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This summary discusses the challenges faced by local communities in the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch characterized by global human and nonhuman interconnectedness. It explores the struggles of indigenous groups and eco-villages in maintaining their unique practices and resisting global influences. The article also delves into the concept of sustainability, distinguishing between weak and strong sustainability, and emphasizes the importance of bridging the gap between global and local ways of knowing. It highlights the potential for technology-mediated experiences of the sacred to contribute to a sense of overall purpose in life. The text summarizes a special issue of Acta Borealia that focuses on sustaining local practices in a global world, covering topics such as imagination, expertise, learning, technology, and language. The authors argue for the crucial role of traditional handcraft skills and language in maintaining a meaningful connection to the local environment, as well as the importance of skill and craft in sustaining local practices and bridging communities. The summary concludes by acknowledging the contributions of the authors and expressing gratitude to the reviewers and editorial board. [Extracted from the article]

Overcoming the destructive power of the capitalist world system requires bringing relevant alternatives together in a way that respects their diversity. In this article, we investigate the significance of care – in its ethical, practical, and affective dimensions – in the task of uniting the pluriverse alternatives at moments and sites of counter-hegemonic struggle. Our analysis focuses on the degrowth movement and environmental justice movements. Adopting a post-Marxist discourse theory lens, we argue that care can mobilize and coalesce these pluriverse alternatives into temporarily united counter-hegemonic coalitions. For effectively disrupting the hegemony of the capitalist world system, we suggest that the pluriverse should meet the following three conditions: (1) the symbolic construction of the world system as an enemy to mobilize against, (2) a vision recognizing the foundational nature of care-based relations for pluriversal futures, and (3) practices of care fitting together with the parallel understandings and visions of the pluriverse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]