Liveable Futures

Radical Imagination as Method // Radical Imagination as Survival

Authors

  • Ardath Whynacht Mount Allison University image/svg+xml
  • Erin Fredericks Saint Thomas University
  • Alex Khasnabish Mount Saint Vincent University image/svg+xml

Author Biographies

  • Ardath Whynacht, Mount Allison University

    Ardath Whynacht is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Mount Allison University. Her work explores connections between mental health & wellbeing, violence and movements for social transformation. She has published work on transformative justice approaches to family violence and mass casualties and she works regularly with frontline anti-violence organizations. You can read more about her work at: www.ourpublicsafety.ca.

  • Erin Fredericks, Saint Thomas University

    Erin Fredericks is an Associate Professor of Sociology at St. Thomas University. Her research examines the gendered nature of health and wellness and aims to work with communities to generate new approaches to health promotion for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth. Erin was a founding Chair of Imprint Youth Association, is a past board member of Fredericton Pride, and is currently on the boards of the Canandian Mental Health Association of New Brunswick and the New Brunswick Health Research Foundation. She also provides 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusion training for New Brunswick health care and non-profit organizations. You can read more about her work at: www.imaginingfutures.ca. 

  • Alex Khasnabish, Mount Saint Vincent University

    Alex Khasnabish is a Professor of Anthropology at Mount Saint Vincent University. His research focuses on social movements, social change, and radical politics. He writes books, articles, and essays and is regularly featured on a range of other media. For more information, go to: alexkhasnabish.com.

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Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. University of Minnesota Press.

Bakhtin, Mikhail. 1981. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. University of Texas Press.

Bloch, Ernst. 1986. The Principle of Hope. Vol. 1. MIT Press.

Castoriadis, Cornelius. 1997. World in Fragments: Writings on Politics, Society, Psychoanalysis, and the Imagination. Edited by David Ames Curtis. Meridian. Stanford University Press.

Graeber, David, and David Wengrow. 2021. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. Signal.

Haiven, Max, and Alex Khasnabish. 2014. The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity. Zed Books/Fernwood Pub.

Kelley, Robin. 2002. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. Beacon Press.

Taylor, Charles. 2004. Modern Social Imaginaries. Public Planet Books. Duke University Press.

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Published

2025-12-03

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Vol. 46 No. 3 (2025): Liveable Futures: Radical Imagination as Method // Radical Imagination as Survival

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Liveable Futures: Radical Imagination as Method // Radical Imagination as Survival

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