ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Memorial Lecture REINVENTING SOCIAL DEMOCRACY FOR THE 21(ST) CENTURY. Journal of Australian Political Economy, (67): 5-21.
De Wispelaere, J. (2016). Basic Income in Our Time: Improving Political Prospects Through Policy Learning? Journal of Social Policy, 45(4), 617-634, doi:10.1017/S0047279416000039.
De Wispelaere, , & Stirton, L. (2004). The many faces of universal basic income. Political Quarterly, 75(3), 266-274, doi: DOI 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2004.00611.x.
Eaton K. (2013) The Centralism of ‘Twenty-First-Century Socialism’: Recentralizing Politics in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia. Journal of Latin American Studies 45(421-450.
Ellner S. (2012) The Distinguishing Features of Latin America’s New Left in Power The Chavez, Morales, and Correa Governments. Latin American Perspectives 39(1): 96-114.
Fabricant N. (2015) Latin America’s Turbulent Transitions: The Future of Twenty-first-Century
Fitzpatrick T. (2004) After the New Social Democracy Social Welfare for the 21st Century. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Francese, M., & Prady, D. (2018). What is universal basic income? Proponents hail simplicity and equity; skeptics worry about fiscal cost and Finance and Development, 55(4), pp. 38-39.
Goldfrank B and Schrank (2009) Municipal Neoliberalism and Municipal Socialism: Urban Political Economy in Latin America. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33(2): 443-462.
Hahnel, R. (2005) Economic Justice and Democracy, [Chapter 8- Participatory Economy], (New York: Routledge).
Healy, S; Murphy, M &Reynolds, B (2013) ‘Basic income: An instrument for transformation in the twenty-first century’, Social justice Ireland, vol.21, no.2, pp. 116-130
Jahn, E. (2016). Basic Income. A Transformative Policy for India. South Asia-Journal of South Asian Studies, 39(4), 922-924, doi:10.1080/00856401.2016.1237276.
Kawano, (2018). Solidarity Economy: Building an economy for people & planet. The Next System Project. Retrieved from https://thenextsystem.org/sites/default/files/2018- 04/EmilyKawano_Final%20Layout%20Version.pdf
Kennemore A and Weeks G. (2011) Twenty-First Century Socialism? The Elusive Search for a Post- Neoliberal Development Model in Bolivia and Bulletin of Latin American Research 30(3): 267-281.
Latin American Perspectives 42(4): 113-116.
Leech, (2012) Capitalism: A Structured Genocide, [Chapter 7- The Socialist Alternative] (London: Zed Books).https://ebookcentral-proquest- com.ezproxy.newcastle.edu.au/lib/newcastle/detail.action?docID=896259
Leopold E and McDonald DA. (2012) Municipal Socialism Then and Now: some lessons for the Global South. Third World Quarterly 33(10): 1837-1853.
Levin-Waldman, M. (2018). The inevitability of a universal basic income. Challenge, 61(2), pp. 133- 155. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/05775132.2018.1454382
Minqi (2004) After Neoliberalism: Empire, Social Democracy, or Socialism? Monthly Review, 55. (accessed 20 July 2005).
Muhr T. (2012) Bolivarian Globalization? The New Left’s Struggle in Latin America and the Caribbean to Negotiate a Revolutionary Approach to Humanitarian Militarism and International Intervention. Globalizations 9(1): 145-159.
Nembhard, J. G. (2016). Building a cooperative solidarity commonwealth. The Next System Project. Retrieved from https://thenextsystem.org/sites/default/files/2017-08/JessicaGordonNembhard.pdf
Restakis, (2017). Cooperative commonwealth & the partner state. The Next System Project. Retrieved from https://thenextsystem.org/sites/default/files/2017-08/JohnRestakis-1.pdf
Standing, G (2013) ‘Why a basic income is necessary for a right to work’, Basic income studies, 7, no. 2, pp. 19-40
Ulrich, P (2014) ‘Basic income for all: Unaffordable dream of real option for a civil society?’, Homo Oeconomicus, vol.31, no. 1/2, 147-157
van Parijs, (2004). Basic income: A simple and powerful idea for the twenty-first century. Politics & Society, 32(1), 7-39, doi:10.1177/0032329203261095.
Van Parijs, (2013). The Universal Basic Income: Why Utopian Thinking Matters, and How Sociologists Can Contribute to It. Politics & Society, 41(2), 171-182, doi:10.1177/0032329213483106.

Alternative Futures beyond (il)liberal democracy

Betancourt R. (2018) Social and Solidarity Economy and the Transformation of the Cuban Economic Model. International Journal of Cuban Studies 10(2):
Boillat S, Gerber JF and Funes-Monzote (2012) What Economic Democracy for Degrowth? Some comments on the contribution of socialist models and Cuban agroecology. Futures 44(6): 600-607.
Cheney G, Cruz IS, Peredo AM, et al. (2014) Worker cooperatives as an organizational alternative: Challenges, achievements and promise in business governance and Organization 21(5): 591- 603.
Christiano, T. (2010) ‘The Uneasy Relationship between Democracy and Capital’, Social Philosophy & Policy, 27 (1): 195-217.
Dacheux E and Goujon D. (2011) The solidarity economy: an alternative development strategy?
Engler (2010) Economic Democracy: The Working-Class Alternative to Capitalism, Halifax, N.S.: Fernwood Pub.
Errasti (2015) Mondragon’s Chinese subsidiaries: Coopitalist multinationals in practice. Economic and Industrial Democracy 36(3): 479-499.
Eugenia S and Lambrini (2017) Radical Documentaries, Neoliberal Crisis and Post-Democracy. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 16(1): 1-17.
Flecha R and Ngai P. (2014) The challenge for Mondragon: Searching for the cooperative values in times of internationalization. Organization 21(5): 666-682.
Gingerich, W. (2009) Corruption and Political Decay: Evidence from Bolivia, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 4(1), pp. 1-34.
Guttmann A. (2019) The Social Solidarity Economy: Discerning its Theory to Accommodate the Commons. 18(2): 43-57.
Heras-Saizarbitoria I. (2014) The ties that bind? Exploring the basic principles of worker-owned organizations in practice. Organization 21(5): 645-665.
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Johanisova N and Wolf (2012) Economic democracy: A path for the future? Futures 44(6): 562-570.
Langford T. (2015) Union Democracy as a Foundation for a Participatory Society: A Theoretical Elaboration and Historical Example. Labour-Le Travail 76): 79-+.
Lansbury (2009) Workplace Democracy and the Global Financial Crisis. Journal of Industrial Relations 51(5): 599-616.
Lansbury, D. (2009) Workplace Democracy and the Global Financial Crisis, Journal of Industrial Relations, 51(5), pp. 599-616.
Lavenia P. (2013) The Defetishized Society: New Economic Democracy as a Libertarian Alternative to Capitalism. Political Studies Review 11(2): 250-251.
Maheshvarananda D. (2012) After Capitalism: Economic Democracy in Action, San German, PR: Innerworld Publications. (Chapter 5 – Cooperatives for Better World) pp. 103-123
Malleson T. (2014) After Occupy Economic Democracy for the 21st Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 1 Economic Democracy:
Melman (2001) After capitalism: from managerialism to workplace democracy, New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Ould Ahmed (2015) What does ‘solidarity economy’ mean? Contours and feasibility of a theoretical and political project. Business Ethics: A European Review 24(4): 425-435.
Polko, (2015). Models of participatory budgeting: the case study of Polish city. Journal of Economics & Management, 19, 34-44.
Ranis, P. (2019). Worker Cooperatives: The Default Alternative to Predatory United States Capitalism. Socialism and Democracy, 33(1), 112-140. doi: 10.1080/08854300.2019.1653627 Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/08854300.2019.1653627
Schweickart, D. (2016). Economic democracy: An ethically desirable socialism that is economically viable. The Next System Project. Retrieved from https://thenextsystem.org/sites/default/files/2017- 08/NewSystems_DavidSchweickart.pdf
Swift, R. (2002) The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy, [Chapter 4 – Democratizing the Economy] (London: Verso).
Wiksell, K. (2020). Worker Cooperatives for Social Change: Knowledge-Making through Constructive Resistance within the Capitalist Market Economy. Journal of Political Power, 13(2), 201-216. doi: 10.1080/2158379X.2020.1764803 Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2020.1764803
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Hosseini, A. (2016). The Spirit of the Spiritless Situation: The Significance of Rojava as an Alternative Model of Political Development in the Context of the Middle East. Critique, 44(3), 253-265. doi: 10.1080/03017605.2016.1199631 Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/03017605.2016.1199631
Colasanti, N., Frondizi, R., Liddle, J., & Meneguzzo, M. (2018). Grassroots Democracy and Local Government in Northern Syria: The Case of Democratic Confederalism. Local Government Studies, 44(6), 807-825. https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2018.1501366
Gerber, D., & Brincat, S. (2018). When Öcalan Met Bookchin: The Kurdish Freedom Movement and the Political Theory of Democratic Confederalism. Geopolitics, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2018.1508016
Cemgil, C. (2016). The Republican Ideal of Freedom as Non-Domination and the Rojava Experiment: ‘States as They Are’ or a New Socio-Political Imagination? Philosophy & Social Criticism, 42(4-5), 419-428. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0191453715624959
Rasit, H., & Kolokotronis, A. (2020). Decentralist Vanguards: Women’s Autonomous Power and Left Convergence in Rojava. Globalizations, 17(5), 869-883. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2020.1722498
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Küçük, B., & Özselçuk, C. (2016). The Rojava Experience: Possibilities and Challenges of Building a Democratic Life. South Atlantic Quarterly, 115(1), 184-196. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-3425013

Alternative Futures beyond Capitalist Sustainability

Asara, V, Profumi, E and Kallis, G (2013) Degrowth, Democracy and Environmental Values, 22(2): 217-239.
Asici AA and Bunul (2012) Green New Deal: A Green Way out of the Crisis? Environmental Policy and Governance 22(5): 295-306.
Baer, A. (2016). Toward democratic eco-socialism as the next world system. The Next System Project. Retrieved from https://thenextsystem.org/sites/default/files/2017-08/HansBaer.pdf
Barbier, E. (2010). A global green new deal: Rethinking the economic recovery. Cambridge University Press.
Bauhardt, C. (2014). Solutions to the Crisis? The Green New Deal, Degrowth, and the Solidarity Economy: Alternatives to the Capitalist Growth Economy from an Ecofeminist Economics Perspective. Ecological Economics, 102, 60-68. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.03.01
Betto F and Lowy M. (2010) Ecosocialism spirituality and supportability. Pensee 363): 91-+.
Boillat, S, Gerber, JF and Funes-Monzote, FR (2012) What economic democracy for degrowth? Some comments on the contribution of socialist models and Cuban Futures, 44(6): 600-607.
Bregje Van Veelen (2018) Negotiating energy democracy in practice: governance processes in community energy projects, Environmental Politics, 27:4, 644-665, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2018.1427824
Brownhill L and Turner (2019) Ecofeminism at the Heart of Ecosocialism. Capitalism Nature Socialism 30(1): 1-10.
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Chomsky, N., & Pollin, R. (2020). Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet. Verso.
D’Alisa, G, Demaria, F & Cattaneo, C (2013) ‘Civil and Uncivil Actors for a Degrowth Society’, Journal of Civil Society, 9, no. 2, pp. 212-224.
Dawson, 2010, ‘Climate Justice: The Emerging Movement against Green Capitalism’, South Atlantic Quarterly, 109: 2, pp. 313 – 338.
Demaria, F, Schneider, F, Sekulova, F & Martinez-Alier, J (2013) ‘What is degrowth? From an activist slogan to a social movement’, Environmental Values, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 191–215.
Deriu, M (2012) Democracies with a future: Degrowth and the democratic Futures, 44(6): 553-561.
Hailwood, (2003). Eco-anarchism and liberal reformism. Ecotheology: Journal of Religion, Nature & the Environment, 8 (2), pp. 224-241.
Hong S and Vicdan (2016) Re-imagining the utopian: Transformation of a sustainable lifestyle in ecovillages. Journal of Business Research 69(1): 120-136.
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Huan (2010) Eco-socialism in an Era of Capitalist Globalisation: Bridging the West and the East. Eco- Socialism as Politics: Rebuilding the Basis of Our Modern Civilisation: 3-12.
Huan QZ. (2010) Growth Economy and Its Ecological Impacts upon China: An Eco-socialist Analysis. Eco-Socialism as Politics: Rebuilding the Basis of Our Modern Civilisation: 191-203.
Kovel (2014) Ecosocialism as a Human Phenomenon. Capitalism Nature Socialism 25(1): 10-23.
Leigh Brownhill & Terisa E. Turner (2020) Ecofeminist Ways, Ecosocialist Means: Life in the Post- capitalist Future, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 31:1, 1-14, DOI:10.1080/10455752.2019.1710362: https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2019.1710362
Mateer, J., et al. (eds.) (2021), Energies Beyond The State: Anarchist Political Ecology and the Liberation of Nature. Rowman & Littlefield, London.
Mies, M., Shiva, V., & Salleh, A (2014). Ecofeminism. Zed Books. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.newcastle.edu.au/login?url=http://newcastle.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1644031
Moore (2008) Eco/Feminism, Non-Violence and the Future of Feminism. International Feminist Journal of Politics 10(3): 282-298.
Moore (2011) Eco/feminism and rewriting the ending of feminism: From the Chipko movement to Clayoquot Sound. Feminist Theory 12(1): 3-21.
Mortimer-Sandilands (2008) Eco/Feminism on the Edge. International Feminist Journal of Politics 10(3): 305-313.
Park M. (2013) Imagining a Just and Sustainable Society: A Critique of Alternative Economic Models in the Global Justice Movement. Critical Sociology 39(1): 65-85.
Pepper (2010) On Contemporary Eco-socialism. Eco-Socialism as Politics: Rebuilding the Basis of Our Modern Civilisation: 33-44.
Quilley, (2013) De-Growth Is Not a Liberal Agenda: Relocalisation and the Limits to Low Energy Cosmopolitanism, Environmental Values, 22(2), pp. 261-85.
Rakopoulos (2013) Responding to the crisis: food co-operatives and the solidarity economy in Greece. Anthropology Southern Africa 36(3-4): 102-107.
RIPESS (2012) The Economy we need: Declaration of the Social and Solidarity Economy movement at Rio+20, RIPESS.org, http://www.ripess.org/ripess-rio20-declaration/?lang=en.
Romano, O (2012) How to rebuild democracy, re-thinking degrowth. Futures, 44(6): 582-589.
Salleh A. (2010) How the Ecological Footprint Is Sex-Gendered Implications of Eco-feminism for an Eco-socialist Theory and Eco-Socialism as Politics: Rebuilding the Basis of Our Modern Civilisation: 141-147.
Sarkar (2010) Prospects for Eco-socialism. Eco-Socialism as Politics: Rebuilding the Basis of Our Modern Civilisation: 207-222.
Schneider, F, Kallis, G and Martinez-Alier, J (2010) Crisis or opportunity? Economic degrowth for social equity and ecological sustainability. Introduction to this special issue. Journal of Cleaner Production, 18(6): 511-518.
Schwartzman, D. (2011). Green New Deal: An Ecosocialist Perspective. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 22(3), 49-56. doi: 10.1080/10455752.2011.593886 Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2011.593886
Sica, C. E. (2020). For a Radical Green New Deal: Energy, the Means of Production, and the Capitalist State. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 31(4), 34-51. doi: 10.1080/10455752.2019.1692049 Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2019.1692049
Smith, R (2014) ‘Green capitalism: the god that failed’, Our Place in the World: A Journal of Ecosocialism, viewed 31 May 2016
Smith, (2016). Six theses on saving the planet. The Next System Project. Retrieved from https://thenextsystem.org/sites/default/files/2018-10/RichardSmith-2.pdf
Springer, S., et al. (eds.) (2021), Inhabiting the Earth: Anarchist Political Ecology for Landscapes of Emancipation. Rowman & Littlefield, London.
Springer, S., et al. (2021), Undoing human supremacy: anarchist political ecology in the face of anthroparchy, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland.
Sweeney, S (2015) ‘Green capitalism won’t work’, New Labor Forum, 24, no. 2, pp. 12-17.
Szulecki, (2018). Conceptualizing energy democracy. Environmental Politics, 27(1), pp. 21-41. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2017.1387294
Vakoch DA. (2011) Ecofeminism and Rhetoric Critical Perspectives on Sex, Technology, and Discourse. New York: Berghahn Books, 1 online resource (201 )
Victor, A., & Jackson, T. (2016). Towards a new, green economy. The Next System Project. Retrieved from https://thenextsystem.org/sites/default/files/2017-08/JacksonVictor.pdf
Wall, Derek (2005) Babylon and Beyond: The Economics of Anti-capitalist, Anti-globalist and Radical Green Movements, London; Ann Arbor, Michigan: Pluto (Chapter 4 – Small is Beautiful: Green Localism) pp. 64-83