Broschiertes Buch

Social Imaginaries

Critical Interventions

Herausgeber: Adams, Suzi; Smith, Jeremy C. A.

Beschreibung

Offering a field-defining survey of the topic, this is the first book to engage all the key figures in the social imaginaries field. It offers new perspectives on the productive tension between social imaginaries and the creative imagination, providing the first programmatic approach to the field as a whole.

Autor

Suzi Adams is a Senior Lecturer in the College of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Flinders University), Permanent External Fellow of the East-Central Institute for Philosophy (Charles University), inaugural Senior Research Fellow at the new Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies "Futures of Sustainability: Modernisation, Transformation, Control" (University of Hamburg), and a co-ordinating editor of the Social Imaginaries journal and book series. She has published widely on the social imaginaries field. She has recently edited the English language publication of the Ricoeur-Castoriadis radio encounter from 1985, with accompanying essays (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017) and is currently writing a monograph entitled Castoriadis and the Imaginary Element (Rowman & Littlefield International). Jeremy C.A. Smith is in the School of Arts at Federation University Australia. Currently Program Coordinator, Bachelor of Social Science, he held the positions of Deputy Head of School (2016-2018), Associate Dean Learning and Teaching (2011-2014) and Deputy Head of School (2007-2011). He has published his research in European Journal of Social Theory, Critical Horizons, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Atlantic Studies and Political Power and Social Theory. He is the author of Europe and the Americas: State Formation, Capitalism and Civilizations in Atlantic Modernity (Brill, 2006) and Debating Civilizations: Interrogating Civilizational Analysis in a Global Age (Manchester University Press, 2017), as well as a co-editor of two other edited collections. He is also a Coordinating Editor of the international journal Social Imaginaries (Zeta Books) and the Social Imaginaries book series (Rowman & Littlefield International). His current research work revolves around civilizational analysis and social imaginaries.

Produktdetails

• Social Imaginaries
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9781786607768
• ISBN-10: 178660776X
• Artikelnr.: 56976712