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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"social imaginary"”.
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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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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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The social imaginary, Jacques Lacan, and the African Christian diaspora in Europe
… in two sections. In Part One, the notion of the social imaginary, as a theoretical response to the challenges of 'multiple modernities', is compared to the theories of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. In Part Two, the findings from this comparison are applied to reflect on contemporary issues in …
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Ambient Lyric: Apollinaire and the Social Imaginary of Twentieth-Century US Poetry
… US became understood as a means to mediate social complexity, explored via the reception of the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Apollinaire becomes a crucial figure, I argue, because the articulation that he gives of his situation at the heart of a concentrated metropolitan network in …
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O Land, Land, Land! Images of Land in Jeremiah and in New Zealand Poetry: Ecological Readings from Aotearoa.
… depictions of Land continue to shape the social imaginary of this country. After developing a methodological framework, a selection of Jeremianic texts are critically analysed, focusing on the representation of Land. These representations include: Land as wilderness and garden (Jer 2:1-9; …
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Religious "Interpersonal Network Proximity" and the Case for Recognition
… of community to a more networked model. This social shift is interesting to consider in tandem with theories of secularization that emphasize the rise of an individualized social imaginary. Within a networked society, individuals remain inherently communicative and thus retain the ability to …
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Muslim Distinction: Imitation and the Anxiety of Jewish, Christian, and Other Influences
… Muslim context was to uphold hierarchical social distinctions. Next, I show that Muslims imagined these distinctions in very concrete terms. In contrast to conventional studies that emphasize the role of abstract doctrine in making Islam a distinct religion, this study highlights the …
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Imagens do medo na mídia: uma análise das representações da violência em Natal-RN
Social violence is one of the phenomena of human life that produce effects on the social imaginary as it is in it that are designed conflicting values concerning what is most vital to humans, such as respect for the strength and the fear of death, pleasure trespass for injury and pain, the …
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Aba té Home: Journey to Robben Island
… My understanding is that our contemporary social imaginary in Africa is influenced by the remnants of colonial archives. The form of this project is therefore inspired by the need for an alternative perspective, that is rooted in indigenous sensibilities (Harris, 2002:84). As an artist, …
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Discursive (in)stability: Moral subjectivities and global hierarchies in transnational migrant women’s narratives
… women use discursive moves to (re)organize their social imaginary and to claim stability for themselves. I demonstrate that although migrants occupy a tenuous position in relation to the gendered and moral images of “ideal citizenship” promoted by both their country of residence and their country …
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From borders to topographies: identities and expansion in British literature, 1620-1750
… examines representations of the cultural, social, and economic exchanges between the English and foreign peoples, whether in London or in the Americas, the Levant, and Far East. In the beginning of the seventeenth century, the English forged a social imaginary underwritten by their …
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Artists’ Collectives and Collectivities: A Curatorial Investigation into Assembling the Social
… to find and cluster around a shared sense of social imaginary, a shared issue of concern. A 'Typology of Association' runs throughout the thesis to trace thought on grouping found in political theory, art history, exhibitionary practice and sociology to produce a nuanced interpretation of how …
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Relatability: the hidden force behind Black African youth employment disadvantage
… theory and a blend of perspectives focusing on social processes that underpin labour market inequalities, this study found that the Black African youth labour market disadvantage is an outcome of an interplay of macro-contextual structural factors, exclusionary economic and labour market design, …
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"This Blessed Plot": Negotiating Britishness in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia, and Zadie Smith's White Teeth
… remain vigilant to possible peril, Britain’s “social imaginary” has expanded to understand the benefits of multiculturalism and of valuing all citizens as equal.</p>
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"This Blessed Plot": Negotiating Britishness in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia, and Zadie Smith's White Teeth
… remain vigilant to possible peril, Britain’s “social imaginary” has expanded to understand the benefits of multiculturalism and of valuing all citizens as equal.</p>
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The Contested Space of Community Colleges in the Age of Neoliberalism: The Case of City College of San Francisco Through the Accreditation Crisis of 2012-2017
… democracy difficult to achieve. The alternative social imaginary of open access offers insights into radical planning theory and practice. The focus of open access is to center those who are the most impacted; where understanding who is being oppressed and how becomes information for what kinds …
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Gated nature and its role in creating place attachment and place identity in post-apartheid South Africa: an analysis of Grotto Bay private residential estate
… romantic and nostalgic idealisation of their new social imaginary. The respondents' subjective experiences exemplify the ways in which estates such as Grotto Bay may stand to perpetuate white hegemony and environmental injustice in the post-colonial and post-apartheid contexts.
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Images, Institutions and Evolving Nation: Transformations in Australian art, museums, and the cultural imaginary in the 20th century
… material wealth, dominant polity, law, and the social imaginary of national community since Federation. Analysing the deceptive self-image of a peaceful 'settler society', in control of a social and pastoral geography cleared of Aboriginal occupation or claims to alienated Country, the thesis …
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Images, Institutions and Evolving Nation: Transformations in Australian art, museums, and the cultural imaginary in the 20th century
… material wealth, dominant polity, law, and the social imaginary of national community since Federation. Analysing the deceptive self-image of a peaceful 'settler society', in control of a social and pastoral geography cleared of Aboriginal occupation or claims to alienated Country, the thesis …
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Making Sense of Chinese Higher Education Internationalization: Critical Gazes at the Nexus of State, Power, and Globalization
… policies through the lens of the social imaginary, revealing the underlying continuity between these policies. In Chapter 5, a critical policy discourse analysis of the Belt and Road education policy documents demonstrates how discursive government is carried out in policy …
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