• Publisher: *cf.
• 345 pages
• Author: Marta Gregorčič
• Original title: Potencia: samoživost revolucionarnih bojev

Ever since the 1970s, when the crisis of capitalism began deepening, there have been prevailing mainstream social studies theories, development strategies, and agencies that have attempted to prove that capitalism has no alternative, that it is a unicum in dealing with culture and nature. Today it is almost impossible to find a state in which alternative policies of self-determination – a revolutionary policy of the self-managed, self-sustainable, autonomous, self-organised and self-governing collectives and communities, seized factories, recuperated soil, social centres, alternative cultural and political islands that, despite brutal forms of capitalist subjugation, created new social systems, new societal relationships and alternative forms of cohabitation with the planet.

Gregorčič is a Slovenian social scientist who, for over a decade, has used anthropological and sociological approaches to research the alternative policies of self-determination in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East and has included them in social sciences theory. Using the examples of individual revolutionary policies, she shows when the policies of self-determination are already an alternative policy to the existing capitalism (and its crises), what individual revolts bring, and, finally, what their political, economic, environmental, and cultural importance is for future generations.

About the author

Marta Gregorčič

Marta Gregorčič (1977) holds a PhD in sociology. She is an associate professor of cultural studies, researcher, editor and activist. She has published several academic books and articles in international academic journals. She co-authored a novel A Girl with Candy with Jasmina Ahmetaj.