Alex Khasnabish
Biographic Data
| ID | 112808 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Khasnabish |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Khasnabish |
| SIGNATURE | KHASNABISH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Saint Vincent University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction: No Echo Chambers, No Filter Bubbles: The Tactical Use of Social Media in Social Movements
Ecologies of the radical imagination
Grievances and an urgent awareness of the need for social change are necessary but insufficient catalysts for the formation of powerful and robust social movements. While this realization has led observers of social movements to attend to a wide variety of structural and subjective factors, in the alchemy of radical social change and the grassroots collective action that fuels it one of the most important yet under considered elements is the radi…
Protest
Anthropologists have long been interested in exploring protest as a phenomenon rich in social, cultural, and political meaning. Distinguished by its cross‐cultural focus and ethnographic sensibility, anthropological research on protest movements has been grounded in people's lived realities rather than in the search for universalist laws or explanatory paradigms. Anthropologists have been at the forefront of “cultural–political” approaches to pro…
Outside but Along-Side: Stumbling with Social Movements as Academic Activists
In this article, we critically reflect on the production and measurement of ‘success’ and ‘failure’ both in social movements and social movement research. We do so by focusing on the Radical Imagination Project, an experiment in politically engaged, ethnographically grounded social movement research we have sustained in Halifax, Nova Scotia since 2010. We discuss our methodological strategy of ‘convocation,’ distinguishing it from other social mo…
The radical imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity
Race, Racism and Development places racism and constructions of race at the centre of an exploration of the dominant discourses, structures and practices of development. Combining insights from postcolonial and race critical theory with a political economy framework, it puts forward provocative theoretical analyses of the relationships between development, race, capital, embodiment and resistance in historical and contemporary contexts. Exposing …
Direct Action, Deliberation, and Diffusion
Subterranean Currents: Research and the Radical Imagination in the Age of Austerity
Against a backdrop of austerity, securitization, and the rampant enclosure of public spaces and democratic processes including the university and scholarship, this article critically explores what prefigurative engaged research – research capable of not simply documenting what is but contributing to struggles for social justice and social change – might look like, what it can contribute, and what its limitations are. Beyond familiar calls for a “…
Anti-Crisis by Janet Roitman
Reviewed by: Anti-Crisis by Janet Roitman Alex Khasnabish Janet Roitman, Anti-Crisis. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. 176pp. We live in a world seemingly awash in crisis. From the Great Collapse of global financial markets in 2007–2008 to spiraling climate catastrophe to crumbling social infrastructure and ever-diminished horizons for those coming of age today, crisis appears omnipresent. But what does it mean to proclaim "crisis," and what …
Conclusion: The Possibilities, Limits, and Relevance of Engaged Ethnography
Tracing the Zapatista Rhizome, or, the Ethnography of a Transnationalized Political Imagination
Insurgent Encounters: Transnational Activism, Ethnography, and the Political
Ethnography and activism within networked spaces of transnational encounter / Jeffrey S. Juris and Alex Khasnabish -- Spaces of intentionality: race, class, and horizontality at the United States social forum / Jeffrey S. Juris -- Tracing the Zapatista rhizome, or, the ethnography of a transnationalized political imagination / Alex Khasnabish -- The possibilities and perils for scholar-activists and activist-scholars: reflections on the "feminist…
Convoking the Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research, Dialogic Methodologies, and Scholarly Vocations
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 mobili…
Zapatistas: Rebellion from the Grassroots to the Global
In the early hours of January 1, 1994 a guerrilla army of indigenous Mayan peasants emerged from the highlands and jungle in the far southeast of Mexico and declared "¡Ya basta!" - "Enough!" - to 500 years of colonialism, racism, exploitation, oppression, and genocide. As elites in Canada, the United States, and Mexico celebrated the coming into force of the North American Free Trade Agreement the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Z…
A Tear in the Fabric of the Present
Everyone is dreaming in this country. Now it is time to wake up . . . Th e storm is here. From the clash of these two winds a storm will be born. Its time has arrived
Zapatismo Beyond Borders: New Imaginations of Political Possibility
They Are Our Brothers and Sisters: Why Zapatismo Matters to Independent Labour in Mexico
On January 1, 1994 an indigenous army of some 3000 Mayan peasants emerged from jungles and canyons of southernmost Mexican state of Chiapas and declared war on federal executive and Mexican army. On New Year's Day 1994, an insurgent guerrilla army calling itself Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) made its existence publicly known by seizing several towns in highlands of Chiapas including colonial city of San Cristobal de las Casas and d…
"Zones of Conflict": Exploring the Ethics of Anthropology in Dangerous Spaces
In recent years, anthropologists have become increasingly involved in work surrounding issues of human rights, democracy, social justice, and conflict. In doing so, ethical questions concerning the authority, obligations, and, most broadly, the role of anthropologists working in areas and with populations experiencing circumstances of violence, suffering, and oppression have come to the fore. The central theme of this paper is to engage the ethic…
Moments of Coincidence: Exploring the Intersection of Zapatismo and Independent Labour in Mexico
This article is an examination of what I have termed the 'moment of coincidence' between the Zapatista movement and elements of the independent labour movement in Mexico. While the indigenous guerrillas of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation have remained militarily confined to isolated areas of the Mexican state of Chiapas since their uprising in January of 1994, Zapatismo has extended far beyond the boundaries of the state. In this articl…
Insurgent Encounters: Transnational Activism, Ethnography, and the Political
Ethnography and activism within networked spaces of transnational encounter / Jeffrey S. Juris and Alex Khasnabish -- Spaces of intentionality: race, class, and horizontality at the United States social forum / Jeffrey S. Juris -- Tracing the Zapatista rhizome, or, the ethnography of a transnationalized political imagination / Alex Khasnabish -- The possibilities and perils for scholar-activists and activist-scholars: reflections on the "feminist…
Zapatistas: Rebellion from the Grassroots to the Global
In the early hours of January 1, 1994 a guerrilla army of indigenous Mayan peasants emerged from the highlands and jungle in the far southeast of Mexico and declared "¡Ya basta!" - "Enough!" - to 500 years of colonialism, racism, exploitation, oppression, and genocide. As elites in Canada, the United States, and Mexico celebrated the coming into force of the North American Free Trade Agreement the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Z…
Convoking the Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research, Dialogic Methodologies, and Scholarly Vocations
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 mobili…
Outside but Along-Side: Stumbling with Social Movements as Academic Activists
In this article, we critically reflect on the production and measurement of ‘success’ and ‘failure’ both in social movements and social movement research. We do so by focusing on the Radical Imagination Project, an experiment in politically engaged, ethnographically grounded social movement research we have sustained in Halifax, Nova Scotia since 2010. We discuss our methodological strategy of ‘convocation,’ distinguishing it from other social mo…
Anti-Crisis by Janet Roitman
Reviewed by: Anti-Crisis by Janet Roitman Alex Khasnabish Janet Roitman, Anti-Crisis. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. 176pp. We live in a world seemingly awash in crisis. From the Great Collapse of global financial markets in 2007–2008 to spiraling climate catastrophe to crumbling social infrastructure and ever-diminished horizons for those coming of age today, crisis appears omnipresent. But what does it mean to proclaim "crisis," and what …
Moments of Coincidence: Exploring the Intersection of Zapatismo and Independent Labour in Mexico
This article is an examination of what I have termed the 'moment of coincidence' between the Zapatista movement and elements of the independent labour movement in Mexico. While the indigenous guerrillas of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation have remained militarily confined to isolated areas of the Mexican state of Chiapas since their uprising in January of 1994, Zapatismo has extended far beyond the boundaries of the state. In this articl…
They Are Our Brothers and Sisters: Why Zapatismo Matters to Independent Labour in Mexico
On January 1, 1994 an indigenous army of some 3000 Mayan peasants emerged from jungles and canyons of southernmost Mexican state of Chiapas and declared war on federal executive and Mexican army. On New Year's Day 1994, an insurgent guerrilla army calling itself Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) made its existence publicly known by seizing several towns in highlands of Chiapas including colonial city of San Cristobal de las Casas and d…
"Zones of Conflict": Exploring the Ethics of Anthropology in Dangerous Spaces
In recent years, anthropologists have become increasingly involved in work surrounding issues of human rights, democracy, social justice, and conflict. In doing so, ethical questions concerning the authority, obligations, and, most broadly, the role of anthropologists working in areas and with populations experiencing circumstances of violence, suffering, and oppression have come to the fore. The central theme of this paper is to engage the ethic…
Moments of Coincidence: Exploring the Intersection of Zapatismo and Independent Labour in Mexico
This article is an examination of what I have termed the 'moment of coincidence' between the Zapatista movement and elements of the independent labour movement in Mexico. While the indigenous guerrillas of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation have remained militarily confined to isolated areas of the Mexican state of Chiapas since their uprising in January of 1994, Zapatismo has extended far beyond the boundaries of the state. In this articl…
They Are Our Brothers and Sisters: Why Zapatismo Matters to Independent Labour in Mexico
On January 1, 1994 an indigenous army of some 3000 Mayan peasants emerged from jungles and canyons of southernmost Mexican state of Chiapas and declared war on federal executive and Mexican army. On New Year's Day 1994, an insurgent guerrilla army calling itself Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) made its existence publicly known by seizing several towns in highlands of Chiapas including colonial city of San Cristobal de las Casas and d…
Zapatismo Beyond Borders: New Imaginations of Political Possibility
A Tear in the Fabric of the Present
Everyone is dreaming in this country. Now it is time to wake up . . . Th e storm is here. From the clash of these two winds a storm will be born. Its time has arrived
Zapatistas: Rebellion from the Grassroots to the Global
In the early hours of January 1, 1994 a guerrilla army of indigenous Mayan peasants emerged from the highlands and jungle in the far southeast of Mexico and declared "¡Ya basta!" - "Enough!" - to 500 years of colonialism, racism, exploitation, oppression, and genocide. As elites in Canada, the United States, and Mexico celebrated the coming into force of the North American Free Trade Agreement the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Z…
Convoking the Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research, Dialogic Methodologies, and Scholarly Vocations
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 mobili…
Conclusion: The Possibilities, Limits, and Relevance of Engaged Ethnography
Tracing the Zapatista Rhizome, or, the Ethnography of a Transnationalized Political Imagination
Insurgent Encounters: Transnational Activism, Ethnography, and the Political
Ethnography and activism within networked spaces of transnational encounter / Jeffrey S. Juris and Alex Khasnabish -- Spaces of intentionality: race, class, and horizontality at the United States social forum / Jeffrey S. Juris -- Tracing the Zapatista rhizome, or, the ethnography of a transnationalized political imagination / Alex Khasnabish -- The possibilities and perils for scholar-activists and activist-scholars: reflections on the "feminist…
The radical imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity
Race, Racism and Development places racism and constructions of race at the centre of an exploration of the dominant discourses, structures and practices of development. Combining insights from postcolonial and race critical theory with a political economy framework, it puts forward provocative theoretical analyses of the relationships between development, race, capital, embodiment and resistance in historical and contemporary contexts. Exposing …
Direct Action, Deliberation, and Diffusion
Subterranean Currents: Research and the Radical Imagination in the Age of Austerity
Against a backdrop of austerity, securitization, and the rampant enclosure of public spaces and democratic processes including the university and scholarship, this article critically explores what prefigurative engaged research – research capable of not simply documenting what is but contributing to struggles for social justice and social change – might look like, what it can contribute, and what its limitations are. Beyond familiar calls for a “…
Anti-Crisis by Janet Roitman
Reviewed by: Anti-Crisis by Janet Roitman Alex Khasnabish Janet Roitman, Anti-Crisis. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. 176pp. We live in a world seemingly awash in crisis. From the Great Collapse of global financial markets in 2007–2008 to spiraling climate catastrophe to crumbling social infrastructure and ever-diminished horizons for those coming of age today, crisis appears omnipresent. But what does it mean to proclaim "crisis," and what …
Outside but Along-Side: Stumbling with Social Movements as Academic Activists
In this article, we critically reflect on the production and measurement of ‘success’ and ‘failure’ both in social movements and social movement research. We do so by focusing on the Radical Imagination Project, an experiment in politically engaged, ethnographically grounded social movement research we have sustained in Halifax, Nova Scotia since 2010. We discuss our methodological strategy of ‘convocation,’ distinguishing it from other social mo…
Protest
Anthropologists have long been interested in exploring protest as a phenomenon rich in social, cultural, and political meaning. Distinguished by its cross‐cultural focus and ethnographic sensibility, anthropological research on protest movements has been grounded in people's lived realities rather than in the search for universalist laws or explanatory paradigms. Anthropologists have been at the forefront of “cultural–political” approaches to pro…
Ecologies of the radical imagination
Grievances and an urgent awareness of the need for social change are necessary but insufficient catalysts for the formation of powerful and robust social movements. While this realization has led observers of social movements to attend to a wide variety of structural and subjective factors, in the alchemy of radical social change and the grassroots collective action that fuels it one of the most important yet under considered elements is the radi…
Introduction: No Echo Chambers, No Filter Bubbles: The Tactical Use of Social Media in Social Movements
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (7 works) · Social movement (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Political theory and Gramsci (4 works)