Hi Craig,
Prefigurative politics is one of the key domains of an anarchist praxis, where prior to the term being coined by Carl Boggs in the 1970s, anarchists had long been putting the idea of prefiguration into practice. Within contemporary geography this is a theme that has been picked up among those interested in the recent (re)turn to anarchism. I've employed this idea in some of my own work, but within the current anarchist geographies literature Anthony Ince's "In the shell of the old: Anarchist geographies of territorialisation" in Antipode is probably the most sustained treatment of how this idea can be taken up. See also Angela Wigger's "Anarchism as emancipatory theory and praxis: Implications for critical Marxist research" in Capital & Class and Nave Wald's "Anarchist Participatory Development: A Possible New Framework?" in Development and Change. Otherwise, there are lots of empirical examples of prefiguration coming out in the literature, where many of the chapters in the recent 'Anarchism, Geography and the Spirit of Revolt' trilogy demonstrate prefigurative politics in practice.
Cheers,
Simon
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