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Publication date: 6 February 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800087675

Number of illustrations: 19

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Postcapitalist Countrysides

From commoning to community wealth building

Nick Gallent (Editor),  Menelaos Gkartzios (Editor),  Mark Scott (Editor),  Andrew Purves (Editor)

Postcapitalist Countrysides explores the tensions that arise from the established conventions of economic production and private accumulation, as they affect life, wealth and work in rural areas. Its premise is that capitalism, as we experience it today, is incapable of solving key societal challenges – centred on social justice and sustainable livelihoods. By rethinking land, capital and labour relationships, postcapitalism offers glimpses of alternative modes of socio-economic organisation, achievable through local pre-figurative actions today and scalable through structural supports in the future. The glimpses of hopeful futures offered in this collection focus on rural places, communities and economies.

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