On Public Imagination (eBook, ePUB)

A Political and Ethical Imperative
Redaktion: Faessel, Victor; Curtin, Michael; Falk, Richard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this wide-ranging and multidisciplinary volume, leading scholars, activists, journalists, and public figures deliberate about the creative and critical potential of public imagination in an era paradoxically marked by intensifying globalization and resurgent nationalism. Divided into five sections, these essays explore the social, political, and cultural role of imagination and civic engagement, offering cogent, ingenious reflections that stand in stark contrast to the often grim rhetoric of our era. Short and succinct, the essays engage with an interconnected ensemble of themes and issues while also providing insights into the specific geographical and social dynamics of each author's national or regional context.

• Part 1 introduces the reader to theoretical reflections on imagination and the public sphere;
• Part 2 illustrates dynamics of public imagination in a diverse set of cultural contexts;
• Part 3 reflects in various ways on the urgent need for a radically transformed public and civic imagination in the face of worldwide ecological crisis;
• Part 4 suggests new societal possibilities that are related to spiritual as well as politically revolutionary sources of inspiration;
• Part 5 explores characteristics of present and potentially emerging global society and the existing transnational framework that could provide resources for a more humane global order.

Erudite and thought-provoking, On Public Imagination makes a vital contribution to political thought, and is accessible to activists, students, and scholars alike.

Chapter 18 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000747423
• Artikelnr.: 58391695

Autorenporträt

Victor Faessel is Associate Director of the Mellichamp Initiative on 21st Century Global Dynamics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is co-editor (with Richard Falk and Manoranjan Mohanty) of Exploring Emergent Global Thresholds: Towards 2030 (2017), and is managing editor of The Oxford Handbook of Global Studies (2018, Mark Juergensmeyer, Saskia Sassen, and Manfred Steger, eds.) as well as the four-volume Encyclopedia of Global Studies (2012, Helmut Anheier and Mark Juergensmeyer, eds.). He has been the general secretary of the Global Studies Consortium, a worldwide association of teaching programs, since its founding in 2007. Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Emeritus at Princeton University, and is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Orfalea Center of Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author or editor of numerous books, most recently Revisiting the Vietnam War (2017), Power Shift: The New Global Order (2017), Palestine's Horizon: Toward a Just Peace (2016), (Re)imagining Humane Global Governance (2014), and The Path to Zero: Dialogues on Nuclear Dangers, with David A. Krieger (2012). He is also the author of a book of poems, Waiting for Rainbows (2015). Michael Curtin is the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Chair and Distinguished Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books include Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor (2016); Distribution Revolution: Conversations about the Digital Future of Film and Television (2014); Reorienting Global Communication: Indian and Chinese Media Beyond Borders (2010); and Playing to the World's Biggest Audience: The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Public Imagination: The Challenge of 21st Century Populist and
Authoritarian Politics Richard Falk and Victor FaesselPart 1: Imagination:
Theory and Engagement 1. Rallying: On Imagination's Political Process
Julie A. Carlson 2. What Has Happened to the Public Imagination and Why?
Drucilla Cornell and Stephen D. Seely 3. Imaginal Politics in the Age of
Trumpism Chiara Bottici 4. Public Space: Thinking at the Edge of the Cave
Fred Dallmayr 5. Scaling Imagination: The Political Implications of Popular
Media Michael Curtin 6. A New Operating System for Humanity: The Power of
Narrative Kamal SinclairPart 2: Imagining Communities and Rights 7. Living
Together: Secularism and the Making of an Indian Public Sphere Neera
Chandhoke 8. How to Think About Populism Akeel Bilgrami 9. Magic of Public
Imagination: Transcending Public Evil Victoria Brittain 10. Trump, Public
Imagination, and Islamophobia Chandra Muzaffar 11. America's Divided
Political Imaginary Paul W. Kahn 12. Migration, Terrorism, and the Survival
of the Liberal Project Tom Farer 13. Building a Movement against Genocide
in Myanmar: Recovering Democracy's Promise Penny Green 14. Ambedkar and Du
Bois on Pursuing Rights Protections Globally Luis Cabrera 15. Why Should We
Care About Chineseness? Allen ChunPart 3: Ecological Imaginations 16.
Seeding the Future, Seeding Freedom Vandana Shiva 17. Ecological Publics:
Imagining Epistemic Openness Anna Grear 18. Re-imagining Politics through
the Lens of the Commons David BollierPart 4: Rupture and Revolution 19.
Ruminations on Darkness and Light Elizabeth West 20. Public Imagination as
Prophetic Legacy Catherine Keller 21. A New Axial Age: Opening and Disarray
Abdellah Hammoudi 22. Revolutionary Politics and Public Imagination
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi 23. The Great Gramsci: Imagining an Alt-Left
Project Dayan Jayatilleka 24. A Dialectic of Utopia/Dystopia in the Public
Imagination of the 21st Century Stephen GillPart 5: Across the Border 25.
The Future of National and Global (Dis)Order: Exclusive Populism versus
Inclusive Global Governance Ahmet Davutölu 26. The Indispensability of
Utopias: A Note on Davutölu's Vision of Global (Dis)order Celso Amorim 27.
Imagining the Right to Peace Marjorie Cohn 28. Public Imagination About
Public Affairs Johan Galtung 29. Imagining Global Governance: Alternatives
to Trump, Brexit, and New Wars Mary Kaldor 30. Politics of Compassion in an
Age of Ruthless Power Kevin P. ClementsCoda Victor Faessel