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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"political imaginary"”.
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Colonial Investments: The Global Coordinates of the English Political Imaginary, 1628–1668
<p>The main question my dissertation attempts to address is: what role did the expansion of English colonial trades play in the transformation of English society and government between the Petition of Right and the early years of the Restoration (1628-1668)? My thesis is that during this period, …
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The philatelic imagination of pan-African independence under platform capitalism
… prospective ambition of the mid-century African political imaginary by delegitimising Kwame Nkrumah’s project of Pan-African nationalism for future generations. Using the media of digital video, installation, bookwork and digital animation, the four works adopt the artistic methodology of visual …
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Politics of religious diversity: toleration, religious freedom and visibility of religion in public space
… immigration concerns have increased social and political anxiety about the visibility of religion and religious diversity in public space. Visibility in public space is a measure of sociability: expressions of identity in public space attest to a public recognition as well as integration of this …
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The Poetics of Liminality and the Politics of English Literary Culture, 1635-1700
… and Jacobite nostalgia. Loosening the grip of political chronology on the historical study of literary practice in this way better allows us to discern the overlapping presences of past ages throughout the long seventeenth century and to trace how persistently the splintering of the political …
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The Politics of Disaster and Their Role in Imagining an Outside. Understanding the Rise of the Post-Fukushima Anti-Nuclear Movements
Political disillusionment is widespread in contemporary Japanese society, despite people’s struggles in the recession. Our social relationships become entangled, and we can no longer clearly identify our interest in politics. The search for the outside of stagnant reality sometimes leads …
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Climate Impasse, Fossil Hegemony, and the Modern Crisis of Imagination
… about climate change — has become a defining political, social, and cultural problem of the contemporary period (1980s to the present). Supposing that representations of impasse reveal something about the origins, features, and trajectories of U.S. climate politics, I perform close readings …
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India's Temporal Imaginaries of Climate Change, 1988-2018
… extreme disruptions to existing concepts of political time, namely the distinction between the modes of time adopted by modern nation-states, natural time, and the everyday life of human beings. Yet the nation-state remains the primary actor through which climate politics is shaped. India is …
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There Is No Name for What We Must Become: Autonomous Social Movement in Southern Illinois
… following Cornelius Castoriadus, the “autonomous political imaginary.” In attempting to realize their plans, the various initiatives hit a series of limits and difficulties stemming from a variety of political, economic, and cultural factors. In particular, I explore how the initiatives at times …
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Reading Democracy: Anthologies of African American Women's Writing and the Legacy of Black Feminist Criticism, 1970-1990
… Studies by focusing on the institutionalized political effects of Women's Liberation and the black liberation movements: the canonization of black women's writing and the development of a black feminist critical practice. Tracing a variety of conceptions of black feminist criticism over the …