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Ho-fung Hung on the Political Economy of China.


Shownotes Ho-fung Hung


Prof. Ho-fung Hung at the Johns Hopkins University:

https://soc.jhu.edu/directory/ho-fung-hung/


The Conference ‘China and Us: Perspectives on Peace, Human Rights and Socio-Ecological Transformation’:

https://www.attac.de/china-konferenz/startseite


Ho-fung, H. (2015). The China Boom. Why China Will Not Rule the World. Columbia University Press.    

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-china-boom/9780231540223/


on Citic Press: 

https://www.group.citic/en/Diversified_Portfolio/New_Consumption/Citic_Publish/


on the 1989 protests in China: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre


on the fiscal reform in China in 1994: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax-Sharing_Reform_of_China_in_1994


on Carl Schmitt:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schmitt

https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz/archiv/537943/ortung-und-ordnung-carl-schmitt-im-nationalsozialismus/


on Benito Mussolini: 

https://www.dhm.de/lemo/biografie/benito-mussolini

https://nationalgeographic.de/geschichte-und-kultur/2023/09/benito-mussolini-aufstieg-und-fall-eines-faschistischen-diktators/


the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China: 

https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/lawsregulations/201911/20/content_WS5ed8856ec6d0b3f0e9499913.html


on Foucault's ‘Regime of Truth’: 

Lorenzini, D. (2015). What is a ‘Regime of Truth’?. Le foucaldien 1(1). 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317961938_What_is_a_Regime_of_Truth


the mentioned article by Ho-fung Hung in the Jacobin: 

Ho-fung, H. (2023). Mussolini in Beijing. Jacobin. 

https://jacobin.com/2023/02/mussolini-in-beijing


on China’s falling CO2 emissions: 

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-21-months/


on renewable energy in China: 

https://www.carbonbrief.org/china-briefing-5-february-2026-clean-energys-share-of-economy-record-renewables-thawing-relations-with-uk/


Ho-fung, H. (2026). The China Question. Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear. Cambridge University Press. 

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/china-question/C15B207366F98DC034ED279435A8CCCA


on the case of Solyndra:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra


on the economic policy of Mao Zedong and China’s relationship to the Soviet Union, Felix Wemheuer’s youtube channel ‘Studying Maoist China’ is recommended: 

https://www.youtube.com/@felixwemheuerstudyingmaois1051


on Chile during the Cold War: 

Lockhart, J. (2016). Reimagining Chile’s Cold War Experience: From the Conflict’s Origins to Salvador Allende’s Inauguration. University of Arizona. 

https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/620841


on Salvador Allende: 

www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Allende


on the Paris Commune:

Badiou, A. (2021). The Paris Commune: Marx, Mao, Tomorrow. Monthly Review 73(1). 

https://monthlyreview.org/articles/the-paris-commune-marx-mao-tomorrow/


Weber, I. M. (2021). How China Escaped Shock Therapy. The Market Reform Debate. Routledge.

https://www.routledge.com/How-China-Escaped-Shock-Therapy-The-Market-Reform-Debate/Weber/p/book/9781032008493


the mentioned publication on i.a. guerilla policymaking: 

Heilmann, S. & Perry, E. J. (2011). Mao’s Invisible Hand. The Political Foundations of Adaptive Governance in China. Harvard University Press. 

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674060630


the quote ‘it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism’ is commonly attributed to Frederic Jameson: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_Jameson


on Wolfgang Streeck: 

https://www.mpifg.de/457994/Streeck


on the 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Hungarian_parliamentary_election


Relevant Episodes of Future Histories 


S04E02 | Merle Groneweg zu Staatskapitalismus, Ökologie und Klimapolitik in China

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s04/e02-merle-groneweg-zu-staatskapitalismus-oekologie-und-klimapolitik-in-china/


S03E60 | Felix Wemheuer zu unserer Zukunft mit China

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e60-felix-wemheuer-zu-unserer-zukunft-mit-china/


S02E09 | Isabella M. Weber zu Chinas drittem Weg 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e09-isabella-m-weber-zu-chinas-drittem-weg/


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Stefan Niklas zur Ästhetik des Planetarischen.


Shownotes Stefan Niklas


Stefan Niklas an der Universität Amsterdam:

https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/n/i/s.niklas/s.niklas.html?cb


sein Forschungsprojekt “A Planetary Aesthetics for the Future Democratic Society”:

https://asca.uva.nl/research/funded-research-projects/niklas/niklas.html


zu Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayatri_Chakravorty_Spivak


zu Dipesh Chakrabarty:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipesh_Chakrabarty


Chakrabarty, D. (2022). Das Klima der Geschichte im planetarischen Zeitalter. Suhrkamp.

https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/dipesh-chakrabarty-das-klima-der-geschichte-im-planetarischen-zeitalter-t-9783518587799


zu Herbert Marcuse:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse


Marcuse, H. (1977). Die Permanenz der Kunst. Wider eine bestimmte marxistische Ästhetik: Ein Essay. Hauser Verlag

https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/publications/1970s/1977-die-permanenz-der-kunst.html


zu Theodor W. Adorno:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_W._Adorno


Adorno, T. W. (1973). Ästhetische Theorie. Suhrkamp.

https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/theodor-w-adorno-aesthetische-theorie-t-9783518276020


zur Frankfurter Schule:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurter_Schule


Simmel, G. (2023). Soziologische Ästhetik. Springer.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-40939-5


zu Arthur C. Clarke:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke


zu Ursula K. Le Guin:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin


zu Octavia E. Butler:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_E._Butler


zu den K-Gruppen:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-Gruppe


zu Ernst Bloch:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Bloch


zu Michel Serres:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Serres


zu Rafael Correa:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Correa


zu Bruno Latour:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Latour


Latour, B. (2009). Das Parlament der Dinge. Für eine politische Ökologie. Suhrkamp.

https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/bruno-latour-das-parlament-der-dinge-t-9783518295540


Ferdinand, M. (2021). Decolonial Ecology. Thinking from the Carribean World. Polity.

https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=a-decolonial-ecology-thinking-from-the-caribbean-world--9781509546220


zum Ministerium der Kultur, Dekolonialisierung und Depatriarchalisierung in Bolivien:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Cultures_(Bolivia)


Schaupp, S. (2024). Stoffwechselpolitik. Arbeit, Natur und die Zukunft des Planeten. Suhrkamp.

https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/simon-schaupp-stoffwechselpolitik-t-9783518029862


Newitz, A. (2023). The Terraformers. Tor Books.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250228017/theterraformers/


Scott, J. C. (2025). In Praise of Floods. The Untamed River and the Life it Brings. Yale University Press.

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300278491/in-praise-of-floods/


Robinson, K. S. (2023). Das Ministerium für die Zukunft. Heyne Verlag.

https://www.penguin.de/buecher/kim-stanley-robinson-das-ministerium-fuer-die-zukunft/taschenbuch/9783453322868


zu Joseph Beuys:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Beuys


zur Sozialen Plastik:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soziale_Plastik


zu KPOP Demon Hunters:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPop_Demon_Hunters


Nick Psomas an der Universität Amsterdam:

https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/s/n.psomas/n.psomas.html


Marcuse, H. (1969). An Essay on Liberation. Beacon Press.

https://monoskop.org/images/2/27/Marcuse_Herbert_Essay_on_Liberation.pdf


zum ökologischen Fußabdruck:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96kologischer_Fu%C3%9Fabdruck


zu Murray Bookchin:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bookchin


zur Erdsystemwissenschaft:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdsystemwissenschaft


Brunner, C. (2020). Epistemische Gewalt. Wissen und Herrschaft in der kolonialen Moderne. transcript.

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5131-7/epistemische-gewalt/


zu Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing-Games (MMORPGs):

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_Multiplayer_Online_Role-Playing_Game


zu demokratischem Konföderalismus:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demokratischer_Konf%C3%B6deralismus


zum Hambacher Forst und den Protesten gegen dessen Rodung:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hambacher_Forst


zu Anna Kornbluh:

http://www.annakornbluh.com/


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https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e55-kim-stanley-robinson-on-real-utopian-futures/


S03E45 | Luise Meier zu kommunistischem Utopisieren

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e45-luise-meier-zu-kommunistischem-utopisieren/


S03E44 | Anna Kornbluh on Climate Counteraesthetics

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S03E28 | Silke van Dyk zu alternativer Gouvernementalität

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e28-silke-van-dyk-zu-alternativer-gouvernementalitaet/


S03E19 | Wendy Brown on Socialist Governmentality

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e19-wendy-brown-on-socialist-governmentality/


S03E12 | Jens Schröter und Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle zu Computerspielen als transformationskritischen Medien

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S03E08 | Simon Schaupp zu Stoffwechselpolitik

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e08-simon-schaupp-zu-stoffwechselpolitik/


S03E07 | Stefan Meretz und Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle zum Simulieren von Utopien (Teil 2)

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e06-stefan-meretz-und-manuel-scholz-waeckerle-zum-simulieren-von-utopien/


S03E06 | Stefan Meretz und Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle zum Simulieren von Utopien

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Rodrigo Nunes on ecologies of organization and democratic transformation.  


Shownotes Rodrigo Nunes


Dr. Rodrigo Guimaraes Nunes at the University of Essex:

https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/NUNES97805/Rodrigo-Guimaraes%20Nunes


Rodrigo Nunes at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio):

http://www.fil.puc-rio.br/o-departamento/corpo-docente/rodrigo-guimaraes-nunes/


Nunes, R. (2025). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organization. Verso. 

https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal


Nunes, R. (forthcoming, October 2026). Anatomy of Disintegration. What Brazil Reveals About the Global Far Right. HaymarketBooks. 

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2881-anatomy-of-disintegration


on ‘fidelity’ by Alain Badiou: 

Badious, A. (1988-2022). Being and Event I-III. 

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/being-and-event-9781472511065/


on the Russian revolution:   

https://www.britannica.com/event/Russian-Revolution


on Democracia Real Ya!:

http://www.democraciarealya.org.es/


on Juventud Sin Futuro: 

https://www.youtube.com/user/JuventudSINFuturo/videos


on Complexity Theory, Chaos Theory and Non-Linear Dynamic Systems:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/complexity-theory

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/chaos-theory


Lorenz, E. N. (1975). Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil set off a Tornado in Texas? 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wSIvtZQaoMHrKUImVBH5gqn303JX0M5n/view?usp=sharing


Italian Communist Party ‘Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI):’ 

https://ilpartitocomunista.it/


on Circolo ARCI:

https://www.arci.it/


further reading on (Italian) communist history: 

Magri, L. (2019). The Tailor of Ulm: A History of Communism. Verso. 

https://www.versobooks.com/products/2211-the-tailor-of-ulm?srsltid=AfmBOor6D6hcoIOngJTTcfkoWSV8uvd9Ej3goiOtBlD6rkgWEqs3Zkcg


on ‘Autonomia Operaia’ and the Autonomist movement in Italy in the 70s: 

Wright, S. (2017). Storming Heaven. Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism. 

https://www.plutobooks.com/product/storming-heaven/


on potentia/potestas see Chapter 1 ‘Towards a Theory of Political Organisation’ of Rodrigo’s book: 

Nunes, R. (2025). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organization. Verso. 

https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal


on Lotta Continua and Potere Operaio:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotta_Continua

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potere_Operaio


on Partito Democratico: 

https://partitodemocratico.it/


Deleuze, G. & Guattari, F. (1983). Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press. 

https://www.abebooks.com/9780816612253/Anti-Oedipus-Capitalism-Schizophrenia-Deleuze-Gilles-0816612250/plp


Wright, E. O. (2010). Envisioning Real Utopias. Verso Books. 

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2143-envisioning-real-utopias?srsltid=AfmBOooibKTSQ_s7NTVZJ1Bvex4_8PNRx1KiVQV6nq6nEKRQZ6XA9PXP


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S04E01 | Yousaf Nishat-Botero on Ecologies of Planning and Metabolic Municipalism

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s04/e01-yousaf-nishat-botero-on-ecologies-of-planning-and-metabolic-municipalism/


S03E59 | Cédric Durand on Ecological Planning 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e59-cedric-durand-on-ecological-planning/


S03E52 | Alexander Neupert-Doppler zu Kairos und Verbindender Organisation 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e52-alexander-neupert-doppler-zu-kairos-und-verbindender-organisation/


S03E51 | Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism II 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e51-aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-ii/


S03E50 | Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism I 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e50-aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-i/


S03E42 | Rüdiger Haude und Thomas Wagner zu Herrschaftsfreien Institutionen

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e42-ruediger-haude-und-thomas-wagner-zu-herrschaftsfreien-institutionen/


S03E40 | Jan Overwijk on Cybernetic Capitalism and Critical Systems Theory 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e40-jan-overwijk-on-cybernetic-capitalism-and-critical-systems-theory/


S02E44 | Evgeny Morozov on Discovery Beyond Competition 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e44-evgeny-morozov-on-discovery-beyond-competition/


S01E58 | Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e58-jasper-bernes-on-planning-and-anarchy/


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Merle Groneweg zu Staatskapitalismus, Ökologie und Klimapolitik in China.


Shownotes Merle Groneweg


M.A. M.Sc. Merle Groneweg an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 

https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/de/ostasien/mitarbeiter-innen/personal/merle-groneweg


Merles Interview-Reihe bei Klimareporter.de zu Chinas Klima- und Umweltpolitik:

https://klimareporter.de/tag/chinas-klima-und-umweltpolitik


zur Konferenz ‘China und WIR: Perspektiven für Frieden, Menschenrechte und sozial-ökologischen Wandel’:

https://www.attac.de/china-konferenz/startseite


zu ‘Nationally Determined Contributions’ unter dem Pariser Klimaabkommen:   

https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/nationally-determined-contributions-ndcs


zu Chinas neuem Fünfjahresplan: 

https://www.surplusmagazin.de/china-neuer-funfjahresplan-nationalervolkskongress/


zu CREA (Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air):

https://energyandcleanair.org/


zu CREAs Analyse zu Klimafolgen Chinas neuem Fünfjahresplan: 

https://energyandcleanair.org/chinas-15th-five-year-plan-implications-for-climate-and-energy-transition/


zu ‘civil-military integration’:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93civil_fusion


zu ‘dual-use technology:’:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-use_technology


zum Bereich ‘Rohstoffpolitik’ von PowerShift e.V.:

https://power-shift.de/themen/rohstoffpolitik-globale-gerechtigkeit-schaffen/


Fatheuer, T., Fuhr, L. & Unmüßig, B. (2015). Kritik der grünen Ökonomie. oekom.

https://www.oekom.de/buch/kritik-der-gruenen-oekonomie-9783865817488


zu ‘the securitization of everything’ von MERICS (Mercator Institute for China Studies):

https://merics.org/en/report/comprehensive-national-security-unleashed-how-xis-approach-shapes-chinas-policies-home-and


Merles Interview mit Lifei Yi in der Klimareporter.de Serie: 

https://klimareporter.de/international/chinas-umweltpolitik-gibt-dem-staat-mehr-macht


Yifei Li an der NYU Shanghai: 

https://shanghai.nyu.edu/academics/faculty/directory/yifei-li


zu den erwähnten Sondervermögen für die Bundeswehr und Infrastruktur: 

https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2022/kw22-de-sondervermoegen-897614

https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/sondervermoegen-doku-1106000


zu ‘Special Economic Zones’: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_economic_zones_of_China


Xiangming, C. (2020). Change and Continuity in Special Economic Zones: A Reassessment and Lessons from China. International Corporations Journal 26(2). 

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3623042


zur Recycling-Kampagne in Shanghai:

https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/recycling-muelltrennung-in-shanghai


Schaupp, S. (2024). Stoffwechselpolitik. Arbeit, Natur und die Zukunft des Planeten. Suhrkamp.

https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/simon-schaupp-stoffwechselpolitik-t-9783518029862


zum Vorschlag der IEA (International Energy Agency) zur Reduzierung der Autofahrten angesichts der Weltölkrise: 

https://www.iea.org/news/new-iea-report-highlights-options-to-ease-oil-price-pressures-on-consumers-in-response-to-middle-east-supply-disruptions


zu Merles Interview mit Client Earth bei Klimareporter.de: 

https://klimareporter.de/international/china-hat-erhebliche-fortschritte-im-umweltrecht-gemacht


zu Client Earth: 

https://www.clientearth.org/


zur European Union CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism) Policy: 

https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism_en


zu Zollpolitik zwischen China und dem ‘Globalen Süden’:

Adachi, A. (2025). The Global South in the wake of China's economic surplus: Industrial challenges for developing countries and policy recommendations for the EU. BKHS Perspectives. 

https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/fileadmin/BKHS_Perspectives_25_09_The_Global_South_in_the_wake_of_China_s_economic_surplus.pdf


zum Sprichwort ‘Frauen tragen die Hälfte des Himmels’: 

https://ostasieninstitut.com/bibliothek/sprichwoerter-ostasiens/frauen-tragen-die-haelfte-des-himmels-%E5%A5%B3%E4%BA%BA%E8%83%BD%E9%A1%B6%E5%8D%8A%E8%BE%B9%E5%A4%A9%E3%80%82-nuren-neng-ding-ban-biantian/


zu den UN Millenniums-Entwicklungszielen und zur Armutsbekämpfung in China: 

https://www.un.org/german/sites/default/files/2024-09/MDG%25202015%2520web.pdf

https://progressive.international/blueprint/16a350d7-9d05-49d6-b855-5de756f52963-pro-poor-development-how-china-eradicated-poverty/de/


zum ‘New International Economic Order’ für die Reformierung internationaler Wirtschaftsbeziehungen: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_International_Economic_Order

https://www.iwm.at/publication/iwmpost-article/the-new-international-economic-order-useful-history-for-a-multipolar-world


zur Afrikanischen Gruppe (African Group) der United Nations: 

https://www.africanunion-un.org/africangroup


zum GATT Abkommen 1947 (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade):

https://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/gatt47_e.htm


zu Deng Xiaoping und seiner Öffnungspolitik : 

https://www.bpb.de/themen/asien/china/44262/portraet-deng-xiaoping/


zum IAA (Industrial Accelerator Act):

https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/growth/items/928572/en


zum IRA (Inflation Reduction Act):

https://www.energy.gov/edf/inflation-reduction-act-2022


zum Third World Network-Africa: 

https://www.twnafrica.org/


zur 14. WTO-Ministerkonferenz in Yaoundé, Kamerun: 

https://www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/hintergrund-aktuell/576435/14-wto-ministerkonferenz-in-yaounde/


von Redecker, E. (2026). Dieser Drang nach Härte. Über den neuen Faschismus. S. Fischer. 

https://www.fischerverlage.de/buch/eva-von-redecker-dieser-drang-nach-haerte-9783103977240


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S03E60 | Felix Wemheuer zu unserer Zukunft mit China 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e60-felix-wemheuer-zu-unserer-zukunft-mit-china/


S03E08 | Simon Schaupp zu Stoffwechselpolitik

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e08-simon-schaupp-zu-stoffwechselpolitik/


S02E38 | Eva von Redecker zu Bleibefreiheit und Demokratischer Planung

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e38-eva-von-redecker-zu-bleibefreiheit-und-demokratischer-planung/


S02E09 | Isabella M. Weber zu Chinas drittem Weg 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e09-isabella-m-weber-zu-chinas-drittem-weg/


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Yousaf Nishat-Botero on the Ecologies of Planning and Metabolic Municipalism.


Shownotes Yousaf Nishat-Botero


Dr. Yousaf Nishat-Botero at the University of Birmingham: 

https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/en/persons/yousaf-nishat-botero/


Nishat-Botero, Y. (2023). Planning’s ecologies: Democratic planning in the age of planetary crises. Organization. Special Issue: Public Value, 1-23.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13505084231186749


Nishat-Botero, Y. & Thompson, M. (2025). Planning in Nature’s Metropolis: Metabolic Municipalism and Ecological Planning in Barcelona. Environment and Planning D.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02637758251364061


Nishat-Botero, Y. & Thompson, M. The land question and postcapitalist countrysides: towards a town-country synthesis. In Postcapitalist Countrysides (N. Gallent, M.Gkartzios, M. Scott, A. Purves (Eds.). UCL Press.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379514594_The_land_question_and_postcapitalist_countrysides_towards_a_town-country_synthesis


on ‘metabolism’ in Liebig and Marx:

Clark, B. & Foster, J. B. (2018). The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Metabolic Rift. Monthly Review 70(3).

https://monthlyreview.org/articles/the-robbery-of-nature/


Marx, K. ([1867] 2004). Capital: Volume I. Penguin U

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/35192/capital-by-karl-marx-intro-ernest-mandel-trans-ben-fowkes/9780140445688


Sorg, C. (2023). Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail: Toward an Expanded Notion of Democratically Planned Postcapitalism. Critical Sociology 49(3), 475-493.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08969205221081058


Salleh, A. (2010). From Metabolic Rift to “Metabolic Value”: Reflections on Environmental Sociology and the Alternative Globalization Movement. Organization & Environment 23(2), 205-219.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27068655


on ‘capitalism as socioecological totality’:

Fraser, N. (2022). Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and what we can do about it. Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/2685-cannibal-capitalism


Moore, J. (2015). Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/74-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life


Planning for Entropy. (2022). Democratic Economic Planning, Social Metabolism and the Environment. Science and Society Journal. Vol 82, Nr 2. New York: Guilford Publications

https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.2022.86.2.291


Latour, B. & Weibel, P. (2020). Critical Zones. The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth. MIT Press.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044455/critical-zones/


on the Oskar-Lange-Model:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lange_model


Barca, S. (2021) Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-hegemonic Anthropocene. Elements in Environmental Humanities. Cambridge University Press.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/forces-of-reproduction/BE9B0DBDC89593F3284FE3F51D3B0418


on Donna Harraway’s ‘response-ability’:

Harraway, D. (2016). Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.

https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble


Braudel, F. (1979 [1992]). Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol I-III. University of California Press.

https://www.ucpress.edu/books/civilization-and-capitalism-15th-18th-century-vol-i/paper


Nunes, R. (2021). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization. Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal?srsltid=AfmBOoqNKlXZJs9HrqEBU4BlAF7hbaxEzAOWD1oQCV6M_Kwtg5n9xOcO


on Otto Neurath’s political economy:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neurath/political-economy.html


on the quote by Otto Neurath:

Otto Neurath in O'Neill, J. (2003) ‘Socialism, Associations and the Market’, Economy and Society 32(2): 184–206

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249006144_Socialism_associations_and_the_market


on Friedrich Hayek’s argument against centralized planning:

Hayek, F. A. (1945). The Use of Knowledge in Society. The American Economic Review 35(4), 519-530.

https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw.html

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/hayek-opposes-centralized-economic-planning


Morozov, E. (2019). Digital Socialism? New Left Review 116/117.

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism


Rochowicz, N. (2025). Planning progress: Incorporating innovation and structural change into models of economic planning. Competition & Change, 29(1), 64-82.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10245294231220690?


Jameson, F. (1991). Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Duke University Press.

https://web.education.wisc.edu/halverson/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2012/12/jameson.pdf


Toscano, A. & Kinkle, J. (2015). Cartographies of the Absolute. Zero Books.

https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/cartographies-of-the-absolute


Anderson, P. (1961). Sweden: Mr. Crosland’s Dreamland. New Left Review 1/7.

https://newleftreview.org/issues/i7/articles/perry-anderson-sweden-mr-crosland-s-dreamland-part-1


Mandel, E. (1986). In Defence of Socialist Planning. New Left Review 1/159. https://newleftreview.org/issues/i159/articles/ernest-mandel-in-defence-of-socialist-planning


Thompson, M., & Nishat-Botero, Y. (2025). Postcapitalist Planning and Urban Revolution. Competition & Change, 29(1), 101-120.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10245294231210980


Durand, C., Hofferberth, E. & Schmelzer, M. (2023). Planning beyond growth. The case for economic democracy within limits. Political Economy Working Papers. University of Geneva. 

https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:166429


on Barcelona En Comú:

https://barcelonaencomu.cat/


on Grupo AGBAR and the anti-privatisation movement:  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Agbar

https://ejatlas.org/conflict/remunicipalisation-and-anti-privatization-movement-in-barcelona1


on the Socialist party of Catalonia: 

https://www.socialistes.cat/


on the airport expansion in Barcelona:

https://ejatlas.org/conflict/prat-airport-expansion-catalonia-spain


on the paper by Union Populaire: 

https://programme.lafranceinsoumise.fr/livrets/planification-ecologique/


on the quote from Mike Davis:

Davis, M. (1990). City of Quartz. Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Verso. 

https://www.versobooks.com/products/1320-city-of-quartz?srsltid=AfmBOor1VtvQMJu_87qS8EDz0EcwP9KABUrajgH5LX2pdFNXWVC5Su6B


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S03E59 | Cédric Durand on Ecological Planning 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e59-cedric-durand-on-ecological-planning/


S03E50 Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism II

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e51-aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-ii/


S03E49 Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism I

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e50-aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-i/


S03E21 | Christoph Sorg zu Finanzwirtschaft als Planung

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e21-christoph-sorg-zu-finanzwirtschaft-als-planung/


S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on Sociometabolic Planning

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e03-planning-for-entropy-on-sociometabolic-planning/


S02E44 | Evgeny Morozov on Discovery Beyond Competition 

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e44-evgeny-morozov-on-discovery-beyond-competition/


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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:


Democratic planning – an information website:

https://www.democratic-planning.com/


Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.

https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1


Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]

https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction


International Network for Democratic Economic Planning

https://www.indep.network/


Democratic Planning Research Platform:

https://www.planningresearch.net/


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