Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on the issue of transformatory constituencies. Though there is no intention to dwell on the literature. Much is simply gibberish: which is extremely disconcerting given that a generation of progressively minded youth across the globe, desperate for genuine answers to the dire predicament humanity faces, and disen-chanted with the mainstream policy discourse, lurch from conference to speaking engagement to imbibe it. The book concerns at certainly models of future societies on offer for humanity to turn to as it exits from globalization. It discusses capitalism 'frees' human beings from these interpersonal relations of domination and subordination. Mainstream neoclassical economics claims economic life can be studied directly in terms of human behavior. The book explores the practice for making not only a livable future, but one of human flourishing.