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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822015303321

Autore

Haiven Max <1981->

Titolo

The radical Imagination : social movement research in the age of austerity / / Max Haiven and Alex Khasnabish

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2014

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021

ISBN

1-350-22346-8

1-78032-904-0

1-78032-903-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

320.5

Soggetti

Social movements - Research

Radicalism

Creative thinking

Political science & theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-266) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. The importance of the radical imagination in dark times -- Part I. Solidarity research. The methods of movements : academic crisis and activist strategy -- Convoking the radical imagination -- Part II. Dwelling in the hiatus. The crisis of reproduction -- Reimagining success and failure -- Part III. Making space, making time. The life and times of radical movements -- The temporalities of oppression -- Part IV. The methods of movements. Imagination, strategy and tactics -- Towards a prefigurative methodology.

Sommario/riassunto

An essential examination of how we might envisage and envoke the future of radical politics and social change.