Support open knowledge: help us publish an open-access book on resistance and social change

We are launching a small grassroots fundraising campaign to cover the proofreading costs of the forthcoming edited volume Power to Create, Power to Destroy: Toward Cultures of Resistance and Radical Social Change, edited by Federico Venturini , Théo Rouhette , and Marcy Isabella and to be published by Punctum Books .

The book brings together critical voices from different fields and contexts to reflect on contemporary struggles, cultures of resistance, social ecology and possibilities for radical social transformation. It engages with questions of power, autonomy, collective action, political imagination, and emancipatory practices across disciplines and movements.

Importantly, the book will be published as open access under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, meaning it will be freely available to everyone, without paywalls, and reusable for educational, activist, and non-commercial purposes.

Punctum Books is a respected independent open-access publisher committed to experimental, critical, and politically engaged scholarship. However, like many small presses, it relies on authors and editors to secure limited funds for final production costs, including professional proofreading.

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Here the structure of the book:

Foreword - Chaia Heller

Struggling while building cultures of resistance, aka the long road of this volume - Federico Venturini, Théo Rouhette, Marcy Isabella

Section 1: Social ecology towards cultures of resistance

1.1 Social Ecology, Climate Justice and the Politics of Resistance - Brian Tokar

1.2 The Interconnectedness of Ecology and Democracy: Towards a strategy “from below” - Yavor Tarinski

1.3 Building a culture of resistance for the struggles to come - Federico Venturini

Section 2: Learning from the Zapatista and the Kurdish struggles

2.1 Autonomy and Destitution: Rojava and Zapatismo - Leo Jubault

2.2 The democratic autonomy project in Turkey: the promises and limitations - Cemali Akgün

2.3 Jinwar: the Place of Women as a Revolutionary Practice - Fabiana Cioni

Section 3: Learning from European municipalism and urban struggles

3.1 From radical utopia to the exercise of municipal governance: How can we think strategically about the municipalist struggle? - Magali Fricaudet

3.2 Building cultures of resistance through Solidarity Initiatives in the era of Greek crisis - Georgios Daremas

3.3 Should the trust on the state be destroyed? The crisis of autonomy and urban food struggles in Southern European cities - Inés Morales Bernardos

Section 4: Bridging struggles and alternatives

4.1 Collective forms of resistance in the gilets jaunes movement - Théo Rouhette

4.2 Ecological culture of resistance for “Apocalyptic Times”: Extinction Rebellion by the perspective of Social Ecology - Matyas Krizkovsky

4.3 Reflections on a sustainable organising approach: rethinking burnout and demobilisation in Greece - Krini Kafiris

4.4 A culture for resisting cooperative (movement) degeneration - Orestis Varkarolis

4.5 Watching Out and Getting Woke: Notes Towards an AnarchoCritical Pedagogy - Marcy Isabella