The Radical Imagination Project and Fernwood Publishing are pleased to host the launch of independent journalist Miles Howe’s new book Debriefing Elsipogtog: The Anatomy of a Struggle.
Original: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/25411-lessons-from-social-movements-six-notes-on-the-radical-imagination As the crisis of austerity deepens, forcing workers and the public to swallow the costs of the global financial meltdown, the need for the radical imagination is more urgent than ever. But what is it, actually? How can we understand the radical imagination as more than a hollow slogan? How can it be a…
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…
7:30pm, Thursday April 7 2011 Venue: The Bus Stop Theatre Address: 2203 Gottingen St. Cost: Free Crisis. Bailout. Austerity. The political situation today has led many to ask if the system is fundamentally broken. Do we need to imagine a society beyond capitalism, for Nova Scotia and the World? While many would like to see a…
