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 movements
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!
RadioActive: Finding Hope and the Radical Imagination in Dark Times
Max Haiven and I spoke with Natalie Kivell on RadioActive (WVUM) about the radical imagination, social movements, and finding hope in dark times. Check out the audio recording of our full length interview.
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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