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…
We’re pleased to announce that Zed Books (London and New York) and Fernwood Publishing (Halifax and Winnipeg) has published our book The Radical Imagination: Social Movements Research in the Age of Austerity. Click here for more details and to order: http://radicalimagination.org/book Endorsements I deserted the academy for activism over 10 years ago, but this book reminds me that…
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…
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…
We have co-edited a special issue of the journal Affinities on the question What is the Radical Imagination?Here is the Table of Contents: Editorials/Introductions What is the radical imagination? A Special Issue Max Haiven, Alex Khasnabish Interventions: Struggles Precariousness, Catastrophe and Challenging the Blackmail of the Imagination Franco BIFO Berardi What is Radical Imagination? Indigenous…
