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Madhok, Sumi. "On Vernacular Rights Cultures and the Political Imaginaries of Haq." Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 8, no. 3 (2017): 485–509. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hum.2017.0029.

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De Hoyos Puente, Jorge. "Return projects in the Spanish Republican exile’s political cultures." Culture & History Digital Journal 7, no. 1 (July 6, 2018): 002. http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/chdj.2018.002.

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This paper presents the political projects variety issued from the Spanish Republican exile. Its aim is to analyse the reasons of disagreement that took place throughout forty years of Franco´s opposition. Focusing on the political cultures’ study it can be confirmed a wade range of speeches and political imaginaries that shaped Spanish left-wing groups on the twentieth century Spanish longest exile.

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Sitas, Rike, and Edgar Pieterse. "Democratic Renovations and Affective Political Imaginaries." Third Text 27, no. 3 (May 2013): 327–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2013.798183.

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Pfotenhauer, Sebastian, and Sheila Jasanoff. "Panacea or diagnosis? Imaginaries of innovation and the ‘MIT model’ in three political cultures." Social Studies of Science 47, no. 6 (June 1, 2017): 783–810. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306312717706110.

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Innovation studies continue to struggle with an apparent disconnect between innovation’s supposedly universal dynamics and a sense that policy frameworks and associated instruments of innovation are often ineffectual or even harmful when transported across regions or countries. Using a cross-country comparative analysis of three implementations of the ‘MIT model’ of innovation in the UK, Portugal and Singapore, we show how key features in the design, implementation and performance of the model cannot be explained as mere variations on an identical solution to the same underlying problem. We draw on the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries to show how implementations of the ‘same’ innovation model – and with it the notion of ‘innovation’ itself – are co-produced with locally specific diagnoses of a societal deficiency and equally specific understandings of acceptable remedies. Our analysis thus flips the conventional notion of ‘best-practice transfer’ on its head: Instead of asking ‘how well’ an innovation model has been implemented, we analyze the differences among the three importations to reveal the idiosyncratic ways in which each country imagines the purpose of innovation. We replace the notion of innovation as a ‘panacea’ – a universal fix for all social woes – with that of innovation-as-diagnosis in which a particular ‘cure’ is ‘prescribed’ for a ‘diagnosed’ societal ‘pathology,’ which may in turn trigger ‘reactions’ within the receiving body. This approach offers new possibilities for theorizing how and where culture matters in innovation policy. It suggests that the ‘successes’ and ‘failures’ of innovation models are not a matter of how well societies are able to implement a sound, universal model, but more about how effectively they articulate their imaginaries of innovation and tailor their strategies accordingly.

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Kharkina, Anna. "Cultural and political imaginaries in Putin’s Russia." International Journal of Cultural Policy 27, no. 5 (June 14, 2021): 702–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2021.1931155.

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Larson, Brooke. "Indigenous Media and Political Imaginaries in Contemporary Bolivia." Hispanic American Historical Review 98, no. 3 (August 1, 2018): 569–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182168-6934029.

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Sinclair, Katherine. "Arctic political imaginaries: crafting technologies and inhabiting infrastructures." Visual Studies 32, no. 2 (April 3, 2017): 156–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1472586x.2017.1324738.

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Vallega, Alejandro A. "Remaining with the Crossing: Social-Political Historical Critique at the Limit in Latin American Thought." Research in Phenomenology 42, no. 2 (2012): 229–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156916412x651210.

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Abstract If the question of the humanity of “the other” may become a question, and not be reinscribed into Western colonizing patterns of thought, then its issuing must concern a limit (always arising beyond Western thought), a delimitation of existence that is risked and put at risk without recourse to the project or operation of that colonizing thought that situates it. Ideas of subjectivity, agency, and power-knowledge potential for progress, as well as rationalist instrumental thought used to recognize those peoples and cultures excluded and oppressed under the Western Modern tradition, must be put into question by the very agents claiming recognition, as well as the epistemic structures that sustain these concepts and the dispositions and subconscious expectations constituted by the colonizing practices of bodies and imaginaries that project the very horizons of one’s existence.

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Brara, Rita, and María Valeria Berros. "River Rights: Currents, Undercurrents and Planetary Vistas." Global Environment 15, no. 3 (October 1, 2022): 490–519. http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/ge.2022.150303.

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This paper focuses on recent legal innovations that recognise rivers as having rights in countries and cultures of the Global South. These innovations arise from the urgency to look into the interests and health of both rivers and indigenous/local peoples who depend on the resources of rivers for their material and spiritual sustenance. The article proceeds in three sections. In the first section, we outline the main currents in the formal legal doctrine that are shaping the granting of river rights worldwide. The second section brings out the political and religious undercurrents which tend to reshape legal initiatives in different national cultures and give rise to diverging socio-legal trajectories. Here we track these movements in three countries, namely Colombia, New Zealand and India. In the final section, we outline imaginaries that envision new and recast planetary institutions - including a parliament of rivers - in the context of emergent ecological concerns.

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Abbas, Nabila, and Yves Sintomer. "Three Contemporary Imaginaries of Sortition." Common Knowledge 28, no. 2 (May 1, 2022): 242–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-9809207.

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Abstract A contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics,” this article examines the diverse types of imaginary that support sortition, which is currently at the heart of important debates on the reform of existing democratic institutions. Different and often diametrically opposed actors now advocate sortition as a tool for addressing crises of political representation. How are we to understand this convergence? Over the past two decades, the field of experience and the horizon of expectation of citizens in the global North have profoundly changed, and this article seeks to assess those changes in the context of three ideal types that advocate the use of randomly selected minipublics. This article analyzes, each in turn, the attraction of sortition for supporters and theorists of deliberative democracy, antipolitical democracy, and radical democracy, outlining the elements that unite and divide these imaginaries to help explain the astonishing convergence of voices in defense of sortition in politics.

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Salloukh, Bassel F. "War Memory, Confessional Imaginaries, and Political Contestation in Postwar Lebanon." Middle East Critique 28, no. 3 (July 3, 2019): 341–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19436149.2019.1633748.

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Mariscal, Sergio. "Modernity as Imaginaries in Tension." Thesis Eleven 147, no. 1 (August 2018): 105–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513618787674.

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Phillips, Andrew. "Culture, Collective Imaginaries and the Contested Constitution of International Societies." Millennium: Journal of International Studies 50, no. 1 (September 2021): 233–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03058298211050676.

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Gunner, Liz. "Introduction: African imaginaries and transnational spaces." African Studies 64, no. 1 (July 2005): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00020180500138835.

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Semyonov, Alexander M. "Imperial parliament for a hybrid empire: Representative experiments in the early 20th-century Russian Empire." Journal of Eurasian Studies 11, no. 1 (January 2020): 30–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1879366520902868.

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This article argues that the history of Russian constitutional and parliamentary reform in the early 20th century can be cast in a new light in view of the global transformation of political life under the challenge of imperial diversity and mass politics. The article points out that imperial diversity as a challenge to democratic government was not unique to the Russian Empire. The character of the Russian Empire was marked by peculiarities; it was shaped by composite and hybrid imperial space, which placed the challenge of imperial diversity at the center of political practices and imaginaries. The article traces the history of political reform in the Russian Empire in the early 20th century focusing on the reform of the Sejm of the Grand Duchy of Finland and the novel practices and political imaginaries of imperial diversity in the first and second State Duma. The exploration of the history of the constitutional reform in the Russian Empire of early 20th century demonstrates that rather than being absolute antagonists to representative government, Russian imperial politics and traditions of imperial sovereignty nested possibilities of compromise and redefinition of political solidarity in the space of diversity.

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Biebuyck, William. "European Imaginaries and the Intelligibility of Integration." Journal of Contemporary European Studies 18, no. 2 (June 2010): 161–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2010.486967.

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Srikanth, Rajini. "Writing Human Rights: The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color. Crystal Parikh." MELUS 44, no. 3 (2019): 205–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlz031.

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Sakr, Rita. "Decolonial imaginaries of sanctuary in Behrouz Boochani’s work." Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture 11, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 231–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/cjmc_00027_1.

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This article explores Kurdish–Iranian writer–filmmaker–activist Behrouz Boochani’s work, at the centre of which philosophical and aesthetic questions concerning displacement and defamiliarization fuel a rethinking of the tropes, practices and policies that mark the parameters of sanctuary, thus allowing its re-imagining from an environmentally informed, transcultural decolonial perspective. The article addresses the genre-crossing interdisciplinary framework of ‘horrific surrealism’, in Boochani’s book No Friend But the Mountains and his film Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time as well as other publications that together gesture towards re-conceptualizing sanctuary both on the basis of its historical associations and in visionary anticipation of its urgent renewal. The critical location of Boochani’s work in new conceptual islands off the mainland of thought enables a visible, embodied voicing that goes beyond haunting the oppressor in the struggle for more-than-human rights by proposing sanctuary in terms of relational, indigenously formed imaginaries of resistance disrupting the thanato-political, speciesist border-industrial complex.

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Goggin, Gerard. "Reorienting the Mobile: Australasian Imaginaries." Information Society 24, no. 3 (May 6, 2008): 171–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01972240802020077.

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Shamash, Sarah. "Cosmopolitical technologies and the demarcation of screen space at Cine Kurumin." Media-N 14, no. 1 (September 26, 2018): 11–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.21900/j.median.v14i1.62.

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“Our fight today is to demarcate our space on the screen, when we can no longer demarcate our lands.” I cite Ailton Krenak, one of Brazil’s most influential Indigenous leaders, at his keynote address at the opening of the Cine Kurumin film festival in Salvador, Brazil, to engage with cinematic languages on the margins of dominant media. I experience the festival as an active immersion into imaginaries that forward the process of “decoloniality” (Mignolo). As Sueli Maxakali articulated during a roundtable of Indigenous women filmmakers, the Shaman must dream in order to choose the name of the films made in her community. The production processes of these films were conceived outside the structures of any capitalist market economy; rather, the festival offered an alternate space to take a deliberate leap into expressive audio and oral visual experiences, cultures, languages, politics, and imaginaries resisting ongoing violence entrenched in capital and coloniality. Through a discussion of the festival curation, roundtable discussion, and through a film analysis, I elaborate how the sacred, spiritual, and social are constituent elements of cosmopolitical visions. I argue that film and video as cosmopolitical technologies are unsettling established conceptions of nature and culture, of politics and representation both on and off-screen. Witnessing the Cine Kurumin festival – the totality of the experience becomes an immersive and transformative space for decolonizing the imaginary while disturbing hegemonic political, conceptual, and representational agendas.

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Squirewell, Stan, and Jack Boulton. "Alternative Universes and Carbon Imaginaries." African Diaspora 12, no. 1-2 (February 21, 2020): 143–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18725465-bja10001.

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Struthers, David M. "Rebel Imaginaries: Labor, Culture, and Politics in Depression-Era California." Labor 19, no. 3 (September 1, 2022): 131–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15476715-9795278.

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Kaplan, Sam. "Territorializing Armenians: geo‐texts, and political imaginaries in French‐occupied Cilicia, 1919–1922." History and Anthropology 15, no. 4 (December 2004): 399–423. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0275720042000285169.

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Poole, Amanda, and Jennifer Ann Riggan. "Oscillating Imaginaries: War, Peace, and the Precarious Relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia." Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society 10, no. 1 (August 25, 2022): 33–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.26806/modafr.v10i1.413.

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While the 2018 peace declaration between Ethiopia and Eritrea was widely celebrated, Eritrean refugees expressed concern that peace would be destabilising, and their status in Ethiopia would change. Their concerns were shaped by a long history of oscillating imaginaries of how Eritrea “fits” with Ethiopia. Drawing from historical analysis and ethnographic fieldwork leading up to the peace agreement, we explore how these oscillating imaginaries create an uncomfortable and unstable situation for Eritreans in Ethiopia, rendering refugees vulnerable to unpredictable violence. Better understanding the way identity categories have been subject to constant slippage and have been instrumentalised by political elites could help to forge a more peaceful future among Ethiopia’s nationalities and between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

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Ferguson, Kathy E. "The Russian Revolution and Anarchist Imaginaries." South Atlantic Quarterly 116, no. 4 (October 1, 2017): 745–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-4234983.

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Cárdenas Ruiz, Juan David. "CULTURA POLÍTICA DE LOS BOGOTANOS: PATRONES DEL COMPORTAMIENTO POLÍTICO DE CARA A LAS ELECCIONES DE 2019." Revista Republicana 29 (July 20, 2020): 149–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.21017/rev.repub.2020.v29.a91.

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El Observatorio de Medios de la Universidad de La Sabana realizó en septiembre de 2019 un estudio de cultura política de los habitantes de Bogotá. Se entrevistó a 781 personas para identificar sus imaginarios frente a la política, sus hábitos de participación, información y socialización política, y sus valores políticos, en medio del contexto electoral regional de octubre de 2019 en la ciudad. Se logró evidenciar un patrón de comportamiento que encierra una contradicción entre un alto nivel de participación electoral histórico y unos bajos niveles de interés por la política, la información sobre temas públicos y la interacción política con otras personas, así como también un imaginario negativo frente a la política y la realidad de la ciudad.

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Babar, Aneela. "New ‘social imaginaries’: The Al-Huda phenomenon." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 31, no. 2 (August 2008): 348–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00856400802192945.

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Fouéré, Marie-Aude. "Julius Nyerere, Ujamaa, and Political Morality in Contemporary Tanzania." African Studies Review 57, no. 1 (April 2014): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2014.3.

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Abstract:Since the 2000s, Tanzania has witnessed the return in the public sphere of a reconfigured version of Ujamaa as a set of moral principles embodied in the figure of the first president of Tanzania, Julius Kambarage Nyerere. The persisting traces of Nyerere and Ujamaa are not so evident in actual political practices or economic policies, but rather in collective debates about politics and morality—in short, in contemporary imaginaries of the nation. Contributing to a long-standing discussion of the moral stature of Tanzania’s “father of the nation,” the article explores how and why a shared historical memory of Nyerere is being built or contested to define, mediate, and construct Tanzanian conceptions of morality, belonging, and citizenship in the polis today.

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Jacobsen, Christine M., and Mette Andersson. "‘Gaza in Oslo’: Social imaginaries in the political engagement of Norwegian minority youth." Ethnicities 12, no. 6 (June 21, 2012): 821–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468796812451097.

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Featherstone, David. "Culture wars and the making of authoritarian populism: articulations of spatial division and popular consent." Soundings 81, no. 81 (October 1, 2022): 23–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3898/soun:81.02.2022.

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This article considers the relationship between culture wars and the politically divisive landscape being shaped by contemporary forms of right–wing populism. It argues that culture wars should be understood as a technique through which the current Conservative government is seeking to shape and secure forms of what Stuart Hall termed 'authoritarian populism'. This mode of political intervention is being generated through mobilising particular spatial divisions and imaginaries. To develop this argument the article considers two particular elements within the culture–war discourse in Conservative politics, each of which depends on and mobilises different spatial divisions. The first section deals with the role of 'Levelling Up' discourses, while the second part explores the Tories' increasing emphasis on 'impunity' for British soldiers.

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Dillon, Teresa. "The practice of multispecies relations in urban space and its potentialities for new legal imaginaries." Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 12 (December 1, 2021): 148–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2021.00.07.

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This article explores what it means to enact multispecies relations in urban space. This exploration is rooted in contemporary art practices that create living frameworks through which encounters with non-human animal cultures, histories, rituals and justice are manifested. Such works play with the legalities and categorizations of ‘animal’ and ‘nature’ by exposing the nested reasonings and protocols that continue to propagate hierarchical species logics. Consequentially such work, alongside scholarship on earth-bound legalities, looks to how law can foster more just multispecies orderings, which aspire to create more equitable conditions for all. To scaffold such transitions the article makes the case for how a constant, public, educational and social rehearsal that unknots histories of liberal individualism is required in order to shift the ontological position of the human species. This rehearsal is set against the backdrop of climate emergencies and the call for a more expansive notion of the urban commons. The closing reflections point to how the Earth’s inviolability must necessarily be placed at the centre of an approach to urban making that is complemented by an intersectional set of innovative cosmologies, actions, manners and ways.

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Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria. "Re-animating soils: Transforming human–soil affections through science, culture and community." Sociological Review 67, no. 2 (February 28, 2019): 391–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038026119830601.

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‘In a sense we are unique moist packages of animated soil’. These are the alluring words of Francis D. Hole, a professor of soil science renowned for encouraging love for the soil and understanding of its vital importance. Affirming humans as being soil entangles them in substantial commonness. This article explores how altering the imaginaries of soils as inert matter subjected to human use and re-animating the life within them is transforming contemporary human–soil affections by developing a sense of shared aliveness. Presenting research on current practices, material involvements and stories emerging from scientific accounts, community involvements and artistic manifestations, I propose five emerging motifs of renewed imaginaries of soil’s aliveness that feed into each other to affirm intimate entanglements of human–soil matter. I argue that while a vision of anthropocenic soils invokes yet another objectified natural resource brought to exhaustion by a deadly human-centred productionist ethos, as soils are re-animated and enlivened, a sense of human–soil entangled and intimate interdependency is intensified. These new involvements with soil’s aliveness open up a sense of earthy connectedness that animates and re-affects material worlds and a sense of more than human community in those involved.

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Nesbit, Jeffrey S. "The American spaceport and the power of cultural imaginaries." European Journal of American Culture 39, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 317–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ejac_00033_1.

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Cape Canaveral, the site of the American space programme launch complex located on the coast of Central Florida, has both a deep history in technological innovation and has been the place for architecturally imagining the new frontier of civilization. The range and trajectory of this new extraterrestrial frontier today resides within this once remote wilderness at the ends of architecture – both at the ends of a disciplinary formation and the physical site that enables the departure from Earth. Cultural imaginaries, collective forms created by culture, such as images relating to the assumed efficiencies of space exploration, construct a political desire for departing the Earth, yet rely heavily on architectural and infrastructural devices that are soon left abandoned on our terrestrial surface. This article moves from the geographic space of the late nineteenth century to the celebrated technological objects of NASA’s Apollo 11 programme for reaching the moon. By tracking the range, escape and return of the Apollo programmes’ constructed environment, the American spaceport reveals an invisible wilderness as an architectural aesthetic formed out of the cultural imagination in the early twenty-first century.

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Schreiber, Rebecca M. "Visions of Refuge: The Central American Exodus and the Floating Ladder." American Literary History 34, no. 3 (August 19, 2022): 1015–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajac076.

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Abstract This essay focuses on two performative acts. The first is the fall 2018 caravan, a work of political performance, which involved thousands of Central American migrants/refugees fleeing their countries in response to structural and other forms of violence. These caravaneros (caravaners) traveled collectively through Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico to protect themselves from being targeted by state and nonstate actors en route to the US–Mexico border. The second performative act, which took place in Tijuana in January 2019, involved an artistic collaboration between Caleb Duarte and a group of caravaneros temporarily residing at El Barretal, a heavily guarded Mexican government-run refugee camp. Together, Duarte and the caravaneros co-authored a sculptural performance, creating a fabric ladder tied to helium balloons, which the wind lifted above the camp. I argue that Floating Ladder enacts how these caravaneros imagine their movement and mobility, as it challenges the regional immigration regime aiming to block migrants/refugees from making asylum claims in the US. Both the fall 2018 caravan and Duarte’s collaborative artwork with caravaneros are political acts by migrants/refugees that entailed the construction of social and political imaginaries beyond the constraints and violence of national borders. Both the fall 2018 caravan and Duarte’s collaborative artwork with caravaneros (caravaners) are political acts by migrants/refugees that entailed the construction of social and political imaginaries beyond the constraints and violence of national borders.

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JAFFE, RIVKE. "Talkin' 'bout the Ghetto: Popular Culture and Urban Imaginaries of Immobility." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 36, no. 4 (June 6, 2012): 674–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2012.01121.x.

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Minářová, Markéta. "A Study of Social Imaginaries Journal, Zeta Books." HISTORICKÁ SOCIOLOGIE 13, no. 2 (November 29, 2021): 133–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23363525.2021.21.

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Dahlman, Sara, Sine N. Just, Linea Munk Petersen, Prins Marcus Valiant Lantz, and Nanna Würtz Kristiansen. "Datafied female health: Sociotechnical imaginaries of femtech in Danish public discourse." MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 39, no. 74 (May 24, 2023): 105–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/mk.v39i74.133900.

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The digitalization of health promises individual empowerment while raising the threat of collective surveillance. Conceptualizing these threats and promises as sociotechnical imaginaries, we explore how issues of datafied female health are articulated in Danish public discourse. Empirically, we work with a large data set of Danish news media coverage of algorithmic technologies in the past 10 years (2011–2021). We locate coverage of female-oriented health technologies (or femtech) by using the data sprint methodology to track the emergence of such technologies as a topic of public concern. Across the data, we identify two broad sociotechnical imaginaries: one zooming in on individual uses of femtech, the other focusing on the collective benefits of public health initiatives. We conclude that sociotechnical imaginaries of femtech are increasingly entangled in everyday life, making female bodies knowable through algorithms and data. As such, female health becomes subject to instrumental rationality, not lived reality.

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Lally, Nick. "Crowdsourced surveillance and networked data." Security Dialogue 48, no. 1 (September 21, 2016): 63–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967010616664459.

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Possibilities for crowdsourced surveillance have expanded in recent years as data uploaded to social networks can be mined, distributed, assembled, mapped, and analyzed by anyone with an uncensored internet connection. These data points are necessarily fragmented and partial, open to interpretation, and rely on algorithms for retrieval and sorting. Yet despite these limitations, they have been used to produce complex representations of space, subjects, and power relations as internet users attempt to reconstruct and investigate events while they are developing. In this article, I consider one case of crowdsourced surveillance that emerged following the detonation of two bombs at the 2013 Boston Marathon. I focus on the actions of a particular forum on reddit.com , which would exert a significant influence on the events as they unfolded. The study describes how algorithmic affordances, internet cultures, surveillance imaginaries, and visual epistemologies contributed to the structuring of thought, action, and subjectivity in the moment of the event. I use this case study as a way to examine moments of entangled political complicity and resistance, highlighting the ways in which particular surveillance practices are deployed and feed back into the event amid its unfolding.

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Bhattacharyya, Urmi. "Visualizing Vigilance in the Generalized Representation of the Nomad." Conflict and Society 8, no. 1 (June 1, 2022): 73–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/arcs.2022.080105.

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Reflecting on the generic construction of the nomad through discursive imaginaries and regulatory forms of control, this work engages in the interpretation of vigilance through the acknowledgment of its connectedness to the politics and practice of visuality. Based on essentialized interpretations of identity, ahistorical accounts of mobility, and stereotypical representations of difference, generalized nomadic representations legitimize measures of vigilance and subject formation. By reflecting on the representation of the Banjara community in Rajasthan, India, and their contexts of socioeconomic discrimination, the article thus emphasizes how acts of vigilance in the form of measures of classification and discipline operate in relation to imaginaries of normative order and social distinction, to engage in the structural reproduction of distance, difference and (in)visibility.

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Zangl, Veronika. "Politics of humour in extremis: Cabaret and propaganda in the Netherlands during the Second World War." European Journal of Cultural Studies 25, no. 2 (April 2022): 389–405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13675494221086311.

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This article examines politicized humour in totalitarian regimes by conducting an analysis of the radio programme ‘Zondagmiddagcabaret van Paulus de Ruiter’ (‘Sunday Afternoon Cabaret by Paulus de Ruiter’), which was aired between 1941 and 1943 in the Netherlands under German occupation. The radio programme in the occupied Netherlands is exceptional in that it was explicitly designed as a ‘political cabaret’, whereas propaganda in Nazi Germany generally aimed to indirectly influence the audience through so-called light entertainment. The focus on dramaturgies of humorous strategies and on Althusser’s concept of interpellation allows for a distinction of different scenes of interpellation as staged by the ‘Sunday Afternoon Cabaret’. Even though the study of National Socialist programmes can be distressing for both the researcher and the reader, the aim is to analyse the workings of humour without necessarily characterizing humorous strategies in terms of ‘good’ or ‘bad’, but instead paying attention to the way humour works on socio-political imaginaries. During the first period of the broadcast, the ambivalent character of humour aimed at shifting ideological frames, to redefine socio-political imaginaries. Later on, the performed dramaturgy of humour redefined the scene of interpellation as a scene of exclusive racial national identity, even before the German National Socialist authorities started to implement measures for the persecution and annihilation of Jewish citizens in the Netherlands at the beginning of 1942.

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Jasanoff, Sheila, and Sang-Hyun Kim. "Sociotechnical Imaginaries and National Energy Policies." Science as Culture 22, no. 2 (June 2013): 189–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2013.786990.

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Prichard, Franz. "Introduction to “City as Landscape” (1970) by Matsuda Masao (1933–2020)." ARTMargins 10, no. 1 (February 2021): 60–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/artm_a_00284.

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Abstract This introduction to Masao Matsuda’s essay, “The City as Landscape,” provides an outline of the essay’s role in the emergence of a radical discourse of landscape, known as fūkei-ron in Japan. In addition to illuminating crucial aspects of the political and discursive context of Matsuda’s writings, the introduction orients contemporary readers to this essay’s contributions to an expansion of the global imaginaries and aesthetic genealogies of the radical left.

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Bekus, Nelly. "Echo of 1989? Protest Imaginaries and Identity Dilemmas in Belarus." Slavic Review 80, no. 1 (2021): 4–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/slr.2021.25.

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The revolution of 2020 in Belarus has often been described as a new 1989 and there is no doubt that the emancipatory appeal of the Belarusian protests is similar to the one that sustained the 1989 revolutions. But will building the democratic system—the major aspiration of the Belarusian protesters—follow the scripts of liberalization and westernization in evidence in other eastern and central European countries? Will self-determination in post-Lukashenka Belarus follow a scenario modelled on the patterns adopted by other east European and post-Soviet states, where ethnocentric national identities and the memory of victims of communism became distinctive markers of east European post-communism? Examining the symbolic dimension of the protest repertoire, this article demonstrates how the protests re-arranged the system of historical and cultural references that shaped the foundation of Belarusian collective memory and identity discourses since 1994. It reveals how a broad variety of actors engaged in contention activated a process of re-signification of cultural and political symbols and ideas and led to the formation of a blended socio-cultural imaginary, which integrates previously disconnected and competing projects and ideologies.

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Oludare, Olupemi. "Street language in Dùndún Drum Language." African Music : Journal of the International Library of African Music 11, no. 3 (February 28, 2022): 33–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.21504/amj.v12i1.2429.

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Dùndún drum language is a practice of speech surrogacy employed by dùndún drummers in Yoruba culture. The dùndún drummers play sequences of melo-rhythmic patterns; a form of communication that employs musical and linguistic elements, comprehensible to listeners knowledgeable in the Yoruba language. Although these sequenced patterns are sourced from Yoruba everyday sentences and oral genres (proverbs, poetry, praise-chants, and idiomatic phrases), the drummers also embrace other social narratives. These include the popular linguistic expressions in public spaces referred to as “street language.” This is because the streets serve as spaces for social life, musical and cultural imaginaries, musical and language expressions, and identity. This street language, referred to as “ohùn ìgboro” in Yoruba, include slang (saje), slurs (òtè), neologies (ènà), satire (èfè), dance-drum patterns (àlùjó), and socio-political slogans (àtúnlò-èdè). This article explores the influence of street language on dùndún music. This article follows an ethnographic model, with an analysis of the content of the dùndún music and its associated texts. The article’s findings include the extent to which the two cultures have overlapped, and the various socio-cultural benefits of adopting the language of each other’s cultural practices. In the process, the article contributes to the debate on authenticity and social structure in Yoruba culture. The article emphasises the need for an integrated research approach of music and language and their interrelationship to street cultures in Nigeria.

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Barure, Walter Kudzai, and Irikidzayi Manase. "Different narration, same history: The politics of writing ‘democratic narratives’ in Zimbabwe." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 57, no. 2 (September 17, 2020): 48–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/tl.v57i2.6518.

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Over the past five decades, Zimbabwe’s political trajectories were characterised by a historiographic revision and deconstruction that revealed varying ideological perceptions and positions of political actors. This article reconsiders the current shifts in the Zimbabwean historiography and focuses on the politics of positioning the self in the national narrative. The article analyses three Zimbabwean political autobiographies written by political actors from the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), particularly Michael Auret’s From Liberator to Dictator: An Insider’s Account of Robert Mugabe’s Descent into Tyranny (2009), Morgan Tsvangirai’s At the Deep End (2011), and David Coltart’s The Struggle Continues: 50 Years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe (2016). It also discusses how writing in Zimbabwe is a contested terrain that is bifurcated between oppositional and dominant imaginaries of politics, the revolutionary tradition, and past performances of power.

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Werbner, Pnina. "Dialogical subjectivities for hard times: expanding political and ethical imaginaries of subaltern and elite Batswana women." African Identities 7, no. 3 (August 2009): 299–325. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725840903031825.

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Gugganig, Mascha, and Nina Klimburg-Witjes. "Island Imaginaries: Introduction to a Special Section." Science as Culture 30, no. 3 (June 15, 2021): 321–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2021.1939294.

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Showers, Kate B. "Environmental imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines 47, no. 1 (April 2013): 160–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.765270.

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Salazar, Noel B. "On imagination and imaginaries, mobility and immobility: Seeing the forest for the trees." Culture & Psychology 26, no. 4 (June 19, 2020): 768–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354067x20936927.

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It is hard to talk about human mobilities without taking into consideration how mobility is being shaped by and shaping processes of imagination. The key concepts of imagination and mobility have rich and complex genealogies. The matter is even made more complex because there are many related concepts surrounding them. Imagination is associated with images, imagery and imaginaries, whereas mobility is connected to movement, motion and migration (not to mention its imagined opposite, immobility). To be able to see the forest for the trees, I focus in this critical reflection on a discussion of the concepts themselves. One of the analytical advantages of mobility studies, a relatively novel field of study, is that it shows us how imagination (a dynamic psychological process) and imaginaries (products of the imagination) are crucial for very different forms of human (im)mobility.

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Rao, Yichen. "Discourse as infrastructure: How “New Infrastructure” policies re-infrastructure China." Global Media and China 8, no. 3 (September 2023): 254–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20594364231198605.

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The term “New Infrastructure” has been highlighted in China’s recent policies. It refers to a set of new, and expanding, policies and the discourse surrounding them which support the development of facilities, equipment, and systems derived from the latest technologies, including 5G Internet of Things, AI, cloud computing, and data centers. This article reviews China’s New Infrastructure policies, analyzing their specific discursive ontologies and how they relate to major state projects to “re-infrastructure” China’s economy. It introduces the concept of “discursive infrastructure” and argues that the policies that redefine and recategorize infrastructure themselves serve as a form of infrastructure. Key to the concept is the recognition that discursive infrastructure relies on mutually constitutive material and semiotic dimensions and dialectically reproduces both symbols of progress and positive infrastructural imaginaries. Drawing on an analysis of policy documents and other discursive materials, the article tracks New Infrastructure’s fetish-like existence and unravels the multiple political modalities, as well their varying efficacies, that are manifested through the discursive publics they generate. It likewise reveals some emerging conflicts that appear across New Infrastructure’s different contexts, showing critical gaps between imaginaries and actualities, all of which have a profound effect on a re-infrastructured China.

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