Convivial Futures: Views from a Post-Growth Tomorrow

What steps are needed to make life better and more convivial? The Second Convivialist Manifesto (2020) has presented a short diagnosis of the current crises and sketches of a possible and desirable future. It has been a necessary work of theoretical synthesis, but preserving a viable world also requires passion. It is thus urgent to show what people would gain from a shift to a post-neoliberal and post-growth convivialist future. This volume includes a theoretical debate on convivialism which reflects dystopias and shows the multiple and major obstacles that convivialism will have to face. Mainly, however, the contributors to this volume create sketches of a convivial future and collect accounts of another future world which is attractive for as many as possible.

Frank Adloff (Prof. Dr.), geb. 1969, ist Professor für Soziologie an der Universität Hamburg und einer der Leiter der DFG-Kollegforschungsgruppe »Zukünfte der Nachhaltigkeit«.

Alain Caillé, geb. 1944, ist promovierter Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und emeritierter Professor für Soziologie an der Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Défense. Er leitet die Zeitschrift La Revue du MAUSS (Mouvement anti-utilitariste en science sociale) seit ihrer Gründung 1981 und ist zentraler Akteur der konvivialistischen Bewegung.