The 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 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