In advance of the Why the World Needs Anthropologists Conference (September 10-12, 2021), I was invited on to the Human Show Podcast to talk about my genesis as a researcher, social research, and social movements. […]
Tag: social movement research
CFP: Beyond the Echo Chamber – The Tactical Use of Social Media in Social Movements (new deadline!)
Call for Papers South Atlantic Quarterly 122 (4) “Beyond the Echo Chamber – The Tactical Use of Social Media in Social Movements” Editors: Alex Khasnabish, PhD, Associate Professor, Sociology & Anthropology, Mount Saint Vincent University, […]
How Can social & environmental justice movements build political power?
On December 10, 2020 I was invited to participate in a session of “Ask a Scientist Live” organized by XR Scientists to discuss the question of how social and environmental justice movements build political power. […]
Ecologies of the Radical Imagination
My new article “Ecologies of the Radical Imagination” has just been published online in Information, Communication & Society. See it here, the first 50 copies are free to read!
Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up?
Video in three parts from Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up?: Panel Discussion and Launch Event at Mount Saint Vincent University on October 11, 2017 featuring Michael Truscello, Catherine Martin, Jackie Barkley, Lynn Jones, El […]
What Moves Us: The Lives and Times of the Radical Imagination
It’s out! Max Haiven and I are pleased to announce the publication of What Moves Us: The Lives and Times of the Radical Imagination, a collected volume of powerful articles and interviews focusing on radical […]
Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up? Organizing the Twenty-first Century Resistance
TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword: Organising in the 21st Century by Affiong Limene Affiong Introduction: Why Don’t The Poor Rise Up? by Michael Truscello and Ajamu Nangwaya GLOBAL NORTH 1. Idle No More: Grounding the Corrientes […]
Political Cultures and Movements
On April 21 and 22, 2016 the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy hosted the 4th seminar in the Social Movements & Media Technologies series organized by the Centre for Global Media and Democracy (CGMD) […]
Outside but Along-Side
Take a look at a new article by me and Radical Imagination Project co-director Max Haiven about the possibilities, pitfalls, and promises of solidarity research with social movements and academic activism. Published in Social Justice […]
Against the Grain Radio: The Radical Imagination, Crisis, and Movements
Full audio of a feature-length interview I did with C.S. Soong of Against the Grain Radio on KPFA. We talked about capitalism, the myth of the middle class, the radical imagination, and building movements against […]
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