We’re excited to announce a new round of movement-based research and we want to invite you to take part. For the Long Haul: Social Movement Research and Popular Education Initiative This is a research project about social justice, social change, and the radical imagination. How can we sustain activism and social movements over the long…
How we think about the world and our place in it matters. Social change and social justice aren’t just about social movements and collective action, they’re also about ideas – why society is the way it is, who benefits and who pays, how the world might be different, how we might get there. In this workshop we’ll take a tour through some key concepts advanced by radical political thinkers (alienation, exploitation, hegemony, liberation, oppression, revolution) and consider them in relation to actual struggles for radical social change and social justice to see if and how they “work” in the world.
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…
Application Deadline Extended! The Radical Imagination Project is Hiring! The Radical Imagination Project is a socially-engaged research initiative, based at Mount Saint Vincent University and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, dedicated to celebrating and enlivening radical ideas and practices in Halifax. We work collaboratively with social movements, conduct grounded participatory research, organize…
Original: http://philosophersforchange.org/2014/09/30/taking-notes-40-the-radical-imagination-materials-for-struggle/ We wrote The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity in order to bring clarity and sharpness to the idea of the radical imagination as it operates in and animates social movements in a time of crisis. If ever there has been a time for a careful examination of what the…
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…
This piece, published in Interface: a journal for and about social movements (vol. 5, issue 2, pp. 472 – 498, November 2013) (http://www.interfacejournal.net) focuses on the question of success and failure in social movements and social movement research. To read the article, click here: http://www.interfacejournal.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Interface-5-2-Haiven-and-Khasnabish.pdf From the introduction: In 2010, we won a grant to…
