Introduction: No Exit? The Futures of Progressive Politics Albena Azmanova, University of London, UK

Part ONE: Critique, Criticism, Emancipation
Chapter 1: Critique at an Impasse: The Neo-Feudal Condition and the Inclusionary Imagination Gal Hertz, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, Israel and Naveh Frumer, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Chapter 2: Emancipation and Critique - From Paradox to Pragmatism Iain MacKenzie, University of Kent, UK and Robert Porter, Ulster University, UK
Chapter 3: The Dialectic of Utopia: Dystopia and the Possibility of Utopia Gerard Delanty, University of Sussex, UK
Chapter 4: Paradoxes of Intellectual and Social Emancipation in “Of the Coming of John” and Barbie James Chamberlain, Mississippi State University, USA.

Part TWO: From Deadlock to Breakthrough. Political Logistics and Cultural Technologies
Chapter 5: The Power and the Peril of Humanizing Projects Jeffrey Flynn, Fordham University, USA
Chapter 6: Empowerment as Surrender: How Women Lost the Battle for Emancipation as They Won Equality and InclusionAlbena Azmanova, University of London, UK
Chapter 7: From Emancipation to Autocracy – 1989's Wrong Turns Evgenii Dainov, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria
Chapter 8: Freedom with a Helping of Blowback: The Paradox of Postcolonial Emancipation in Afghanistan Bojan Savic, University of Kent, UK
Chapter 9: The Snowden Paradox Raphaël Wolff, Inholland University, Netherlands
Chapter 10: Digital Daddy Knows Best Nolen Gertz, University of Twente, Netherlands

Chapter 11: High Performance Hell: Can Homo Academicus Survive the McManagerial University Peter Fleming, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Part Three: Emancipatory Political Economy?
Chapter 12: Housing as Cooperation: The Emancipative Character of Collective PropertyRegina Kreide, Justus Liebig University, Germany
Chapter 13: The Paradox of Emancipation of the Contract of Employment Nicola Countouris, University College London, UK
Chapter 14: The Paradoxes of 'Freeing' Work – from Precarization to Democratization Lisa Herzog, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Chapter 15: The Strange World of Corporate Power: The Paradox of Corporate Arbitrage Anastasia Nesvetailova, University of London, UK and Ronen Palan, University of London, UK

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