The Future Is Now

An Introduction to Prefigurative Politics

Eleonora Gea Piccardi, Laura Centemeri, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou , Francesca Forno (Università degli Studi di Trento)

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English

Bristol University Press
01 June 2022

Sociology; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Political activism

Series: Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century

With the rise of urban gardens, worker-owned coops, ecological communities, and occupied factories, we are witnessing the emergence of a new wave of social movements.

Bringing together an international group of scholars, this edited collection covers theory, empirical case studies and methodology to analyse the unique characteristics of these movements which differ greatly from their precedents. The contributors demonstrate what we can learn from these movements to rethink our economies and societies.

This is a comprehensive and timely resource which will illuminate how prefigurative politics can help us envision a post pandemic, fairer and more sustainable society.

Contributions by: Eleonora Gea Piccardi, Laura Centemeri, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Francesca Forno (Università degli Studi di Trento), Mikko Laamanen (Oslo Metropolitan University)
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781529215656
ISBN 10: 152921565X
Series: Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 01 June 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Lara Monticelli is Assistant Professor and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.

Reviews for The Future Is Now: An Introduction to Prefigurative Politics

Monticelli's fascinating anthology examines the notion of 'prefiguration' through the lenses of open marxism, ontological politics, critical management theory, deconstructive analysis, even ecofeminism. Yet the term as such, defies easy academic capture - even as an embodied prefigurative politics fires up inspiration and hope in people facing the everyday predations of a global patriarchal-capitalist-coloniality. Ariel Salleh, Global University for Sustainability