Chapter
Social movements in the age of austerity
Research as enclosure and as commons
Outline and preliminaries
Part one | Solidarity research
One | The methods of movements: academic crisis and activist strategy
Research, enclosure and academic capital
Social movement scholarship and the politics of knowledge production
Social movements, stories and ethnography
Convoking the radical imagination and the politics of prefiguration
Amidst the crisis maelstrom: research and the university
Two | Convoking the radical imagination
Context and practice: the Radical Imagination Project in Halifax
Diagram of the Radical Imagination Project
Convocation and the research horizon
Part two | Dwelling in the hiatus
Three | The crisis of reproduction
Crisis theory and social reproduction
The death and afterlife of the middle class
The crisis of movement reproduction
Four | Reimagining success and failure
The Greimas square of success and failure
Social movements and the hiatus between (not-)success and (not-)failure
The expanded square of social movements
Solidarity research: dwelling in the hiatus
The expanded movement research square
Conclusion: beyond the middle-class imaginary
Part three | Making space, making time
Five | The life and times of radical movements
The co-optation of radicalism in the anglophone North Atlantic
The rise and fall of the New Left
The times of movement reproduction
Six | The temporalities of oppression
Reproducing otherwise: beyond oppression and exploitation
Part four | The methods of movements
Seven | Imagination, strategy and tactics
From ontology to epistemology to methods to ethics
Radicalizing the research imagination
The expanded model of the research imagination
Opening time for the imagination
From imagination to strategy to tactics (and back)
Implications: ‘diversity of tactics’ as symptom
Eight | Towards a prefigurative methodology
The Radical Imagination
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