The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity

Khasnabish, Doctor Alex; Haiven, Max

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1780329016 ISBN 13 : 9781780329017

Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 2014

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The idea of the imagination is as evocative as it is elusive. Not only does the imagination allow us to project ourselves beyond our physical and temporal limits, it also allows us to envision the future, individually and collectively. 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 the Arab Spring, Occupy, anti-austerity movements, and a renewed student radicalism - scholar-activists Khasnabish and Haiven explore the processes and possibilities for cultivating the radical imagination in dark times.

A lively, accessible and timely intervention that breaks new ground in speaking to radical politics, social research, social change, and the collective visions that inspire them.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Alex Khasnabish is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Canada. He is a founding member of Anthropologists for Justice and Peace and co-director of the Radical Imagination Project. He is the author of Zapatistas: Rebellion from the Grassroots to the Global (Zed Books, 2010)

Max Haiven teaches at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. he is the author of 'Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power' (Zed Books 2014)