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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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01 Aug 2002
TL;DR: A detailed survey of Chapeltown's social spaces can be found in this paper, with a focus on the socio-economic and political aspects of the social construction of spaces and spaces.
Abstract: List of maps and tables xi Foreword xiii Preface xv Chapter 1 1 Introduction: the aims of this study Chapter 2 9 Chapeltown: maps and demographics Introduction: maps and impressions Buildings and open space: a brief history Leeds: ethnic population statistics Chapeltown: population statistics Occupation and lifestyle Ethnic segmentation and 'community' institutions in Chapeltown Caribbean groups South Asians White populations Conclusion Chapter 3 47 'We did not come alive in Britain': A brief history of migration to Chapeltown Introduction The migration from the Caribbean The migrations from South Asia and East Africa Indian (Sikh) settlement Pakistani (Muslim) settlement Bangladeshi (Muslim) settlement Conclusion Chapter 4 79 The concept of community Three dimensions of 'actual community' 1) Territory and its (non) representation 2) Theorising the social: conceptualising social relationships Marx: alienation and the social Weber: types of social relationship Modern sociology: relationships in 'mass society' 3) The politics of 'community': values and goals Community as a social imaginary Beyond 'community studies': a typology of subjective orientations Chapter 5 127 Chapeltown: territory and the social construction of space Introduction Maps and the sociology of space The discursive construction of space and territory in Chapeltown Early modern settlers Jewish settlers: discourses of the (white) Other Black settlers: the sexualised and racialised discourse of hell The economic construction of Chapeltown's social space Conclusion Chapter 6 161 Constructing 'community': forming social movements, 1972-75 The urban social movement thesis Caribbean-led mobilisations in the early 1970s The Chapeltown Parents Action Group: 'community' as racialised reform The West Indian Afro Brotherhood: 'community' as racialised reform Indian-led action in the early 1970s. The Sikhs: 'community' as religious reform White and multi-cultural politics in Chapeltown in the 1970s The Chapeltown Community Association 1971 - 3: 'community' as reform (inter-ethnic) The CCA 1973 - 5: 'community' as anti-racist socialism The CCA: an urban social movement? Ethnic identities Conclusion: the complexities of 'community' action Chapter 7 207 Violence and the competing politics of 'community', 1975-81 Introduction Reggae and Rastafarianism: violence and redemption The proto-politics of Bonfire Night 1975 The 1981 rebellion: social movements and the politics of violence Conclusion Chapter 8 241 Segmenting 'community': the decline of the social movements, 1981-97 Introduction The 1980s: processes of individualisation and ethnic segmentation The Harehills and Chapeltown Liaison Committee Professionalisation and individualisation Arguing for ethnic unity Ethnic segmentation
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26 May 1995
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a list of illustrations of imaginary spaces and their relationship to the act of writing and the notion of putting the spectator in the picture in a pictorial world.
Abstract: List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction 1. Imagination and imaginary space 2. Verbal hallucination: Rimbaud's poetics of rhythm 3. Reflections in black and white: Mallarme and the act of writing 4. Putting the spectator in the picture: Kandinsky's pictorial world 5. Between the lines: form and transformation in Mondrian 6. Universal exceptions: sites of imaginary space Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index.
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01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated national identification by applying psychosocial methodology to discourse produced in Russia during the era of "Putinism" (2000-2010) using interviews, surveys and media representations.
Abstract: This thesis investigates national identification by applying psychosocial methodology to
discourses produced in Russia during the era of ‘Putinism’ (2000- ). Existing literature on
post-Soviet Russia frequently claims that at the heart of the nation lies an absence of
symbolic functions or subjective formations with which Russians could identify. At the
same time, there has been relatively little empirical work that seeks to examine national
identification using a psychosocial approach. The study fills this lacuna by looking for
moments of identification across different texts, such as interviews, surveys and media
representations. Using as its starting point the conditions of possibility of post-2000
Russia, the study pays attention to societal shifts and disjunctures, examining how they
are reflected in discursive patterns and formations.
The dissertation’s empirical element consists of two parts. Through the analysis of
interviews and open-ended surveys, the first part documents respondents’ ambivalent
relationship with Russia and Russianness, which is characterized by splitting and
disavowal. In the second part, the study deploys a case study approach. The first case
study focuses on discourses of rejection and (dis)identification as featured in the Russian
public’s responses to Pussy Riot. It concludes that in their policing of Russianness and
the demarcation of features deemed undesirable as embodied by the group, participants
in the debate have found ways of both shifting the threat Pussy Riot represents, and also
of once again ‘enjoying the nation’. The second case study examines discourses that seek
to elicit identification in the populace via representational mechanisms around the figure
of Vladimir Putin. It is argued that the various strategies employed to activate leader love,
ranging from hypermasculinity to hyperrealism, seem to indicate a void at the heart of
the Russian president’s persona and, by extension, his national project, making them
profoundly unstable.
Overall, the thesis provides a rare empirical contribution to the psychosocial study of
national identification. It addresses the interrelation between imaginary and symbolic
identification and the pivotal role of fantasmatic processes therein. The identifications I
locate in the thesis are precarious and fleeting, speaking of the loss of a fantasy of
national greatness, and of an internalization of images and scenes borrowed from
literature and history. The study also offers a consideration of the implications of such
attachments for Russian society, thus providing further illustration of the
interdependence of the psychic and the social.
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