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Journal articles on the topic "Social imaginaries theory"
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Steele, Meili. "Social imaginaries and the theory of the normative utterance." Philosophy & Social Criticism 43, no. 10 (July 14, 2017): 1045–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0191453717715294.
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From Charles Taylor to Marcel Gauchet, theorists of the social imaginary have given us new ways to talk about the shared structures of meanings and practices of the West. Theorists of this group have argued against the narrow horizons of meaning that are deployed by deliberative political theories in developing their basic normative concepts and principles, providing an alternative to the oscillation between the constructivism and the realism. Theorists of the imaginary have enabled us to think about normatively charged collective imaginaries as logically prior to the construction of normative principles. What theorists of the imaginary have not done is make specific connections between the ontological background of social imaginaries and the normative utterance. This lacuna has left them vulnerable to the charges of ‘normative deficit’ and vagueness that Habermas and others famously make against philosophies of ‘world disclosure’. This article develops a conception of the normative utterance that enables us to reason through social imaginaries. In such reasoning, claims are not expressed in the propositional form of the Rawlsian or Habermasian justification, but through a complex engagement with the worldhood that informs normative judgements.
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Adams, Suzi, and Johann P. Arnason. "A Further Conversation on Social Imaginaries." International Journal of Social Imaginaries 1, no. 2 (November 25, 2022): 328–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/27727866-bja00007.
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Abstract The conversation begins with a discussion of political philosophy, a critique of a priori normativist approaches to that field, and reflections on the distinction between politics and the political. It moves on to clarify the place of the political within an ontology of the social-historical; while the pioneering contribution of Castoriadis to such an ontology is acknowledged, the need for a more elaborate theory of creative action, with due allowance for its involvement in historical processes, is emphasized. After some considerations on the role of ideology and utopia within the social-historical context, the conversation moves back to the questions of autonomy, creativity and the imaginary, and underlines the need to theorize autonomy as an imaginary signification in its own right, rather than merely a new attitude to imaginary significations. Implications of that view for the idea of reflective autonomy are discussed, with particular emphasis on confronting the omnipresent temptation of hubris, the condition of value pluralism and the fundamental fact of uncertainty about the future. The conversation concludes with some comments on diagnoses of our times, and a critique of various “postisms” as well as of the attempts to reduce contemporary societies to a single denominator.
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Blokker, Paul. "Symposium on Zoran Oklopcic’s ‘Beyond the People: Social Imaginary and Constituent Imagination’ – Introductory remarks." International Journal of Social Imaginaries 1, no. 2 (November 25, 2022): 219–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/27727866-bja00017.
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Abstract This symposium discusses Zoran Oklopcic’s book Beyond the People: Constitutional Imaginaries and Constituent Imagination. The book is an important contribution to the emerging debate on constitutional imaginaries and imagination in constitutional theory, of which this introduction delineates the contours.
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Yepez-Reyes, Veronica. "Connective Action for Global Fairness: Building Social Imaginaries." HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business, no. 58 (December 22, 2018): 215–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v0i58.111686.
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Social imaginaries are frameworks within which people organise their collective world; where imagination, not simply reason, plays a part in the construction of social practices. Through a grounded theory approach, this article asks whether and how social imaginaries of global fairness are present in connective action, a type of digital interaction for advocacy. From January 2014 to June 2015, the study followed the Facebook accounts of five advocacy organisations: Hivos, Oxfam IBIS, Intermon-Oxfam, SSNC and Vredeseilanden. Connective action, more than just accomplishing an expressing function of posting and sharing – which could be considered as ‘slacktivism’– denotes cooperating and acting by means of dialogic learning involving reflection and action. The research suggests that current social imaginaries may be built in connective action involving topics of nature conservation, equality, eco-farming, among others. Thus, the field of connective action remains open to theorizing how these imaginaries could constitute a strong foundation upon which communication for social change (CFSC) strategies may be grounded.
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Rahder, Micha. "Home and Away." Environment and Society 10, no. 1 (September 1, 2019): 158–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ares.2019.100110.
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This article examines the reinvigoration of outer space imaginaries in the era of global environmental change, and the impacts of these imaginaries on Earth. Privatized space research mobilizes fears of ecological, political, or economic catastrophe to garner support for new utopian futures, or the search for Earth 2.0. These imaginaries reflect dominant global discourses about environmental and social issues, and enable the flow of earthly resources toward an extraterrestrial frontier. In contrast, eco-centric visions emerging from Gaia theory or feminist science fiction project post-earthly life in terms that are ecological, engaged in multispecies relations and ethics, and anticapitalist. In these imaginaries, rather than centering humans as would-be destroyers or saviors of Earth, our species becomes merely instrumental in launching life—a multispecies process—off the planet, a new development in deep evolutionary time. This article traces these two imaginaries and how they are reshaping material and political earthly life.
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Doucet, Andrea. "What does Rachel Carson have to do with family sociology and family policies? Ecological imaginaries, relational ontologies, and crossing social imaginaries." Families, Relationships and Societies 10, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 11–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204674321x16111320274832.
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In the past decade, multiple compounding crises ‐ ecological, racial injustices, ‘care crises’ and multiple recent crises related to the COVID-19 pandemic ‐ have reinforced the powerful role of critical and social policy researchers to push back against ‘fake news’, ‘alternative facts’, and a post-truth era that denigrates science and evidence-based research. These new realities can pose challenges for social scientists who work within relational, ontological, non-representational, new materialist, performative, decolonising, or ecological ‘turns’ in social theory and epistemologies. This article’s overarching question is: How does one work within non-representational research paradigms while also attempting to hold onto representational, authoritative and convincing versions of truth, evidence, facts and data? Informed by my research on feminist philosopher and epistemologist Lorraine Code’s 40-year trajectory of writing about knowledge making and ecological social imaginaries, I navigate these dilemmas by calling on an unexpected ally to family sociology and family policy: the late American environmentalist Rachel Carson. Extending Code’s case study of Carson, I argue for an approach that combines (1) ecological relational ontologies, (2) the ethics and politics of knowledge making, (3) crossing social imaginaries of knowledge making and (4) a reconfigured view of knowledge makers as working towards just and cohabitable worlds.
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Wang, Zhe, and Lawal Marafa. "Tourism Imaginary and Landscape at Heritage Site: A Case in Honghe Hani Rice Terraces, China." Land 10, no. 4 (April 20, 2021): 439. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10040439.
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The relationship between tourism and landscape has been extensively studied, but a conceptual framework to study cultural relationships between tourism and landscape is not specified in the literature. On the basis of the theory of social imaginary, this article takes China’s Honghe Hani Terraces as an example to study how the landscape is imagined in tourism and the potential cultural conflicts. Content analysis on tourist discourses and images in social media was conducted in order to identify tourist imaginaries about the landscape. A gap between tourism imaginaries and the Hani landscape was found: the latter was imagined as an overlooking view of stereotyped terraced imagery, a schema separated and independent from other landscape components. In-depth interviews on stakeholders and participant observations were used to study the production process of tourism imaginaries. Findings show that the viewing platforms and roads provided an enclave space from local contexts, wherein the Hani landscape was staged for gazing. The tourism company’s strategies dominated the process, leading to local communities’ marginalization and threats to the landscape. We suggest that tourism planning and marketing should maintain the integrity of landscape in tourism imaginaries and empower the local communities, thereby reducing cultural tensions between tourism and the landscape.
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Phadke, Shruti, Mattia Samory, and Tanushree Mitra. "Characterizing Social Imaginaries and Self-Disclosures of Dissonance in Online Conspiracy Discussion Communities." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 5, CSCW2 (October 13, 2021): 1–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3479855.
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Online discussion platforms provide a forum to strengthen and propagate belief in misinformed conspiracy theories. Yet, they also offer avenues for conspiracy theorists to express their doubts and experiences of cognitive dissonance. Such expressions of dissonance may shed light on who abandons misguided beliefs and under what circumstances. This paper characterizes self-disclosures of dissonance about QAnon-a conspiracy theory initiated by a mysterious leader "Q" and popularized by their followers ?anons"-in conspiratorial subreddits. To understand what dissonance and disbelief mean within conspiracy communities, we first characterize their social imaginaries-a broad understanding of how people collectively imagine their social existence. Focusing on 2K posts from two image boards, 4chan and 8chan, and 1.2 M comments and posts from 12 subreddits dedicated to QAnon, we adopt a mixed-methods approach to uncover the symbolic language representing the movement,expectations,practices,heroes and foes of the QAnon community. We use these social imaginaries to create a computational framework for distinguishing belief and dissonance from general discussion about QAnon, surfacing in the 1.2M comments. We investigate the dissonant comments to characterize the dissonance expressed along QAnon social imaginaries. Further, analyzing user engagement with QAnon conspiracy subreddits, we find that self-disclosures of dissonance correlate with a significant decrease in user contributions and ultimately with their departure from the community. Our work offers a systematic framework for uncovering the dimensions and coded language related to QAnon social imaginaries and can serve as a toolbox for studying other conspiracy theories across different platforms. We also contribute a computational framework for identifying dissonance self-disclosures and measuring the changes in user engagement surrounding dissonance. Our work provide insights into designing dissonance based interventions that can potentially dissuade conspiracists from engaging in online conspiracy discussion communities.
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Mandoki, Katya. "Point and Line Over the Body: Social Imaginaries Underlying the Logic of Fashion." Journal of Popular Culture 36, no. 3 (January 2003): 600–622. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1540-5931.00023.
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Brugidou, Jeremie, and Clouette Fabien. "‘AnthropOcean’: Oceanic perspectives and cephalopodic imaginaries moving beyond land-centric ecologies." Social Science Information 57, no. 3 (August 28, 2018): 359–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0539018418795603.
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We sought contributions from the widest possible spectrum, asking the authors to reflect upon the notion of ‘AnthropOcean’: theory, fiction, journal, ethological accounts, or ethnographic material from time spent at sea, testimony by those who have gained experience from the ocean, encounters with ocean inhabitants (no species preferred), etc. The aim is to build imagination and sensitivity upon these contributions in order to invent new narrative forms coherent with our contemporary experiences of an animated world. We would like to suggest that oceanic sensitive-anthropology can provide precious sense-ideas in order to think, feel and imagine the contemporary ecological crisis. Considering our present as anything but an ‘end of the world’, and more as a profound transformative process, how can ocean-sense-ideas bring useful intuitions? How can ocean inhabitants, ecosystems and dynamics, teach us a lesson in imagination? Can we dream other dreams than that of industrial exploitation?
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Social imaginaries theory"
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Janssen, Limor. "Can I sleep at your place tonight? : A case study on the shared economy and practices of trust assessment." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-257213.
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This thesis discusses the increased amount of information available online, and how we use it in our daily lives to make decisions. It aims to open a discussion on the complexity of accessing and evaluating digital information. As the Internet has grown, the amount of information available to the public has exploded. Not only have we gained access to what seems to be an unlimited amount of sources, but also the number of producers has grown. By means of a case study, this thesis explores practices of trust assessment within the shared economy. Through the lens of Actor-Network-Theory as well as Modern Social Imaginaries, media practices are studied by using the example of Airbnb, an online, shared economy platform for accommodation. Airbnb users as well as other travelers are asked about their media practices through an online survey with 229 respondents as well as in-depth interviews with 7 users of Airbnb. Results show that practices of trust assessment differ within and outside of the platform. There is a strong dependency on social information, produced by fellow platform users, especially in the form of reviews. In addition the study finds support for a social imaginary, in which the platform defines the accepted behavior for the users of the platform, who within the economic constraint comply with the social norm set by the organization, in order to be able to use the services of Airbnb.
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Rodriguez, Aleesha J. "A controversy analysis of Tesla's (big) battery in Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2022. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/229025/1/Aleesha_Rodriguez_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis presents a controversy analysis of Tesla’s (big) battery, which was an imagined technology introduced via a wager on Twitter, in 2017, to solve an ongoing power crisis controversy in Australia. This research explores the co-constitution of Tesla’s (big) battery through the key events, actors, and issues raised by publics on social media and problematises the simple “green” narratives. In doing so, this thesis illustrates how particular imaginaries about certain people, technologies, and issues shaped renewable energy policy and outcomes in Australia.
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Sjögren, Hanna. "Sustainability for Whom? : The Politics of Imagining Environmental Change in Education." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema teknik och social förändring, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-127393.
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Global initiatives regarding environmental change have increasingly become part of political agendas and of our collective imagination. In order to form sustainable societies, education is considered crucial by organizations such as the United Nations and the European Union. But how is the notion of sustainability imagined and formed in educational practices? What does sustainability make possible, and whom does it involve? These critical questions are not often asked in educational research on sustainability. This study suggests that the absence of critical questions in sustainability education is part of a contemporary post-political framing of environmental issues. In order to re-politicize sustainability in education, this study critically explores how education—as an institution and a practice that is supposed to foster humans—responds to environmental change. The aim is to explore how sustainability is formed in education, and to discuss how these formations relate to ideas of what education is, and whom it is for. This interdisciplinary study uses theories and concepts from cultural studies, feminist theory, political theory, and philosophy of education to study imaginaries of the unknown, nonhuman world in the context of education. The focus of the empirical investigation is on teacher education in Sweden, and more precisely on those responsible for teaching the future generations of teachers – the teacher instructors. With help from empirical findings from focus groups, the study asks questions about the ontological, political, and ethical potential and risk of bringing the unknown Other into education.Utbildning har globalt fått en central roll i strävanden efter att skapa hållbar utveckling. Initiativ tagna av såväl Förenta Nationerna som Europeiska Unionen, där utbildning och hållbarhet kopplas samman, vittnar om att frågor som rör miljöförändringar har blivit allt viktigare både på de politiska agendorna och i våra kollektiva, kulturella föreställningsvärldar. Men hur formas begreppet hållbar utveckling när det ska göras undervisningsbart? Vilka framtider möjliggör hållbar utveckling i utbildningssammanhang och vem inkluderas i begreppet? Frågor av kritisk karaktär är ofta frånvarande i tidigare utbildningsforskning som rör hållbar utveckling. Denna avhandling tar sin utgångspunkt i att frånvaron av kritiska frågor kan ses som del i en samtida postpolitisk inramning av miljöfrågor i såväl utbildningssammanhang som i samhället i stort. Studien undersöker hur utbildningsväsendet, som är en central institution i fostrandet av framtidens medborgare, tar sig an frågor som rör miljöförändringar. Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur hållbar utveckling formas genom utbildning samt att diskutera hur dessa formationer relateras till idéer om vad utbildning är och vem som ska utbildas. På så vis söker studien också efter sätt att re-politisera hållbar utveckling i utbildningssammanhang. Avhandlingen är tvärvetenskaplig och använder teorier och begrepp från kulturstudier, feministisk teori, politisk teori och utbildningsfilosofi för att studera vad utbildning som relaterar till natur- och miljöfrågor möjliggör. Empiriskt undersöks svenska lärarutbildare, som ansvarar för att utbilda framtidens lärare. Studien ställer frågor om ontologiska, politiska och etiska aspekter av att öppna upp utbildningen för det som ligger bortom mänsklig kontroll och kunskap.
Sustainable development as an area of knowledge
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Medina, Audelo Ricardo. "Imaginario Sociodiscursivo en la Inmigración Latinoamericana de Catalunya: Propuesta para la Gestión de la Diversidad." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/51515.
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La inmigración internacional es uno de los fenómenos mundiales más importantes, complejos e inquietantes en la época actual a consecuencia de su crecimiento y de los retos sin precedentes que afronta: económicos, políticos, sociales, culturales, morales, demográficos, ecológicos. Su estudio requiere ser abordado desde visiones diferentes pero complementarias. En este sentido, nuestra investigación tiene como objetivo identificar y analizar, desde una perspectiva cualitativa e interdisciplinaria –análisis del discurso, psicología social y ciencia política–, el imaginario sociodiscursivo de inmigrantes latinoamericanos en Catalunya, a través de un corpus instituido mediante el uso de la técnica cualititativa grupos de discusión, en el que reunimos a 53 inmigrantes latinoamericanos (en 9 agrupaciones) para que conversaran en torno a los objetivos, motivaciones de su migración, sus experiencias, opiniones y apreciaciones acerca de la sociedad de acogida, de los autóctonos y de los propios inmigrantes, además de sus demandas, anhelos e ideales en la vida social dentro de la sociedad catalana. Hallamos en el imaginario que la integración de los inmigrantes latinoamericanos en la sociedad catalana significa ser reconocidos y estar en las mismas condiciones de igualdad de derechos y obligaciones sociales, culturales, económicas y políticas con respecto a los autóctonos.In the current era, international immigration is one of the most important, complex and disquieting phenomenon world-wide. As a consequence of its growth, it confronts challenges in the field of: economies, politics, societies, cultures, morals, demographics and ecologies. The study needs to be discussed from different, but complementary points of view. In this sense, our investigation has the goal to identify and analyze, from a qualitative and interdisciplinary perspective – discourse analysis, social psychology and political science – the imaginary socio-discourse of Latin-American immigrants in Catalonia. Through an institutionalized sample, composed with the help of the qualitative discourse group technique, we united 53 Latin-American immigrants (arranged in groups of 9) in order that they alternately speak about their objectives and motivations of their immigration, their experiences, opinions and appreciation with regard to the chosen society, both autochthons as well as the own view of immigrants. In addition we discuss their demands, ambitions and ideals in social life within the Catalan society. We found in the study of imaginary that the integration of Latin-American immigrants in the Catalan society needs to be recognized and it should have the same conditions of equalities before the law, social obligations, cultural, economic and politic equalities with respect to autochthons.
Books on the topic "Social imaginaries theory"
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Social theory since Freud: Traversing social imaginaries. London: Routledge, 2004.
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Taylor, Charles. Imaginarios sociales modernos. Barcelona, Spain: Paidós, 2006.
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Mujeres e imaginarios de la globalización: Reflexiones para una agenda teórica global del feminismo. Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina: Homo Sapiens Ediciones, 2008.
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Amorós, Celia. Mujeres e imaginarios de la globalización: Reflexiones para una agenda teórica global del feminismo. Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina: Homo Sapiens Ediciones, 2008.
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Dibazar, Pedram, and Judith Naeff, eds. Visualizing the Street. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462984356.
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From user-generated images of streets to professional architectural renderings, and from digital maps and drone footages to representations of invisible digital ecologies, this collection of essays analyses the emergent practices of visualizing the street. Today, advancements in digital technologies of the image have given rise to the production and dissemination of imagery of streets and urban realities in multiple forms. The ubiquitous presence of digital visualizations has in turn created new forms of urban practice and modes of spatial encounter. Everyone who carries a smartphone not only plays an increasingly significant role in the production, editing and circulation of images of the street, but also relies on those images to experience urban worlds and to navigate in them. Such entangled forms of image-making and image-sharing have constructed new imaginaries of the street and have had a significant impact on the ways in which contemporary and future streets are understood, imagined, documented, navigated, mediated and visualized. Visualizing the Street investigates the social and cultural significance of these new developments at the intersection of visual culture and urban space. The interdisciplinary essays provide new concepts, theories and research methods that combine close analyses of street images and imaginaries with the study of the practices of their production and circulation. The book covers a wide range of visible and invisible geographies — From Hong Kong’s streets to Rio’s favelas, from Sydney’s suburbs to London’s street markets, and from Damascus’ war-torn streets to Istanbul’s sidewalks — and engages with multiple ways in which visualizations of the street function to document street protests and urban change, to build imaginaries of urban communities and alternate worlds, and to help navigate streetscapes.
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Modern Social Imaginaries. Duke University Press, 2004.
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Modern Social Imaginaries. Duke University Press, 2004.
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Elliott, Anthony. Social Theory since Freud: Traversing Social Imaginaries. Taylor & Francis Group, 2004.
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Elliott, Anthony. Social Theory since Freud: Traversing Social Imaginaries. Taylor & Francis Group, 2004.
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Elliott, Anthony. Social Theory since Freud: Traversing Social Imaginaries. Taylor & Francis Group, 2004.
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O’Neill, John. "Social Imaginaries: An Overview." In Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1–6. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_379-1.
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Hansen, Janne Hedegaard. "Social Imaginaries and Inclusion." In Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1–6. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_382-1.
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Zaldívar, Jon Igelmo. "Social Imaginaries and Deschooling." In Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1–5. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_384-1.
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Carusi, F. Tony. "Social Imaginaries and Schooling." In Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1–6. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_524-1.
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O’Neill, John. "Social Imaginaries: An Overview." In Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2176–81. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-588-4_379.
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Hansen, Janne Hedegaard. "Social Imaginaries and Inclusion." In Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2156–61. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-588-4_382.
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Zaldívar, Jon Igelmo. "Social Imaginaries and Deschooling." In Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2141–46. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-588-4_384.
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Carusi, F. Tony. "Social Imaginaries and Schooling." In Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2166–70. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-588-4_524.
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Lundy, Laura. "Social Imaginaries and Children’s Rights." In Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1–6. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_380-1.
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Lundy, Laura. "Social Imaginaries and Children’s Rights." In Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2131–36. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-588-4_380.
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Carrasco Gallegos, Brisa Violeta, and Glenda Yanes Ordiales. "Morfogénesis de una ciudad turística: los lenguajes arquitectónicos desde el imaginario internacional de lo mexicano." In International Conference Virtual City and Territory. Barcelona: Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.7605.
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Las ciudades turísticas intentan recrear los imaginarios internacionales sobre culturas determinadas, adaptándose a las expectativas que se tengan sobre el sitio a visitar. Los imaginarios son la realidad social construida desde los ciudadanos. A través de ellos las personas aprehendemos y explicamos las percepciones que nos formamos sobre los otros, los eventos y relaciones, así como sobre las obras y objetos.
En las ciudades del turismo emergentes, la construcción de los equipamientos turísticos, tanto públicos, como privados, hace tabula rasa de la ciudad preexistente, dejando de lado las experiencias culturales
locales, para preparar un escenario óptimo, que haga atractivo el sitio al público extranjero. En ese sentido los referentes culturales de lo mexicano, plasmados en la arquitectura, retoman elementos de
distintas regiones y momentos históricos, acordes al imaginario internacional. Esos lenguajes arquitectónicos funcionan como referencia de autenticidad del espacio consumido, validando la experiencia turística.
El objetivo de este trabajo es dar luz sobre el origen de las formas arquitectónicas –la morfogénesis- de una ciudad turística emergente. Es decir, observaremos los lenguajes urbanos y arquitectónicos, y la
relación que los diseños exhibidos guardan hacia el imaginario internacional de la cultura mexicana. Para ello, utilizaremos como instrumentos los recorridos que los turistas hacen para acceder a los desarrollos
turísticos, las imágenes expuestas en lugares específicos, así como el análisis del relato emitido por el turista en relación a la experiencia vivida. Nuestros medios de acceso serán las imágenes reales
(tomadas in situ por las autoras) y aquellas recogidas de los sitios web de las cadenas hoteleras y de las bitácoras personales (blogs) de turistas disponibles en Internet. Con estos instrumentos pretendemos
asociar los lenguajes plásticos del sitio con aquellos provenientes de imaginarios internacionales sobre la cultura mexicana, más allá de los de la realidad del sitio analizado. Retomamos a manera de ejemplo dos
puntos de vista: el del promotor inmobiliario y del turista. El caso de estudio es Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, ciudad que ha sufrido una fuerte conversión a las
actividades turísticas en los últimos diez años y cuyo auge inmobiliario, representa un caso emblemático del turismo en el noroeste mexicano.
Adelantándonos a manera de breve conclusión, podemos señalar que las imágenes montadas en el armado y diseño del puerto anterior cumplen la paradójica función asentarse en la memoria del viajero (crear una ciudad memorable y singular), a la vez que autentifican la experiencia turística, es decir, son imágenes congruentes con el imaginario que el turista se ha formado aún antes de iniciar su recorrido, ya sea a través de los relatos de otros viajeros o del discurso del promotor inmobiliario. Ambos disponibles con la facilidad de un clic.
Por otro lado, los referentes buscados por los promotores turísticos, están ligados, mediante la arquitectura y el urbanismo a la antigua arquitectura mexicana, de las culturas prehispánicas, las haciendas rurales y la arquitectura colonial, que poco o nada tienen que, ver con las actualidad de las ciudades mexicanas y mucho menos con el entorno regional de Puerto Peñasco. Sin embargo, ese tratamiento permite la creación de un ambiente "ideal" para el acercamiento a la cultura mexicana que los turistas esperan.
Al contrastar los puntos de vista de un viajero y de un promotor inmobiliario de esta localidad portuaria, daremos cuenta de la ciudad deseada y de la ciudad ficción, acercándonos de esta manera a la "ciudad
real", que bien pareciera la copia de las dos anteriores. The tourist cities intend to recreate the international imaginaries about certain cultures, adapting to the given expectations of the visiting place. The imaginaries are the social reality built by the citizens. Through them, people seize and explain their perceptions on others, on events and relationships, and as well as on
objects.
In the emerging cities of tourism, the building up of equipment, public as well as private, ignores the preexisting city. Cultural local experiences are left aside to prepare an optimal scenario that would make
the place attractive for the foreign visitors. In this sense, the cultural references for “the Mexican” are
captured trough architecture. They take elements from different regions and different historical momentums, according to the international imaginary. These architectural languages works as an
authenticity reference for space, validating the tourist experience.
The objective of this paper is to throw light on the origin of architectural forms –the morphogenesis- in an emerging tourist city. We will look at the urban and architectural languages, as well as the connexion that the exhibit designs keep towards the Mexican culture international imaginary. In order to do so, we will take advantage of the itineraries the tourists follow to get to the tourist developments, of the images exposed in specific places, and of the tourists account of their experiences. Our means of access will be
the real images (taken by the author of this paper) and those collected in web sites of hotel chains and personal tourist journals (blogs). With these instruments we intend to associate the place plastic languages with those derived from international imaginaries on the Mexican culture. As an example we
take into account to points of view: the real estate promoter’s and the tourist’s.
The case of study is Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, a city that has suffered a tough switch to the tourist activities within the last ten years, and of which its real-estate growth represents an emblematic case in the
Mexican northwest.
Bringing forward a brief conclusion, it can be pointed out that the array of images and the port design achieve the paradoxical function settle themselves on the traveller’s memory (creating a memorable and
singular city), and at the same time they authenticate the tourist experience. In other words, these images are consistent with the imaginary that the tourists have formed even before they began their tour. This recreation of the images is accessible through the stories of other travellers or trough the speech of realestate promoters (realties), both of which available with a single “clic”.On other side, the references seek by the tourist realties are attached to the antique Mexican architecture: the pre-Hispanic cultures, the haciendas and the colonial period, that have very few or nothing to do with the regional environment of Puerto Peñasco. However, that array allows the creation of an "ideal"
environment, expected by the tourist to approach to the Mexican culture.
Finally, contrasting the point of view of a traveller and a real-estate promoter, we will expose the desired city and the fictional city. In this way, we will approach to the "real city", which now seems the copy of the other two.
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De Souza, Lucio. "Imaginarios rurales: el modelo de afincamiento y representación social en la Planificación Rural del Uruguay de Gómez Gavazzo." In Seminario Internacional de Investigación en Urbanismo. Barcelona: Facultad de Arquitectura. Universidad de la República, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/siiu.6193.
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Entre 1934 y 1952 el Arquitecto Carlos Gómez Gavazzo desarrolla un enfoque de las problemáticas rurales de Latinoamérica y en particular de nuestro país. Ampliando la escala de las preocupaciones, pasa de problematizar la unidad de hábitat familiar del campo a una completa teoría sobre el modo de ordenar la totalidad del territorio productivo rural. Este decurso va acompañado de una formulación precisa de un imaginario radicalmente alternativo al habitual de los trabajadores rurales. Esta tesis busca probar que las condiciones del hábitat propuestas para el ámbito conformarían una red de localizaciones de pequeña escala, de alta densidad y equipada con buen nivel de servicios, es decir, un imaginario netamente urbano para la vida en el campo. Para ello se analizará el proceso de construcción de la problemática rural y se tomará por caso el proyecto para el centro colónico de Chapicuy de 1953. Between 1934 and 1952 the architect Carlos Gómez Gavazzo develops an approach to rural problems of Latin America and particularly in our country. Expanding the scale of the concerns, he goes from the unit family farm habitat to a complete theory on how to order the entire rural productive territory. This pathis accompanied by a precise formulation of a radical alternative to the usual imagery of rural workers. This thesis seeks to prove that the proposed habitat conditions for field locations would form a network of small-scale, high density and equipped with good level of service, ie a distinctly urban life in the countryside imaginary. For this, the process of building rural issues will be discussed and proposed for colonic center Chapicuy 1953 will be taken by case.
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Chavoya Gama, Jorge Ignacio, Humberto Muñoz Macias, and Hector Javier Rendon Contreras. "Identidades fragmentadas y espacio público; la construcción social de los barrios en una ciudad turística de litoral, Puerto Vallarta Jal." In International Conference Virtual City and Territory. Roma: Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.8007.
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En este artículo se analizan cuatro factores que integran la identidad de los habitantes en los
barrios o colonias de la ciudad turística y se retoma el valor de la calidad del espacio público.
En los últimos años, de la mano de nuevos procesos económicos, políticos Y culturales, en
muchos barrios se han producido cambios de fisionomía y de composición poblacional, de
actividades, y con ello ciertos imaginarios han tendido a desaparecer a la vez que surgen otros
nuevos. El espacio público destinado a las áreas de encuentro que han perdido el sentido de
identidad por parte de la sociedad es por consecuencia un espacio que deja de ser
considerado como lugar. Estos sitios conllevan a un abandono y al desperdicio del espacio
físico en el cual se encuentran, propiciando aversión de los vecinos y visitantes a éstos
espacios al mismo tiempo, se convierten en espacios degradados que la ciudadanía evita y
elimina de su imaginario urbano.
Dado este escenario, el presente trabajo intentara dilucidar a que remite esta “identidad
barrial”, entendiendo que la pregunta por la génesis de este tipo de identidad resulta un paso
previo imprescindible para luego poder analizar los discursos sobre su mutación o
desaparición. Con este fin presentamos algunos de estos cambios operados por el mercado y
el Estado y frente a los cuales, de acuerdo con los vecinos, la identidad barrial se ve
damnificada, sobretodo en pos ya sea del abandono o de la recualificación de ciertos espacios
públicos de cara al turismo.
El espacio público es el lugar de encuentros e integración social, producto de las relaciones
humanas, en el que se lleva a cabo un intercambio tanto social como cultural y recreativo.
Tales intercambios, son parte de las necesidades que deberá de abastecer la ciudad a la
sociedad que la habita con el fin de mantener a esta en un nivel de calidad de vida no solo
aceptable, sino que óptimo. Sin embargo, dichas necesidades no siempre son bien abastecidas
por la ciudad, al descuidar los espacios que con anterioridad han sido destinados para llevar a
cabo actividades encauzadas a satisfacerlas y generar cohesión social. This article describes four factors that make up the identity of the people in the neighborhoods
and colonies of the resort town and the value of the quality of public space is retaken. In recent years, with the help of new economic, political and cultural processes in many neighborhoods
there have been changes of the physiognomy and population composition, activities, and thus
certain imageries have tended to disappear while new ones emerge . The public space for
meeting areas that have lost their sense of identity by society is consequently a space that is no
longer considered as a place. These sites are abandonment and turn on a waste of physical
space in which they are found, leading aversion of residents and visitors to these areas at the
same time, become degraded areas that citizenship prevents and eliminates their urban
imagery.
Given this scenario, the present study attempted to elucidate forwards this "neighborhood
identity", meaning that the question of the genesis of this type of identity is an essential first step
to later analyze the discourses on its mutation or loss.
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Valentim, Juliana. "Participatory Futures Imaginations." In LINK 2021. Tuwhera Open Access, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/link2021.v2i1.111.
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The contemporary conjuncture of widespread ecological and social crises summons critical thinking about significant cultural changes in digital media design. The selection and classification practices that marked the history of slavery and colonization now rely on all types of nanotechnologies. On behalf of the future, bodies became expanded territory to sovereign intervention, where the role of contemporary powers enable extraction and mining of material, plumbed from the most intimate sphere of the self. This logic requires the state of exception to become the norm, so that the crisis is the digital media’s critical difference: they cut through the constant stream of information, differentiating the temporally valuable from the mundane, offering users a taste of real-time responsibility and empowerment. Thereby, this research aims to explore the dynamic transformations of the mediatic environment and their impacts on the fundamental relationships of human beings with the world, the self, and objects. It unfolds concerns around neocolonial assaults on human agency and autonomy that resonate from structuring patterns emerging from the digital infrastructure of neoliberalism and the relationships of human beings with the world. It disputes the imaginaries, representational regimes, and the possibilities of reality perceptions with universal, patriarchal, and extractive representations. This research also seeks alternative forms of media education and political resistance through its collaborative practice, pursuing an attentive and open-ended inquiry into the possibilities latent for designing new communication and information tools within lived material contexts: How might we represent invisible media infrastructures? How to produce knowledge about this space and present it publicly? How can these representations be politically mobilized as ecological and social arguments to establish a public debate? How can artistic sensibilities, aesthetics and the visual field influence what is thought of this frontier space? Finally, how can art, play and research intervene and participate? For this, the project involves participatory methods to create spaces for dialogue between different epistemologies, questioning the forms of ethical and creative reasoning in the planetary media and communication systems; for fostering the techno-politics imagination through playful, participatory futures and transition design frameworks as an ethical praxis of world-making; and for a reconceptualization of autonomy as an expression of radical interdependence between body, spaces, and materiality. The research aims to provide a framework for designing media tools, which incorporates core design principles and guidelines of agency and collective autonomy. It also engages with the transnational conversation on design, a contribution that stems from recent Latin American epistemic and political experiences and struggles, and the wider debate around alternative forms of restoring communal bonds, conquering public discussion spaces, and techno-political resistances through collaborative research practices and participatory methods.
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Garza Rodríguez, Fabiola Rosamaría. "Evaluación de indicadores socio-urbanos y estrategias de reforma para el centro de Monterrey." In Seminario Internacional de Investigación en Urbanismo. Barcelona: Facultad de Arquitectura. Universidad de la República, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/siiu.6153.
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Con la llegada de la industrialización, la ciudad de Monterrey comenzó un proceso acelerado de crecimiento urbano y demográfico. El trabajo que ofrecían las industrias aunado a la cercanía con Estados Unidos originó que miles de mexicanos del resto del país se trasladaran a Monterrey en busca de mejor suerte. A partir de los años sesenta y gracias al slogan de “la ciudad moderna” el centro comienza a experimentar un fenómeno de migración de población hacia la periferia, ocasionando al paso de los años que en el imaginario colectivo este centro sea visto sólo como un lugar de transferencia. Actualmente, es claro que el centro de Monterrey se encuentra en estado preocupante de deterioro y abandono por lo que han surgido diversas estrategias de reforma urbana que buscan mejorar la calidad de este entorno para sus habitantes, sin embargo, cuentan con algunas debilidades que les impiden ser del todo acertadas. La investigación se divide en dos fases. La primera consiste en analizar el centro a través de un sistema de indicadores socio-urbanos con el fin de obtener la realidad urbana, mientras que la segunda fase consiste en clasificar y analizar las estrategias de reforma y determinar si existe una correlación entre estas estrategias y la lectura real del centro. With the advent of industrialization, the city of Monterrey began an accelerated process of demographic and urban growth. Its proximity with the United States plus the work that the industries offered, made that thousands of mexicans came to Monterrey searching better luck. Thanks to the slogan “the modern city” on the decade of the sixties, the center began to experience a phenomenon of migration of population to the perihpery. With the years, this phenomenon made that the collective imagination of the society associate the center of Monterrey as a place to transfer from one site to another. Currently, it’s more than obvious that Monterrey’s center is deteriorated. This is why, the government has arisen various urban reform strategies to improve the quality of its environment. As everything, these strategies have some weakness that prevent them to be completely sucessfull. This research is divided in two phases. The first one analyzes the centre through a socio-urban indicators system in order to obtain the real lectura of this site. While the second stage is to classify and analyze the strategies of reform and determine if there is a correlation between these strategies and the analysis