ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the tension between the largely American framing scenario of civilizational collapse and the exclusive emphasis on community capacity-building. It argues that what is missing in any account of the role of either economic growth or the nation-state in regulating violence. The chapter explores that the transition model needs to clarify whether a place-bound form of economy and the retreat of the state will see the re-emergence of clan society, kinship networks and the rebalancing of the I:we ratio in favour of the latter. Transition is positive about the ecological, communitarian and psychological benefits that might emerge in the wake of energy scarcity. It can reinvent place-bound ecocultures at the margins, but it is unlikely to succeed in orchestrating any process of revolt and systemic reorganization, in advance of any wider collapse. Transition has shown that it is possible to network among like-minded people across many different states
