Societal Transitions to Sustainability The Prefigurative Politics of Present Transformation

Foreword: Patterning a Sustainable Future (
Karen O’Brien
).- Chapter 1. The Prefigurative Politics of Present Transformation (
Siddharth Sareen and Sirkku Juhola
).- Part I: Urban Sites of Experimentation and Contestation.-Chapter 2. Acclimatising to the Future: Prefiguration and Urban Experimentation in Public Policy (

Bård Torvetjønn Haugland

and Timo von Wirth

).- Chapter 3. Prefigurative Politics in Citizen Science: The Golf Vinoř Project as a Case of Present Transformations (
David Stella
).- Chapter 4. Prefiguring Consumption Reduction in Shadow Networks: Recirculating Resources, Knowledge and Skills in Urban Tool Libraries and Community Bike Workshops (
Simon Batterbury, Sabrina Chakori and Carlos Uxo
).- Chapter 5. Starting by Doing: Ethical Orientations for Open-Ended Prefigurative Action (
Bob Grumiau and Ian Hughes
).- Chapter 6. Prefigurative politics of post-growth futures in the making: learning from transformative practices that leverage (temporary) convivial space (
Steven R. McGreevy, Corelia Baibarac-Duignan and Maximilian Spiegelberg
).- Part II: Spaces of conviviality and politics.- Chapter 7. Broadening the Understanding of Deconstruction in Prefigurative Social Spaces (
Giuseppe Feola
).- Chapter 8. Prefigurative Politics in Action: Youth Climate Activism and Arendt’s Politics of New Beginnings (
Turkan Firinci Orman
).- Chapter 9. A Multi-Political Reflection on the transformative potential of citizen panels: Insights from five case studies (
Maria Luisa Lode, Samyajit Basu, Cathy Macharis
).- Chapter 10. Laughter, role-play, and immersion: Rediscovering the audience in prefigurative politics through carnival (
Frank Eckerle
).- Chapter 11. Community-based proleptic environmentalism: food, energy, and Kafka’s ‘Weg-von-hier’ (
Gerald Taylor Aiken
).- Chapter 12. Imagining futures in the present: Conceptualising prefigurative impulses through the politics of organising (
Kavitha Ravikumar
).- Chapter 13. Inhabitation as Prefigurative Politics and Source of Political Transformations (
Jens Brandt and Jan Lilliendahl Larsen
).- Chapter 14. Prefiguring Conservation, Peace, and Self-Determination in the Salween Peace Park in Karen State, Myanmar (
Zali Fung and Sheila Htoo
).- Part III: Sectoral movements.-  Chapter 15.Climate Change as a Crisis of Recognition: Prefigurative Politics of Socio-Ecological Movements for Food Sovereignty in Brazil (
Juliana E. Goncalves
).- Chapter 16.The potential role of the law clinics in prefigurative law and politics: Environmental law clinics as a case study (
Zerrin Savasan
).- Chapter 17. Prefiguring healthcare: Community-driven digital therapeutics and the politics of patient innovation (
João Rocha-Gomes
).- Chapter 18. Prefigurative Politics of Transformations in Land Use Decision-Making Systems in Europe (
Simeon Vaňo, Julia Leventon, Peter Mederly
).- Chapter 19. For a More-Than-Human Politics of Short Food Supply Chains in Times of Human-Plant Migrations (
Elisa T. Bertuzzo
).