We are thrilled to announce that our book, Practicing and Placing Imaginaries: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Conceptual Ideas, and Case Studies is now available. On transcript’s homepage you can download the PDF or get the printed volume.
The contributors to this volume explore the intertwined relationship of imagining and practicing from different fields of study (sociology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies), complementing practice and theoretical approaches with interdisciplinary insights into the entanglements of doings and imaginations. They build a bridge between sociological research and cultural studies and thus challenge perspectives which characterize imagining as an individual and solitary activity. Rather, imagining is situated and shaped by its placement in specific contexts and communities.
The collection tackles this relationship in individual case studies from a variety of fields exploring practices of imagination in different sociocultural and medial contexts. In February 2024, we hosted
the conference “Practices of Imagination – Placings of Imaginaries” that provided a platform to discuss this nexus from an interdisciplinary perspective. The event provided the point of departure for the collection and showed how the question of imagining and practicing productively builds a bridge between the humanities and social sciences. Both imagination and practices need to be placed to become graspable since they are embedded in sociocultural frames that shape them.
We would like to thank the editors Gustavo Gutierrez Hernandez and Ulla Stackmann as well as the contributors and those who have supported us from start to finish.
