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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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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: The European Imaginary: Media Fictions, Democracy, and Cultural Identities as discussed by the authors is an example of such a model and it is the case of the European Cultural Journal Eurozine.
Abstract: Introduction - Page 17 - Ib Bondebjerg and Peter Madsen Chapter 1: 'The Political Economy of the Media at the Root of the EU's Democracy Deficit' - Page 25 - Sophia Kaitatzi-Whitlock Chapter 2: 'Media: the Unknown Player in European Intergration' - Page 49 - Hans Jorg Trenz Chapter 3: 'Social Networks and the European Public Sphere' - Page 65 - Hannu Nieminen Chapter 4: 'Journalistic Freedom and Media Pluralism in the Public Spheres of Europe: Does the European Union Play a Role?' - Page 83 - Deirdre Kevin Chapter 5: 'The Berlusconi Case: Mass Media and Politics in Italy' - Page 107 - Paolo Mancini Chapter 6: 'European Journalism and the European Public Sphere' - Page 121 - Peter Golding Chapter 7: 'Telvision News Has Not (Yet) Left the Nation State: Reflections on European Integration in the News' - Page 135 - Claes de Vreese Chapter 8: 'The Europeanization of the Danish News Media: Theorizing the News Media as both National and Transnational Political Institution' - Page 143 - Mark A rsten Chapter 9: 'Just Another Missed Opportunity in the Development of a European Public Sphere: The European Constitutional Debate in German, British and French Broadsheets' - Page 157 - Regina Vetters Chapter 10: 'Rare Birds: The 'Why' in Comparative Media Studies. Nordic Ideal Types of Good European Journalism' - Page 177 - Vanni Tjernstrom Chapter 11: 'The Cultural Dimension of Democracy' - Page 197 - Jostein Gripsrud Chapter 12: 'The European Imaginary: Media Fictions, Democracy and Cultural Identities' - Page 215 - Ib Bondebjerg Chapter 13: 'Writing the New European Identities? The Case of the European Cultural Journal Eurozine' - Page 237 - Tessa Hauswedell Chapter 14: 'Intellectuals, Media and the Public Sphere' - Page 253 - Peter Madsen Chapter 15: '(De)constructing European Citizenship? Political Mobilization and Collective Identity Formation Among Immigrants in Sweden and Spain' - Page 267 - Zenia Hellgren Chapter 16: 'Misrecognitions: Associative and Communalist Visions in EU Media Policy and Regulation' - Page 287 - Richard Collins Chapter 17: 'Between Supra-national Competition and National Cultures? Emerging EU Policy and Public Broadcasters' Online Services' - Page 307 - Hallvard Moe Chapter 18: 'The Effects of the Membership Processes of the European Union and Media Policies in Turkey' - Page 325 - Mine Gencel Bek Chapter 19: 'Re-conceptualizing Legitimacy: The Role of Communication Rights in the Democratization of the European Union' - Page 341 - Julia Hoffmann

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TL;DR: This essay argues that through testimonial discourse converts construct social reality as an answer to the impossibility of ‘the real’ in their performative discursive practice.
Abstract: Although the spiritual vibration of conversion can be felt (by the curious outsider) through what conversion performers say in their testimonial discourse, what transforms the convert ‘on stage’ into a ‘new being’ and what is ‘the real’ (le reel) in conversion performance remain unclear. An important question in this connection is, What is ‘real’ in a conversion representation, both with respect to the convert’s interaction with the audience and to the construction of social reality? Following Lacan’s tripartite register of the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real, in this essay I argue that through testimonial discourse converts construct social reality as an answer to the impossibility of ‘the real’ in their performative discursive practice. In the first part, I question the constructed nature of testimonial representations—as well as some academic knowledge production that has governed conversion research in the last few decades—and how these representations encourage ‘outsiders’ to read the narrative repertoire as a negation or mirroring ‘the real’ of the conversion experience. In the second part, I apply Roland Barthes’ analytic reflections on photography to conversion research, especially the notions of the studium (the common ground of cultural meanings) and the punctum (a personal experience that inspires private meaning). This brings me to a number of theorists (mostly never used in the field of religious conversion)—Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, and Slavoj Žižek—who are important to the perspective that is developed in this essay.

16 citations

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17 Apr 2020
TL;DR: In this article, cultural studies scholar Angela McRobbie develops a much needed feminist account of neoliberalism, highlighting the ways in which popular culture and the media actively produce and sustain the cultural imaginary for social polarization, and how there is substantial pressure on women not just to be employed, but to prioritize working life.
Abstract: In this short and provocative book, cultural studies scholar Angela McRobbie develops a much-needed feminist account of neoliberalism. Highlighting the ways in which popular culture and the media actively produce and sustain the cultural imaginary for social polarization, she shows how there is substantial pressure on women not just to be employed, but to prioritize working life. She fiercely challenges the media gatekeepers who shape contemporary womanhood by means of exposure and public shaming, and pays particular attention to the endemic nature of anti-welfarism as it is addressed to women, thereby reducing the scope for feminist solidarity. In this theoretically rich and deep analysis of current cultural processes, McRobbie introduces a series of concepts including 'visual media governmentality' and the urging of women into work as 'contraceptive employment'. Foregrounding a triage of ideas as the 'perfect-imperfect-resilience' McRobbie conveys some of the key means by which consumer capitalism attempts to manage the threats posed by the new feminisms. She proposes that 'resilience' emerges as a compromise, as hard-edged neoliberalism proffers the option of a return to liberal feminism. A lively and devastating critique, Feminism and the Politics of 'Resilience' offers a much-needed wake-up call. It is essential reading for students and scholars of cultural studies, media, sociology, and women's and gender studies.

16 citations

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23 Jan 1997-TDR
TL;DR: The Parallel Theatre Movement, or "Street Theatre" in the province of the Punjab, Pakistan, emerged during the repressive era of General Zia-ul-Haque's Martial Law regime (1979-1989).
Abstract: The Parallel Theatre Movement, or "Street Theatre" as it is loosely called, in the province of the Punjab, Pakistan, emerged during the repressive era of General Zia-ul-Haque's Martial Law regime (1979-1989).' This form of theatre raises several questions about the nature of the relationship between the Pakistani "Islamic" state and society. The most pertinent of these for my project is the question of the state's coercive relationship with its female citizenry. Related to this is the issue of male-female relationships in the society and how these relationships are complicated by class stratifications that inevitably affect the way gendered politics (and policies) actually get played out. There is also the increasingly vexed issue of national versus ethnic identity-a conflict which is reflected through the language politics of the theatre groups; linguistic choices reveal the groups' conflicting and often self-contradictory ideological stands on this question. In choosing to focus on such an area of inquiry for a (so-called) postcolonial project, I am seeking to re-site the question "Who decolonizes?" that Gayatri Spivak insists we confront in her afterward to Imaginary Maps (1995). This question forces us to reevaluate "the task of the post-colonial," which, as Spivak sees it-and I agree-ought to involve a rigorous moving away from conflating "Eurocentric migrancy with post-coloniality" (Spivak 1995:203). In other words, let us, as postcolonial critics and scholars, turn our attention to "other sites of enunciation," as Walter Mignolo has urged (1993:120). This "turning elsewhere" is really a turning inward toward the postcolonial nationstate in order to cast a critical gaze at a decolonizing process that has simultaneously constructed a normative constitutional subject of the "new" nation (Spivak 1995:2o3): in Pakistan's case, the middle class, urban and male, or the upper class, feudal and male. Within the last decade or so, Ajoka (the major Parallel Theatre group in Pakistan) as well as its regional spin-offs, notably

16 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023563
20221,296
2021145
2020180
2019178
2018199