Alberto Acosta

Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary contains over one hundred essays on transformative initiatives and alternatives to the currently dominant processes of globalized development, including its structural roots in modernity, capitalism, state domination, and masculinist values. It offers critical essays on mainstream solutions that ‘greenwash’ development and presents radically different worldviews and practices from around the world that point to an ecologically wise and socially just world.

Siendo muy joven, Miriam abandon su casa y sus estudios, movida por la intenci n de ayudar a su padre con los gastos que conllevaban la enfermedad que consum a a su madre. En la ciudad intenta encontrar trabajo en distintos lugares, y casi sin saberlo, un d a el destino la arrastra a un lugar, el cual, debido a su formaci n moral, nunca imagin ... un bar de desnudistas. All encuentra por fin una manera eficiente de ayudar econ micamente a su familia, convirti ndose en una bailarina. Con el paso de alg n tiempo, su vida se sumerge en la sordidez del dinero, la m sica, el humo y el licor. Pero una noche un extra o espectador llama su atenci n. Al conocerlo descubre un nuevo mundo y empieza a recuperar su vida. Pero hay algo m s profundo: La historia de ambos se remonta a setecientos a os atr s, y el mundo de Miriam empieza entonces a mezclarse entre lo conocido, y la ilusi n de reencontrarse con su alma gemela. Es el Amor la Luz que nos gu a por el oscuro abismo de la Muerte? La realidad y la fantas a, conjugadas en este incierto, pero fascinante viaje que es nuestro paso por la vida.

Un viejo solitario, un lago, un pez, una mujer, un recuerdo. La historia de un amor que nunca pudo ser, y a pesar de ello, siempre lo fue y siempre lo ser .

Capitalism’s addiction to fossil fuels is heating our planet at a pace and scale never before experienced. Extreme weather patterns, rising sea levels and accelerating feedback loops are a commonplace feature of our lives. The number of environmental refugees is increasing and several island states and low-lying countries are becoming vulnerable. Corporate-induced climate change has set us on an ecocidal path of species extinction. Governments and their international platforms such as the Paris Climate Agreement deliver too little, too late. Most states, including South Africa, continue on their carbon-intensive energy paths, with devastating results. Political leaders across the world are failing to provide systemic solutions to the climate crisis. This is the context in which we must ask ourselves: how can people and class agency change this destructive course of history? Volume three in the Democratic Marxism series, The Climate Crisis investigates ecosocialist alternatives that are emerging. It presents the thinking of leading climate justice activists, campaigners and social movements advancing systemic alternatives and developing bottom-up, just transitions to sustain life. Through a combination of theoretical and empirical work, the authors collectively examine the challenges and opportunities inherent in the current moment. This volume builds on the class-struggle focus of Volume 2 by placing ecological issues at the center of democratic Marxism. Most importantly, it explores ways to renew historical socialism with democratic, ecosocialist alternatives to meet current challenges in South Africa and the world.