The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity

by Alex Khasnabish, Max Haiven, Doctor Alex Khasnabish

Book Overview

The idea of the imagination is as evocative as it is elusive. Not only does the imagination allow us to project ourselves beyond our own immediate space and time, it also allows us to envision the future, as individuals and as collectives. The radical imagination, then, is that spark of difference, desire and discontent that can be fanned into the flames of social change. Yet what precisely is the imagination and what might make it 'radical'? How...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780329016
• ISBN13: 9781780329017
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"