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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Social Imaginaries"”.
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Toward Engaging the Secular: Charles Taylor's Modern Social Imaginaries, Human Flourishing, and Theological Method
… from Charles Taylor's articulation of modern social imaginaries and the accompanying theses of secularity. This study shows how, in Taylor's view, secularists have derived their self-understanding and ethos of economic human flourishing by way of continual shifts and interactions in …
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Feeling Time Differently: Autistic Temporality, Self-Care Technologies & Social Imaginaries of the Good Life
… perspective, framing challenges in social communication, perspective-taking, and emotional comprehension as impairments in Theory of Mind. This narrative reinforces autistic people’s mental health struggles, as prevailing accounts of social difficulties frequently overshadow the …
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Dis/locating audience : transnational media flows and the online circulation of East Asian television drama
… from the "homeland," creating deterritorialized social imaginaries that transcend national boundaries. In examining the flourishing online fandom around the circulation of East Asian television drama, however, the established models of transnational media audiences prove insufficient. With the …
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Time Machines: technology, temporality, and the Victorian social imaginary
… the temporal dimension of three Victorian social imaginaries and their technological performance: railways and the establishment of a uniform national time; newspapers and the public sphere; and Bank of England paper notes and the integration of a national economy. It argues that in all …
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Harnessing alternative post-growth development pathways in Northampton: learning from innovative green information systems in Bristol and China
… the circulation and legitimation of alternatives social imaginaries and modes of living which are not relying on the globalized fossil-fuel dependent economy. How to create a transformative dynamic able to embark the majority in those alternatives in a way that would challenge the hegemonic social …
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Animal-machine
… but are co-constituted with each other and human social orders. Rather than choose between a materialism before language or a radical linguisticism that reduces the world to a narrow understanding of human meaning, I outline a general rhetoricity which sees human discourse as just one subset of an …
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Imagined Contested Spaces: The Imaging of the Patagonian Region (1840-1881)
… has a strong influence on the construction of social imaginaries, this study explores how textual images in The (London) Times and The New York Times shaped public opinion about Patagonia and Patagonians and how those images relate to the United States and British national and international …
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Making Victims: History, Memory, and Literature In Japan's Post-War Social Imaginary
… between pre and post-war, massively affected the social imaginary of the nation. This paper seeks to examine the ways in which Japanese people were forced to re-identify what it meant to be Japanese, not only internally, but also internationally, and the struggles and conflicts that arise from the …
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Exploring the political communication dynamics in South Africa’s platinum industry: the case of Marikana
… from three premises: one, the complex set of social, political and economic processes communicated via the news media invite analysis of national development and can be explored using qualitative analysis of mediated products. As skeins of connectivity, mediated political information …
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The Right to Access: credit, concrete hope and a new politics of worth in Brazilian community banks
… everyday life, political subjectivity, and social relations in Brazil's urban peripheries, through a study of the Bem Community Bank in the community of São Benedito (Vitória, Espírito Santo). Drawing on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork and 33 in-depth interviews, the research follows …
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An Exploration of Communication Ethics Scholarship and Economic Spheres
… from Charles Taylor, who notes that these “social imaginaries” determine the way people are treated within a hierarchy is based upon their role within it. Public identity also determines how others are treated and how communication transpires, which Alasdair Macintyre notes is a tradition …
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The dreams and promises of the university: Narratives of first-generation students in doctoral education
… these individuals' parents and sometimes wider social networks, these imaginings may underpin these students' aspirations, choices and plans as they seek a higher education. Moreover, these often hopeful, university imaginings can have particular resonance and stay with individuals even after …
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Red tourism in China: Propaganda, space, commodification
… media system, and censorship and little to the social space of propaganda. This book is meant to fill that gap. It examines Red Tourism in connection with the transforming power relations between the state and the capitalist, the socialist past and the capitalized present in the communication …
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Evangelicalism and capitalism: a reparative account and diagnosis of pathogeneses in the relationship
… method of Martyn Percy, by reading theology with social science. This ‘binocular' method es-tablishes the thesis in two parts. Part one is an account of Evangelicalism and capitalism con-structed from social science sources; part two follows with theological explication of this ac-count. Chapter …
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An Ecological Economics Inquiry into the Social and Solidarity Economy - Insights from an Action Research
The research aims to link the social and solidarity economy (SSE) with the critical ecological discourse. The practice- and movement-based theory of SSE promotes a systemic change, social transformation toward an environmentally and socially just future through resisting and building alternatives …
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An intersectional reading of gender & technology
… computing has been largely driven by political, social, and economic concerns. My project takes issue with this basic premise and argues that the quest to solve the gender-computing gap must also be read as an ethical quest of far-reaching consequence regarding how we think about STEM fields in …