As part of the Canadian Anthropology Association (CASCA) and the Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) meetings in Halifax this May, The Radical Imagination Project is pleased to be participating in a workshop on Solidarity Research with Social Movements with Marina Sitrin. Members of the public are welcome to attend. Exact location details will be…
We have produced a 34-minute audio documentary about our project, which includes a discussion of the aims and ambitions with co-directors Alex Khasnabish and Max Haiven and clips of interviews with a small sample of the people we interviewed and worked with in the first phase of the project. You can listen to the documentary…
Original: http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/talking-radical-radio/2014/09/exploring-radical-imagination-halifax On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Alex Khasnabish and Max Haiven talk about their work in Halifax to understand the role of radical imagination in struggles for social justice, and to use that understanding to support movements in the city. When most of us hear the word “imagination,” what comes to mind…
Original: https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/alex-khasnabish-max-haiven/why-social-movements-need-radical-imagination This is an edited excerpt from The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity, published by Zed Books June 2014. In this book, we try to better understand the way that the imagination animates movements for social change today. Based on that understanding, we want to reframe the purpose of social…
Our article on the project “Convoking the Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research, Dialogic Methodologies, and Scholarly Vocations” has been published by the journal Cultural Studies<=>Critical Methodologies. You can download a PDF here. Here is the abstract: This article reflects critically on “The Radial Imagination: A Research Project About Movements, Social Change, and the Future,” an…
Video of our presentation “Radicalizing Methods: ‘Convoking’ the Radical Imagination in Halifax,” presented at the 2011 North American Anarchist Studies Network meeting in Toronto.
