technology of imagination ( Sneath et al. 2009 ), understood as the social and material means by which particular imaginings are generated, which opens for a creative space in which it is possible to imagine the otherwise unimaginable, such as a different
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Poetic Imagination
Love and Longing among Syrian Men in Exile in Amman
Emilie Lund Mortensen
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 75–90 (16 total)
The Stuff of Imagination
What We Can Learn from Fijian Children's Ideas About Their Lives as Adults
Christina Toren
Through an analysis of Fijian children's essays about the future, this article explores ideas of sociality, personhood, and the self that are the very stuff of intersubjectivity and thus of the imagination, as this gives rise to the lived social reality that is manifested in people's ideas and practices. The material presented here bears on a single aspect of data derived from 75 essays by Fijian village children aged between 7 and 15 years old, that is, their constitution over time of a spatiotemporal orientation toward a view of generations to come. I use this example of spatiotemporal orientation to show how, seen through the perspective derived from long-term participant observer fieldwork, data such as these enable an ethnographic analysis of meaning-making as a transformational, historical process.
Memory, imagination, and belonging across generations
Perspectives from postsocialist Europe and beyond
Haldis Haukanes and Susanna Trnka
The last two decades have witnessed a phenomenal expansion of scholarly work on collective memory. Simultaneously, increasing anthropological attention is being paid to collective visions of the future, albeit through a range of disparate literatures on topics including development, modernity and risk, the imagination, and, perhaps ironically, nostalgia. In this introduction to this special section, we bring together analyses of postsocialist visions of pasts and futures to shed light upon the cultural scripts and social processes through which different temporal visions are ascribed collective meaning, employed in the creation of shared and personal identities, and used to galvanize social and political action.
The Feel of the Past
Sartre on Memory and Imagination
Kathleen Lennon
distinction which Sartre draws between memory and imagination. The article is in two parts. In the first part, I want to suggest that, in common with the distinction he draws between imagining and perceiving, the separation of memory and imagination is
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 67–84 (18 total)
“Mind the Gap”
Between Movies and Mind, Affective Neuroscience, and the Philosophy of Film
Jane Stadler
the representation and expression of emotion in film. My particular interest is in the account Smith advances of the nature of emotion and its role in relation to empathy and imagination in the film experience. As Smith contends, quantitative empirical
Lives and deaths of the imagination in war's shadow
Wendy James
There is plenty for anthropologists to explore in the vicinity of war, without actually doing ‘fieldwork under fire’ on the battlefield. This article, based on a presentation in 2010 at the EASA conference in Maynooth, reviews some recent studies of the longer‐term consequences of frontier insecurity and warfare for local populations. It focuses on work by Heonik Kwon in Vietnam, Mukulika Banerjee on the Pakistan–Afghan border, and Richard Vokes on Uganda. All these reflect on war as it is understood from afar, and the ways that resistance and response may take imaginative forms, including new kinds of violence, among affected communities.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Aug 2011
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 332–341 (9 total)
Elemental Imagination and Film Experience
Climate Change and the Cinematic Ethics of Immersive Filmworlds
Ludo de Roo
form of imagination that is rooted in our elemental being-in-the-world. As such, this cinematic form of “elemental imagination,” as I will call it, has the potential to enrich the field of cinematic ethics. 1 In other words, elemental imagination is
Sartre on Mental Imagery
Noel N. Sauer
“Image in the mind” is only a round-about way of saying “imagination.” But to infer from this that there is really an image in the mind … is to be misled by an analogical expression. — Thomas Reid 1 Sartre’s theory of mental imagery has long been
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 53–79 (27 total)
Girlhood as Storytelling and (Anti-)creation in Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle
Anna Szirák
adolescent Cassandra Mortmain's diary narration as the ultimate creational power of girlhood, in which storytelling and imagination mark her young self as narrator of both herself and of those around her. Cassandra, in her struggles for an authoritative
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 17–31 (15 total)
Exploring Humanistic Layers of Urban Travel
Representation, Imagination, and Speculation
Jooyoung Kim, Taehee Kim, Jinhyoung Lee, and Inseop Shin
production. By humanistic production, we are referring to the potentials of representation, imagination, and speculation that surround these mobile activities. Namely, representation can produce specific cultural-political meaning about physical movement as a