The Imaginary

About: The Imaginary is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4807 publications have been published within this topic receiving 87663 citations.

Circulating Race and Empire: Transnational Labor Activism and the Politics of Anti-Asian Agitation in the Anglo-American Pacific World, 1880–1910

Abstract: In January 1907, labor leaders and activists from across the Pacific Northwest converged on the city of Tacoma for the annual convention of the Washington Federation of Labor. At the gathering, they discussed and debated issues related to the social and material welfare of the regions working class. The conference attracted, in addition to its U.S. contingent, a number of participants from across the border. One of the convention speakers, the Canadian delegate M. A. Beach, representing the Vancouver Trades and Labour Council, spoke on the collective experiences and aspirations of the region's work ing class, explaining how they transcended the boundaries of the nation-state. In his remarks, Beach told the audience that he felt "quite at home here, in your beautiful city, in fact have spent a number of years on this side of the imaginary boundary line. I say, imaginary boundary line, because I suppose from a national standpoint we are divided, but from a wage-earners' standpoint we are not divided." He claimed that American and Canadian laborers were "brothers working for a common cause . . . bettering conditions for the wage-earner," and insisted to the largely American audience that "what is good for you is good for me, and what is good for me is good for you."1 This imagining of a transnational working-class community was, however, not a state ment of universal solidarity but a racialized vision predicated on white racial unity. Beach asserted a transregional white working-class identity in explicit opposition to Asian "coo lie" labor: "We in British Columbia have existing conditions which are very dangerous to the welfare of the white wage-earners of this country, namely the Japanese, Chinese, and Hindoo," he declared. "They are a people totally unfit for the conditions of this coun try." Such anti-Asian sentiment was expressed in politics, especially in organized efforts to curtail and regulate Asian migration to North America. These efforts facilitated the de velopment of a racialized class consciousness among white Euro-American and Canadian workers in the Pacific Northwest borderlands. Beach continued, "We have succeeded in a

Just imaginary: delimiting social inclusion in higher education

Abstract: This paper explores the notion of a ‘just imaginary’ for social inclusion in higher education. It responds to the current strategy of OECD nations to expand higher education and increase graduate numbers, as a way of securing a competitive advantage in the global knowledge economy. The Australian higher education system provides the case for analysis. Three dilemmas for social inclusion policy in this context are identified: questions of sustainability, aspiration and opportunity. The paper argues that while social inclusion policy has ‘first-order’ effects in higher education, a just imaginary is required for more inclusive ‘second-order’ effects to be realized. It concludes that transformation of the current imaginary will require a more robust theorization of relations between social inclusion and higher education, to give new and unifying meaning to existing practices and to generate new ones. Short of this, social inclusion may be little more than just imaginary.

The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis

Abstract: C. S. Lewis was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably the most influential Christian writer of his day. Yet among his poetry, literary history and criticism, novels, and Christian apologetics stands a unique, delightfully imaginative children's series called "The Chronicles of Narnia", which has become an enduring classic. Alan Jacobs takes this imaginary world of Narnia that has captivated children and adults alike for years, and uses the themes and stories found within to explore the imaginative life of C. S. Lewis. Few things are more interesting to human beings than trying to figure out how another human being (especially a profoundly gifted one) works. Not just a conventional, straightforward biographer of Lewis, Jacobs instead seeks a more elusive quarry: an understanding of the way Lewis's experiences, both direct and literary, formed themselves into patterns - themes that then shaped his thought and writings, especially the stories of "Narnia". It is in the Narnia stories that we see the most of Lewis, and this illuminating biography delivers a true picture of the life and imagination of the Narnian.

Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500–1700

Abstract: Introduction C.Malcolmson & M.Suzuki PART I: MANUSCRIPTS AND DEBATES Christine de Pizan's 'City of Ladies' in Early Modern England C.Malcolmson Anne Southwell and the Pamphlet Debate: The Politics of Gender, Class, and Manuscript E.Clarke PART II: PRINT, PEDAGOGYAND THE QUESTION OF CLASS Muzzling the Competition: Rachel Speght and the Economics of Print L.Schnell Women's Popular Culture? Teaching the Swetnam Controversy M.Gough PART III: WOMEN'S SUBJECTIVITY IN MALE-AUTOHRED TEXTS The Broadside Ballad and the Woman's Voice S.Clark 'Weele have a Went shall be our Poet': Samuel Rowlands' Gossip Pamphlets S.O'Malley PART IV: FIGURATIONS OF THE MATERNAL AND THE FAMILY The Matter of Death: The Defense of Eve and the Female Ars Moriendi P.Phillippy 'Hens Should Be Served First': Prioritizing Maternal Production in the Early Modern Pamphlet Debate N.Miller Cross-Dressed Women and Natural Mothers: 'Boundary Panic' in Hic Mulier R.Trubowitz PART V: POLITICS, STATE AND THE NATION Monstrous Births and the Body Politic: Women's Political Writings and the Strange and Wonderful Travail of 'Mistress Parliament' and Mris Rump K.Romack Elizabeth, Gender, and the Political Imaginary of Seventeenth-Century England M.Suzuki Afterword H.Smith