The third and final part constitutes a meta-reflection on the challenges and opportunities that researchers encounter while studying prefigurative politics. Among these, we find the long-lived intentional community of Auroville in India and the matristic Jineolojî eco-communes in Kurdish Rojava. The second part examines prefigurative politics “in practice” through case-studies and examples from social movements, civil society initiatives, and other alternative organizations. The first part of the book offers an historical, philosophical, and theoretical introduction to prefigurative politics. It begins with a Foreword by post-development scholar Arturo Escobar and closes with an Afterword by Davina Cooper, a leading researcher on transformative politics. Gathering a set of short and incisive contributions from prominent experts, this book is divided into three parts.
The idea for this collaborative project came from the realization that, despite the increasing popularity of the term across the Social Sciences, it is hard to find articles or books that, instead of taking its meaning for granted, aim explicitly at introducing, defining and discussing it. This edited volume aims to provide an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to the concept of prefigurative politics.
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