Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media

Fantasy and myth have long been humanity’s most advanced technologies for collective dreaming. Today they are helping us adopt a biocentric lens, re-kin us with other forms of life, and assist us in the transition to an ecological civilization. Deliberately moving away from dystopian narratives toward anticipatory imaginations of sustainable futures, this book blends chapters by top scholars in the fields of fantasy, myth, and Young Adult literature.

Check out this chapter to read about the idea of the Anthropocene and how we can use fantasy to engage with that.

Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action

Queer Data demonstrates why it is important to understand, collect and analyse queer data, the benefits and challenges involved in doing so, and how we might better use queer data in our work. Arming us with the tools for action, this book shows how greater knowledge about queer identities is instrumental in informing decisions about resource allocation, changes to legislation, access to services, representation and visibility.

Read this chapter to learn about queer data around the world.

Value Struggles: Looking at Capitalism through the Wine Glass

There is no better product than wine to unmask some of the contradictions of contemporary capitalism. Wine is one of the most fragmented and diversified industries, and one that is not yet completely dominated by large corporate interests. It is also where all sorts of antagonisms against the power of capital are taking place. Value Struggles shows how these tensions and contradictions play out over the valuation of place, nature and people.

Explore the introduction to learn about why the author chose wine as a lens to examine capitalism.

Housing as Commons: Housing Alternatives as Response to the Current Urban Crisis

Experiences of the struggle for housing, ignited by the lack of social and affordable housing, have led to shared and self-managed housing areas. This open access book traces contemporary practices of urban commoning through which people re-define housing economies. It explores a variety of urban contexts through global case studies from across the Global North and South, in search of concrete examples that illustrate the potential of urban commoning.

This chapter focuses on food as a fundamental aspect within two squatted housing commons in Barcelona, examining where the right to housing meets reclaims for food sovereignty and for agroecology.

Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Youth Entrepreneurship: Recentering the Voices of Marginalized Communities in Africa

This open access book analyzes the limitations of intervention programs designed by the state to address unemployment among marginalized communities in Africa and foregrounds indigenous knowledge systems in fostering entrepreneurship. Using case studies and theoretical research, it investigates how engagement with marginalized communities and indigenous knowledges in entrepreneurship and employment policies could foster more positive outcomes. It recenters the voices of Indigenous youth within entrepreneurship programs to highlight the interests, priorities, and challenges of these communities.

Bloomsbury Academic designated Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Youth Entrepreneurship its UN SDG-aligned book of 2025.

In this chapter, read about the reciprocal relationship Indigenous people have with their environment and the impact of development on the vulnerability of Indigenous communities to natural hazards.