Abstract

We live in a time of crisis. Economic crisis, ecological crisis, refugee crisis. Scholars talk about the end of history, the end of politics, the end of nature, the end of the world as we know it. Racism and neo-fascism are on the march pretty much all over the Western world; Mexican children are torn away from their parents at the US border; temperatures are rising everywhere ; islands of microplastic accumulate in the Pacific, and the latest news: Europe’s taxpayers have been swindled of €55 billion, as revealed by the so-called #CumExFiles.1So the old question bears repeating: What is to be done? Or, perhaps more accurately...