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Book review: Who controls the future now?

Book review: Who controls the future now? 1148243 ORG0010.1177/13505084221148243OrganizationBook Review book-review2022 Book Review Organization 1 –3 Who controls the future now? © The Author(s) 2023 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084221148243 DOI: 10.1177/13505084221148243 journals.sagepub.com/home/org The Future is Now: An Introduction to Prefigurative Politics. Lara Monticelli (ed.). Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2022. pp. 276. ISBN: 978-1529215656. New social orders I live close to Christiania, the self-proclaimed Copenhagen freetown that has sustained itself for 51 years and which is featured in The Future is Now as an exemplary empirical case of prefigura- tive politics in practice. Though I know the history and culture of Christiania, I never considered it to be a community established with a prefigurative intent. After reading the book, I know better. Lara Monticelli has edited a neat 241-page book that assembles cutting-edge contributions from 23 scholars. It is divided into three parts that sets the context for, describes the practices of, and present reflections on researching prefigurative politics. The afterword by Davina Cooper asks, among other things: “what is being prefigured?” (p. 230). In a sense, the foreword by Arturo Escobar is a reply: “throughout this volume’s chapters . . . prefigurative politics is amply shown to involve not only a struggle against both capitalism http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Organization SAGE

Book review: Who controls the future now?

Burø, Thomas
Organization , Volume 30 (5): 9 – Sep 1, 2023
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1148243 ORG0010.1177/13505084221148243OrganizationBook Review book-review2022 Book Review Organization 1 –3 Who controls the future now? © The Author(s) 2023 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084221148243 DOI: 10.1177/13505084221148243 journals.sagepub.com/home/org The Future is Now: An Introduction to Prefigurative Politics. Lara Monticelli (ed.). Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2022. pp. 276. ISBN: 978-1529215656. New social orders I live close to Christiania, the self-proclaimed Copenhagen freetown that has sustained itself for 51 years and which is featured in The Future is Now as an exemplary empirical case of prefigura- tive politics in practice. Though I know the history and culture of Christiania, I never considered it to be a community established with a prefigurative intent. After reading the book, I know better. Lara Monticelli has edited a neat 241-page book that assembles cutting-edge contributions from 23 scholars. It is divided into three parts that sets the context for, describes the practices of, and present reflections on researching prefigurative politics. The afterword by Davina Cooper asks, among other things: “what is being prefigured?” (p. 230). In a sense, the foreword by Arturo Escobar is a reply: “throughout this volume’s chapters . . . prefigurative politics is amply shown to involve not only a struggle against both capitalism

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