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American Imaginaries examines the diverse societies and nations of
the Western hemisphere as they have emerged across the course of
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Exploring cities,
capitalism, nations, nationalism, and politics from both
comparative and transnational perspectives, the book develops a
unique approach based on the paradigms of civilizational analysis
and social imaginaries. As well as taking a fresh perspective on
the Americas, American Imaginaries gives proper analysis of
multinational and intra-national regions and, crucially, the
civilizational force of resurgent indigenous nations. Ideal for
scholars and students of history, Atlantic Studies, comparative and
historical sociology and social theory, the book engages with
debates about modernity, civilizations, historical constellations,
and social imaginaries.
Chiara Bottici's influential work on imaginal politics has provided
a rich theoretical framework and incisive critical analysis with
which to engage the contemporary world. Rethinking the image as a
pictorial space of political activity located between the poles of
the creative imagination of the self and social imaginary
significations of the social collective, her work has provided a
critical new resource not only in the academy, but for activists as
well. This collection of essays by leading scholars debates
Bottici's account of imaginal politics from inter-disciplinary
perspectives, ranging from critical theory and political
philosophy, to psychoanalysis, and sociology. It provides the first
systematic and interdisciplinary engagement with the imaginal
field. The book is a must-read for all scholars interested in
debates on the political, social transformation, social
imaginaries, and the imagination, and will appeal to researchers
and graduate students across a wide variety of disciplines as well
as activists and politically-engaged readers.
This book explains the complex relations and entanglements of
Russia and its neighboring countries, an area that changed
dramatically after the collapse of communism and the end of the
Cold War. The chapters discuss how the strategic cultures of
different countries display common characteristics rooted in this
special geopolitical space that has been subjected to simultaneous
changes over a longer time. Shared historical experiences provide a
common ground to interpret outside threats. The spatial context is
relevant in this volume because the focus is on a geopolitical
in-between-ness. The position in between two ideologically,
politically or economically divergent entities affects the states'
security considerations, maneuvering space and policy perspectives.
By cross-examining competing Russian and Western influences
Miklossy and Smith create a persuasive context of regional
political choices.
Written by members of the Social Imaginaries Editorial Collective,
these programmatic essays showcase new critical interventions in
understandings of social imaginaries and the human condition. They
include a new comparative approach to theorizing Castoriadis,
Lefort, Ricoeur, and Taylor; the rethinking of the creative
imagination in relation to common sense; analyses of political
imaginaries in neo-liberal and constitutional contexts from
perspectives drawing on Gauchet and Lefort; and the taking up
questions of historical continuity and discontinuity in
civilizational worlds. In addressing pressing questions concerning
social imaginaries, the book advances the field as a whole. The
book includes a Foreword by George H. Taylor and an Afterword by
Craig Calhoun. This book is a must-read for all scholars interested
in social and political imaginaries, and will appeal to researchers
and graduate students working across a wide variety of disciplines
in the human sciences.
Written by members of the Social Imaginaries Editorial Collective,
these programmatic essays showcase new critical interventions in
understandings of social imaginaries and the human condition. They
include a new comparative approach to theorizing Castoriadis,
Lefort, Ricoeur, and Taylor; the rethinking of the creative
imagination in relation to common sense; analyses of political
imaginaries in neo-liberal and constitutional contexts from
perspectives drawing on Gauchet and Lefort; and the taking up
questions of historical continuity and discontinuity in
civilizational worlds. In addressing pressing questions concerning
social imaginaries, the book advances the field as a whole. The
book includes a Foreword by George H. Taylor and an Afterword by
Craig Calhoun. This book is a must-read for all scholars interested
in social and political imaginaries, and will appeal to researchers
and graduate students working across a wide variety of disciplines
in the human sciences.
Debating civilisations offers an up-to-date evaluation of the
re-emerging field of civilisational analysis, tracing its main
currents and comparing it to rival paradigms such as Marxism,
globalisation theory and postcolonial sociology. The book suggests
that civilisational analysis offers an alternative approach to
understanding globalisation, one that focuses on the dense
engagement of societies, cultures, empires and civilisations in
human history. Building on Castoriadis's theory of social
imaginaries, it argues that civilisations are best understood as
the products of routine contacts and connections carried out by
anonymous actors over the course of long periods of time. It
illustrates this argument through case studies of modern Japan, the
Pacific and post-Conquest Latin America (including the revival of
indigenous civilisations), exploring discourses of civilisation
outside the West within the context of growing Western imperial
power. -- .
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