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…
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’re very please that our academic article “Outside but Along-Side: Stumbling with Social Movements as Academic Activists” has been published in a special issue of the open-access journal Studies in Social Justice, the first of two dedicated to the “Scholar-Activist Terrain in Canada and Ireland.” Here’s the abstract: In this article, we critically reflect on…
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…
Radical Imagination Project co-director Alex Khasnabish speaks about the project, his research and the fate of the radical imagination in this feature-length interview on KPFA Berkeley’s fabulous program Against the Grain with host C.S. Soong. http://www.againstthegrain.org/program/1072/tues-10615-radical-imagination Listen here:
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: http://roarmag.org/2014/07/fomenting-the-radical-imagination-with-social-movements/ The dual crisis of movements and the university require activists and researchers to apply the radical imagination and foment it as a collective practice. By Max Haiven and Alex Khasnabish Our book, The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity (Zed Books, 2014), is a set of reflections on an experiment….
