Many of us wonder what we could possibly do to end oppression, exploitation, and injustice.
People have studied revolutions and protest movements for centuries, but few have focused …

Over the past thirty-five years the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST), one of the
largest social movements in Latin America, has become famous globally for its success in …

The purpose of this article is to elaborate on the concept of prefiguration by outlining the
necessity of its contribution to a progressive public philosophy for the 2020s. In the …

Fidelity to the facts in political theory is often associated with a conservative slant, or at least
a tendency to prefer incremental reformism to radicalism. Political realism—both in its …

Prefigurative politics, the idea of 'building the new world in the shell of the old', increasingly
forms part of the common sense of radical social and political movements but deserves more …

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in prefigurative politics, which refers to the
political strategies that model a future society on a micro level and aim to instantiate radical …

Radical realism is distinguished in part from other forms of political realism by its more
explicit anti‐status quo objectives. In particular, radical realists generally reject the …

Prefigurative politics—the enactment of desired future social relations in present social
change practices—has become central in contemporary political organising. Protest …

In a time of great gloom and doom internationally and of major global problems, this book
offers an invaluable contribution to our understanding of alternative societies that could be …

Most democratic theories recognize that democracy requires widespread adherence to both
formal and informal norms that constrain the use of power and structure relationships among …