In September 2014 I was invited down to Boston, MA by the good folks at Boston University and the University of Massachusetts to talk about the radical imagination, engaged research, and resistance in time of austerity. Listen to the audio recording of “Social Resistance in Times of Austerity,” a panel discussion featuring me and Kostis Kornetis and recorded at Boston University by WBUR.
September 19
5-6:30 pm
Panel I: Building Radical Community
Chris Dixon: “For the Long Haul: Care, Intention, and Steadiness in Radical Organizing”
El Jones: “Making Revolution Irresistible: Is Art Radical?”
Sherry Pictou: “Indigenous Struggles over Natural Resources and Alliance Building”
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7 pm
Triple Book Launch
Chris Dixon’s Another Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transformative Movements
Max Haiven and Alex Khasnabish’s The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity
El Jones’ Live from the Afrikan Resistance!
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September 20
11am-12:30
Panel II: Radicalism Beyond Privilege
Alexis Shotwell: “‘Interdependence Means Fight’: Queer Disability Lessons on how to Live in Unbearable Times”
Andrea Smith: “Igniting a Radical Mothering Movement”
Ardath Whynacht: “Against Autonomy: Thoughts on Mad Pride, Youth-led Movements and Activist Neoliberalism”
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12:30
Lunch & Activist Information Exchange
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2-3:30 pm
Panel III: Learning from Struggle
John Munro: “Imagining a World without Empire: Some Lessons from the Twentieth Century”
Isaac Saney: “Lessons from Cuba: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality & Revolution”
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Check out these three excepts from Max Haiven’s and my new book The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity:
Lessons from Social Movements: Six Notes on the Radical Imagination
My article “Subterranean Currents: Research and the Radical imagination in the Age of Austerity” has just been published in Studies in Social Justice, part of an excellent issue based on a workshop about social movements and social movement research held at the University of Windsor last spring (at the, sadly and predictably, now-defunct Centre for Studies in Social Justice). My article is about our work in The Radical Imagination Project, solidarity research with social movements, and continuities of struggle. Check it out and see the rest of the issue here.
My extended review of Janet Roitman’s book Anti-Crisis. Find it in Anthropological Quarterly or see it here.
