Future Is Now: An Introduction to Prefigurative Politics

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

• Foreword by Arturo EscobarIntroduction by Lara MonticelliPart I: Contextualizing Prefigurative Politics1. Prefigurative Politics Within, Despite and Beyond Contemporary Capitalism - Lara Monticelli2. Prefiguration: Between Anarchism and Marxism - Paul Raekstad3. Decolonizing Prefiguration: Ernst Bloch’s Philosophy of Hope and the Multiversum - Ana Cecilia Dinerstein4. Rethinking Prefiguration: Between Radical Imagination and Imaginal Politics - Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and Chiara Bottici5. Prefiguration and Emancipatory Critical Pedagogy: The Learning Side of Practice - Antonia De Vita and Francesco VittoriPart II: Prefigurative Politics in Practice6. Prefiguration and the Futures of Work - Ana Cecilia Dinerstein and Frederick Harry Pitts7. Prefiguration and Utopia: The Auroville Experiment - Suryamayi Aswini Clarence-Smith8. Prefiguration in Everyday Practices: When the Mundane Becomes Political - Francesca Forno and Stefan Wahlen9. Prefiguration and Ecology: Understanding the Ontological Politics of Ecotopian Movements - Laura Centemeri and Viviana Asara10. The Paradox of the Commons: The Spatial Politics of Prefiguration in the Case of Christiania Freetown - Jilly Traganou11. Prefiguring Post-Patriarchal Futures: Jineolojî’s Matristic Praxis in the Context of Rojava’s Revolution - Eleonora Gea PiccardiPart III: Doing Research on Prefigurative Politics12. The Concept of Prefigurative Politics in Studies of Social Movements: Progress and Caveats - Luke Yates and Joost de Moor13. Organizing Prefiguration - Mikko Laamanen14. Process-Time and Event-Time: The Multiple Temporalities of Prefiguration - Marianne Maeckelbergh15. Five Challenges for Prefiguration Research: A Sympathetic Polemic - Erik Mygind du Plessis and Emil HustedAfterword by Davina Cooper

“As the world searches for pathways out of multiple global crises, lessons from grounded alternatives are crucial to prefiguring pluriversal transformations. By providing experiences from a wide range of situations around the world, this book is a valuable addition to literature emerging from people's movements, as well as contributing to those movements.” Ashish Kothari, Kalpavriksh and Global Tapestry of Alternatives