Doctor Alex Khasnabish, Max Haiven

The Radical Imagination (eBook, PDF)

Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The idea of the imagination is as evocative as it is elusive. Not only does the imagination allow us to project ourselves beyond our own immediate space and time, it also allows us to envision the future, as individuals and as collectives. The radical imagination, then, is that spark of difference, desire and discontent that can be fanned into the flames of social change. Yet what precisely is the imagination and what might make it 'radical'? How can it be fostered and cultivated? How can it be studied and what are the possibilities and risks of doing so?

This book seeks to answer these questions at a crucial time. As we enter into a new cycle of struggles marked by a worldwide crisis of social reproduction, scholar-activists Max Haiven and Alex Khasnabish explore the processes and possibilities for cultivating the radical imagination in dark times.

A lively and crucial intervention in radical politics, social research and social change, and the collective visions and cultures that inspire them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780329031
• Artikelnr.: 41075749

Autorenporträt

Alex Khasnabish is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His first book, Zapatismo Beyond Borders: New Imaginations of Political Possibility (2008), focuses on the reasons for and consequences of the transnational resonance of Zapatismo and the links between radical political imaginations and global anti-capitalism. Khasnabish's current research is an extension of this project, focusing upon anti-capitalist action, anarchist organizing, imagination, and alternative-building in the north of the Americas. His work has been published in ephemera, AmeriQuests, Anthropologica, Critique of Anthropology, the Globalization and Autonomy Working Paper Series, Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Politics and Culture, and Upping the Anti.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Importance of the Radical Imagination in Dark Times Part
I: Solidarity Research 1. The Methods of Movements: Academic Crisis and
Activist Strategy 2. Convoking the Radical Imagination Part II: Dwelling in
the Hiatus 3. The Crisis of Reproduction 4. Reimagining Success and Failure
Part III: Making Space, Making Time 5. The Life and Times of Radical
Movements 6. The Temporalities of Oppression Part IV: The Methods of
Movements 7. Imagination, Strategy and Tactics 8. Towards a Prefigurative
Methodology