Imagination - A Manifesto

A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. Princeton professor Ruha Benjamin believes in the liberating power of the imagination. Deadly systems shaped by mass incarceration, ableism, digital surveillance and eugenics emerged from the human imagination but they have real-world impacts. To fight these systems and create a world that works for all of us, we will have to imagine things differently. As Benjamin shows, educators, artists, technologists and more are experimenting with new ways of thinking and tackling seemingly intractable problems. Drawing from the work of these visionaries-including Black feminists, climate activists, Afrofuturists and troublemakers of all sorts-Imagination: A Manifesto explores the possibility and practices required to imagine and create more just and habitable worlds.

About the author

Ruha Benjamin is a professor of African American studies and the founder of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab at Princeton University, and a MacArthur Fellow. The author of the Stowe Prize–winning Viral Justice, as well as Race After Technology and People’s Science, Benjamin lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Summary

Imagination isn’t a luxury; it’s a vital resource and a powerful tool for our collective liberation

Product details

• Authors: Ruha Benjamin, Ruha (Princeton University) Benjamin, Benjamin Ruha
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.2024
• EAN: 9781324020974
• ISBN: 978-1-324-02097-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 221 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 339 g
• Illustrations: 7 illustrations
• Series: A Norton Short
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Capitalism, Social discrimination & inequality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, Social discrimination and social justice