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The Imaginary
About: The Imaginary is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4807 publications have been published within this topic receiving 87663 citations.
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02 Mar 2004
TL;DR: In this paper, Mitchell, Mitchell, Sallie A Marston and Katz discuss the making of the modern (trans)national subject and domesticity and other homely spaces of modernity.
Abstract: Notes on Contributors. Life's Work: An Introductionm Review and Critique. Katharyne Mitchell, Sallie A Marston and Cindi Katz. Part I: Education and the Making of the Modern (Trans)national Subject. 1. Imagined Country: National Environmental Ideologies in School Geography Textbooks: John Morgan. 2. Indigenous Professionalization: Transnational Social Reproduction in the Andes. Nina Laurie, Robert Andolina and Sarah Radcliffe. 3. Producing the Future: Getting To Be British. Jean Lave. Part II: Domesticity and Other Homely Spaces of Modernity. 1. Domesticating Birth in the Hospital: "Family-Centered" Birth and the Emergence of "Homelike" Birthing Rooms. Maria Fannin. 2. Adolescent Latina Bodyspaces: Making Homegirls, Homebodies and Homeplaces. Melissa Hyams. 3. Of Fictional Cities and "Diasporic" Aesthetics. Rosemary Marangoly George. Part III: Modern Migrants/Flexible Citizens: Cultural Constructions of Belonging and Alienation. 1. Valuing Childcare: Troubles in Suburbia. Geraldine Pratt. 2. Toque una Ranchera, Por Favor. Altha J Cravey. 3. Human Smuggling, the Transnational Imaginary, and Everyday Geographies of the Nation-State. Alison Mountz. Index.
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18 Jun 1982
TL;DR: The Imaginary and the Good Object in the Cinema and in the Theory of the Cinema The Investigator's Imaginary Identification, Mirror The Passion for Perceiving Disavoal, Fetishism 'Theorise', he says...(Provisional Conclusion) Notes and References to Part I PART II STORY/DISCLOSURE (A NOTE ON TWO KINDS OF VOYEURISM) notes and references to Part II PART III The FICTION FILM AND ITS SPECTATOR: A METAPSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY Film and Dream:
Abstract: PART I THE IMAGINARY SIGNIFIER The Imaginary and the 'Good Object' in the Cinema and in the Theory of the Cinema The Investigator's Imaginary Identification, Mirror The Passion for Perceiving Disavoal, Fetishism 'Theorise', he says...(Provisional Conclusion) Notes and References to Part I PART II STORY/DISCLOSURE (A NOTE ON TWO KINDS OF VOYEURISM) Notes and References to Part II PART III THE FICTION FILM AND ITS SPECTATOR: A METAPSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY Film and Dream: the Knowledge of the Subject Film and Dream: Perception and Hallucination Film and Dream: Degrees of Secondarisation Film and Phantasy The Filmic Visee Notes and References to Part III PART IV METAPHOR/METONYMY, OR THE IMAGINARY REFERENT 'Primary' Figure, 'Secondary' Figure 'Small-scale' Figures, 'Large-scale' Figures Rhetoric and Linguistics: Jakobson's Contribution Referential, Discursive Metaphor/Metonymy: a Dissymetrical Symmetry Figure and Substitution The Problem of the Word Force and Meaning Condensation From the 'Dream-work' to the 'Primary Process' 'Censorship': Barrier or Deviation? Displacement Crossings and Interweavings in Film: the Lap-dissolve as an Example of a Figuration Condensations and Displacements of the Signifier Paradigm/Syntagm in the Text of the Cure Notes and References to Part IV Index
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01 Jan 1997
TL;DR: Zantop explores imaginary colonial encounters of 'Germans' with 'natives' in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century literature, and shows how these colonial fantasies acted as a rehearsal for actual colonial ventures in Africa, South America, and the Pacific as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Since Germany became a colonial power relatively late, postcolonial theorists and histories of colonialism have thus far paid little attention to it. Uncovering Germany's colonial legacy and imagination, Susanne Zantop reveals the significance of colonial fantasies - a kind of colonialism without colonies - in the formation of German national identity. Through readings of historical, anthropological, literary, and popular texts, Zantop explores imaginary colonial encounters of 'Germans' with 'natives' in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth- century literature, and shows how these colonial fantasies acted as a rehearsal for actual colonial ventures in Africa, South America, and the Pacific. From as early as the sixteenth century, Germans preoccupied themselves with an imaginary drive for colonial conquest and possession that eventually grew into a collective obsession. Zantop illustrates the gendered character of Germany's colonial imagination through critical readings of popular novels, plays, and travel literature that imagine sexual conquest and surrender in colonial territory - or love and blissful domestic relations between coloniser and colonised. She looks at scientific articles, philosophical essays, and political pamphlets that helped create a racist colonial discourse and demonstrates that from its earliest manifestations, the German colonial imagination contained ideas about a specifically German national identity, different from, if not superior to, most others. For its thoughtful investigation into the role of imaginary configurations and libidinal projections in the making of social and political communities, "Colonial Fantasies" will interest historians, literary theorists, and cultural critics as well as a range of students and scholars interested in nationalism, imperialism, and the political unconscious.
175 citations
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15 Dec 1997
TL;DR: The Multicultural Imaginary: Problematizing Identity and the Ideology of Racism Revisiting an 'Internal Colony': US Asian Cultural Formations and the Metamorphosis of Ethnic Discourse Globalization, Dialogic Nation, Diaspora For a Critique of Imperial 'American Exceptionalism' and the Discourse of Civil Society Beyond Post-Colonial Theory: The Mass Line in CLR James Imagining the End of Empire: Emergencies and Breakthroughs as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Introduction Interrogations and Interventions: Who Speaks for Whom? Postcolonial Theory versus Philippine Reality Unspeakable Subalterns: Lessons from Gramsci, Cabral, Freire The Multicultural Imaginary: Problematizing Identity and the Ideology of Racism Revisiting an 'Internal Colony': US Asian Cultural Formations and the Metamorphosis of Ethnic Discourse Globalization, Dialogic Nation, Diaspora For a Critique of Imperial 'American Exceptionalism' and the Discourse of Civil Society Beyond Post-Colonial Theory: The Mass Line in CLR James Imagining the End of Empire: Emergencies and Breakthroughs Notes Bibliography Index
174 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of the formal principle of membership on the public and scholarly narratives of immigrants' presence in society is explored, arguing that "ghetto" is a root metaphor of German political culture and explores how this concept, which situates minorities in stigmatised ethno-cultural sites in the city, confines the frameworks and the terminology of immigration debates and the representation of immigrants in the social imaginary in Germany.
Abstract: This paper deals with the impact of the formal principle of membership on the public and scholarly narratives of immigrants' presence in society. It argues that 'ghetto' is a root metaphor of German political culture and explores how this concept, which situates minorities in stigmatised ethno-cultural sites in the city, confines the frameworks and the terminology of immigration debates and the representation of immigrants in the social imaginary in Germany. The ghetto trope of immigrant discourse in Berlin reduces the inscription of difference and belonging in urban space to a simple model of seclusion based on ethnic ties. This constructs a blindness to the transnational spaces of German Turks which provide an arena for the reimagination and negotiation of Turkish immigrants' sociality and belonging to Berlin beyond the given categories of ethnicity and community.
169 citations