Convoking the Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research, Dialogic Methodologies and Scholarly Vocations
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2012
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Khasnabish, Alex
Haiven, Max
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This article reflects critically on “The Radial Imagination: A Research Project About Movements, Social Change, and
the Future,” an engaged social movement research project conducted with self-identified “radical” activists in Halifax,
Nova Scotia, Canada. In so doing, the authors explore a research strategy that seeks not merely to observe the radical
imagination—the ability to envision and work toward better futures—but to convoke it: to mobilize the singular location of
academic inquiry to create a research environment within which the radical imagination can be better understood. Through
a critical examination of the project’s theoretical architecture and methodological framework the authors investigate the
promises, possibilities, and difficulties implicated in critical social movement research carried out through a strategy of
convocation, contrasting it with more conventional approaches to social movement research.
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Khasnabish, A., & Haiven, M. (October 01, 2012). Convoking the radical imagination: Social movement research, dialogic methodologies, and scholarly vocations. Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies, 12, 5, 408-421.