The Future Is Now: An Introduction to Prefigurative Politics
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-1566-3 (ISBN)
Prefigurative initiatives are attracting a growing amount of attention from scholars and activists precisely because they are envisioning alternative futures by embodying radically different ways of living in the present.
Thanks to the contribution of leading researchers, 'The Future is Now' represents the go-to book for anyone seeking a comprehensive, state-of-the-art, and thought-provoking introduction to the thriving field of prefigurative politics.
Lara Monticelli is Assistant Professor and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.
Foreword by Arturo Escobar
Introduction by Lara Monticelli
Part I: Contextualizing Prefigurative Politics
1. Prefigurative Politics Within, Despite and Beyond Contemporary Capitalism - Lara Monticelli
2. Prefiguration: Between Anarchism and Marxism - Paul Raekstad
3. Decolonizing Prefiguration: Ernst Bloch’s Philosophy of Hope and the Multiversum - Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
4. Rethinking Prefiguration: Between Radical Imagination and Imaginal Politics - Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and Chiara Bottici
5. Prefiguration and Emancipatory Critical Pedagogy: The Learning Side of Practice - Antonia De Vita and Francesco Vittori
Part II: Prefigurative Politics in Practice
6. Prefiguration and the Futures of Work - Ana Cecilia Dinerstein and Frederick Harry Pitts
7. Prefiguration and Utopia: The Auroville Experiment - Suryamayi Aswini Clarence-Smith
8. Prefiguration in Everyday Practices: When the Mundane Becomes Political - Francesca Forno and Stefan Wahlen
9. Prefiguration and Ecology: Understanding the Ontological Politics of Ecotopian Movements - Laura Centemeri and Viviana Asara
10. The Paradox of the Commons: The Spatial Politics of Prefiguration in the Case of Christiania Freetown - Jilly Traganou
11. Prefiguring Post-Patriarchal Futures: Jineolojî’s Matristic Praxis in the Context of Rojava’s Revolution - Eleonora Gea Piccardi
Part III: Doing Research on Prefigurative Politics
12. The Concept of Prefigurative Politics in Studies of Social Movements: Progress and Caveats - Luke Yates and Joost de Moor
13. Organizing Prefiguration - Mikko Laamanen
14. Process-Time and Event-Time: The Multiple Temporalities of Prefiguration - Marianne Maeckelbergh
15. Five Challenges for Prefiguration Research: A Sympathetic Polemic - Erik Mygind du Plessis and Emil Husted
Afterword by Davina Cooper
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.01.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century |
| Co-Autor | Eleonora Gea Piccardi, Laura Centemeri, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Francesca Forno, Mikko Laamanen |
| Zusatzinfo | 3 Tables, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5292-1566-8 / 1529215668 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5292-1566-3 / 9781529215663 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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