Max Haiven is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Art and Public Policy at New York University, USA, and teaches at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. His research focuses on the fate of the imagination under contemporary forms of capitalism. His work on the imaginative dimensions of finance and the broader social trend towards 'financialization' has appeared in leading journals including Social Text, Cultural Studies, and Mediations. He is guest editor of a special issue of the journal TOPIA on 'The Financialized Imagination and Beyond'. His work on the radical imagination and social movements has appeared in journals including Cultural Critique, Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies, and The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies.
Alex Khasnabish is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, NS, Canada. His work focuses on the radical imagination, contemporary social movements, globalization, and anti-capitalist/anarchistic social justice struggles. He is a founding member of Anthropologists for Justice and Peace, an adjunct scholar with the Globalization and Autonomy Project, and co-director of the SSHRC-funded Radical Imagination Project. He is the author of Zapatistas: Rebellion from the Grassroots to the Global (Zed Press), Zapatismo Beyond Borders: New Imaginations of Political Possibility (University of Toronto Press), co-editor of and contributor to Insurgent Encounters: Transnational Activism, Ethnography, and the Political (Duke University Press, forthcoming), a contributor to numerous edited volumes, and his work has also appeared in Affinities, AmeriQuests, Anthropologica, Critique of Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology Hot Spots, Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies, Ephemera, Journal for the Study of Radicalism, and Upping the Anti.
