Max Haiven is an assistant professor in the Division of Art History and Critical Studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and co-director of the Radical Imagination Project (radicalimagination.org). He is author of Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power: Capitalism, Creativity and the Commons (Zed Books, 2014) and Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life. More information can be found at maxhaiven.com. Alex Khasnabish is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at Mount Saint Vincent University and co-director of the Radical Imagination Project (radicalimagination.org). He is the author of Zapatistas: Rebellion from the Grassroots to the Global (Zed Books, 2010) and Zapatismo beyond Borders, and co-editor (with Jeffrey Juris) of Insurgent Encounters: Transnational Activism, Ethnography, and the Political. More information can be found at alexkhasnabish.com.
Introduction: The Importance of the Radical Imagination in Dark Times
Part I: Solidarity Research
1. The Methods of Movements: Academic Crisis and Activist Strategy
2. Convoking the Radical Imagination
Part II: Dwelling in the Hiatus
3. The Crisis of Reproduction
4. Reimagining Success and Failure
Part III: Making Space, Making Time
5. The Life and Times of Radical Movements
6. The Temporalities of Oppression
Part IV: The Methods of Movements
7. Imagination, Strategy and Tactics
8. Towards a Prefigurative Methodology