The Prospects of a Pluriversal Transition to a Post-capitalist, Post-carbon Future

This book critically engages with a central dilemma facing counter-hegemonic movements as global crises intensify: how to foster systemic change while maintaining the plurality of their struggles. The Prospects of a Pluriversal Transition to a Post-Capitalist, Post-Carbon Future explores the tensions between fragmentation and convergence, autonomy and solidarity, and the risks of compartmentalization in pluriversal politics. Through rigorous analysis and compelling case studies, it interrogates the possibilities and limitations of building transformative synergies across decolonial, post-developmentalist, post-ecomodernist, and post-capitalist struggles. The volume examines movements resisting extractivism, food sovereignty initiatives, feminist and care-based ethics, commons-based governance, and radical pluriversalist networks that challenge dominant power structures. By blending theoretical inquiry with grounded research, this collection offers a vital resource for those reimagining and realizing alternative futures beyond capitalism, carbon modernity, and coloniality. It invites readers to critically reflect on the complexities of systemic transformation, highlighting pathways for co-creating relational, diverse, and interconnected forms of resistance and transformation.

This book will be relevant to academic researchers and scholars in political ecology, critical theory, decolonial studies, environmental humanities, and social movement studies; graduate students in sociology, political science, geography, anthropology, and interdisciplinary environmental studies, and policy practitioners working on sustainable development alternatives and participatory governance.

The chapters in this book were originally published in Globalizations.

S. A. Hamed Hosseini is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Global Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the author of ‘Alternative Globalizations’, ‘Conscientious Sociology’, ‘Capital Redefined’ (with Barry K Gills), ‘The Well-living Paradigm’, and co-editor of ‘The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies.’ His research explores commonist tendencies in pluriversal politics,, value theory, and post-capitalist perceptions and practices of good life.

Alexander Dunlap is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Boston University and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki. Their research examines police-military transformations, market-based conservation, and extractive projects across Latin America, Europe, and the United States. Their latest book is This System is Killing Us.

Barry K. Gills is Professor Emeritus of Global Development Studies at Helsinki University and Editor-in-Chief of Globalizations. He has published extensively on critical global political economy, radical alternatives, and transformative global studies. His work examines systemic crises and pathways toward just and regenerative futures.