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The gloomy prospect of climate change and ecosystems' collapse calls for an urgent rethinking of all aspects of our life: how we work, produce, eat, spend, take care of each other, relate to nature, and organize our societies. Prefigurative initiatives are attracting a growing amount of attention from scholars and activists precisely because they are envisioning alternative futures by embodying radically different ways of living in the present. Thanks to the contribution of leading researchers, 'The Future is Now' represents the go-to book for anyone seeking a comprehensive, state-of-the-art, and thought-provoking introduction to the thriving field of prefigurative politics.The gloomy prospect of climate change and ecosystems' collapse calls for an urgent rethinking of all aspects of our life: how we work, produce, eat, spend, take care of each other, relate to nature, and organize our societies. Prefigurative initiatives are attracting a growing amount of attention from scholars and activists precisely because they are envisioning alternative futures by embodying radically different ways of living in the present. Thanks to the contribution of leading researchers, 'The Future is Now' represents the go-to book for anyone seeking a comprehensive, state-of-the-art, and thought-provoking introduction to the thriving field of prefigurative politics.

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  1. Front Cover
  2. pp. i-ii
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  1. Title page, Copyright, Dedication
  2. pp. iii-vi
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  1. Epigraph
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Table of contents
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. List of figures and tables
  2. p. xi
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  1. List of abbreviations
  2. p. xii
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  1. Notes on contributors
  2. pp. xiii-0xviii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xix-xxi
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  1. Foreword
  2. Arturo Escobar
  3. pp. xxii-xxx
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  1. Introduction
  2. Lara Monticelli
  3. pp. 1-12
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  1. Part I Contextualizing Prefigurative Politics
  2. pp. 13-14
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  1. 1 Prefigurative Politics Within, Despite and Beyond Contemporary Capitalism
  2. Lara Monticelli
  3. pp. 15-31
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  1. 2 Prefiguration: Between Anarchism and Marxism
  2. Paul Raekstad
  3. pp. 32-46
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  1. 3 Decolonizing Prefiguration: Ernst Bloch's Philosophy of Hope and the Multiversum
  2. Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
  3. pp. 47-64
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  1. 4 Rethinking Prefiguration: Between Radical Imagination and Imaginal Politics
  2. Aris Komporozos- Athanasiou and Chiara Bottici
  3. pp. 65-75
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  1. 5 Prefiguration and Emancipatory Critical Pedagogy: The Learning Side of Practice
  2. Antonia De Vita and Francesco Vittori
  3. pp. 76-90
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  1. Part II Prefigurative Politics in Practice
  1. 6 Prefiguration and the Futures of Work
  2. Ana Cecilia Dinerstein and Frederick Harry Pitts
  3. pp. 93-105
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  1. 7 Prefiguration and Utopia: The Auroville Experiment
  2. Suryamayi Aswini Clarence- Smith
  3. pp. 106-118
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  1. 8 Prefiguration in Everyday Practices: When the Mundane Becomes Political
  2. Francesca Forno and Stefan Wahlen
  3. pp. 119-129
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  1. 9 Prefiguration and Ecology: Understanding the Ontological Politics of Ecotopian Movements
  2. Laura Centemeri and Viviana Asara
  3. pp. 130-143
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  1. 10 The Paradox of the Commons: The Spatial Politics of Prefiguration in the Case of Christiania Freetown
  2. Jilly Traganou
  3. pp. 144-160
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  1. 11 Prefiguring Post-Patriarchal Futures: Jineoloj\xC3\xAE's Matristic Praxis in the Context of Rojava's Revolution
  2. Eleonora Gea Piccardi
  3. pp. 161-176
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  1. Part III Doing Research on Prefigurative Politics
  1. 12 The Concept of Prefigurative Politics in Studies of Social Movements: Progress and Caveats
  2. Luke Yates and Joost de Moor
  3. pp. 179-190
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  1. 13 Organizing Prefiguration
  2. Mikko Laamanen
  3. pp. 191-203
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  1. 14 Process-Time and Event-Time: The Multiple Temporalities of Prefiguration
  2. Marianne Maeckelbergh
  3. pp. 204-216
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  1. 15 Five Challenges for Prefiguration Research: A Sympathetic Polemic
  2. Erik Mygind du Plessis and Emil Husted
  3. pp. 217-229
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  1. Afterword
  2. Davina Cooper
  3. pp. 230-241
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 242-246
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  1. Back Cover
  2. p. 247
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