Table of Contents

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The selfish generation - Noel Hatch 3. Scotland's referendum and the politics of the future - Niki Seth-Smith 4. Power and a participatory democracy - Sarah Allan 5. A crisis in housing: co-operatives in Edinburgh and Birmingham - Mike Shaw and Sean Farmelo 6. Community organising after the London Riots - Wail Qasim 7. Crisis as opportunity: re-imagining the future of work - Rhiannon Colvin 8. Workfare: how jobs exclude young people - Craig Berry 9. Plan F: why we need feminist economics - Polly Trenow 10. Breaking the rule of generation Y: don't join anything - Adam Ramsay 11. Securing the environment's future - Matt Adam Williams 12. Going mainstream: counterculture and alternative media - Deborah Grayson 13. Who groks Spock? Logic and the market - Matthew Cheeseman 14. Conclusion

About the Author

Ray Filar is a contributing editor at openDemocracy magazine, working on the Transformation section. Their freelance journalism has been published in The Guardian, The Times, the Times Literary Supplement and the New Statesman, among others. Ray is interested in intersectional politics and queer subcultures. They tweet from @rayfilar.