Practicing and Placing Imaginaries - (Lettre) by Gustavo Gutierrez Hernandez & Ulla Stackmann (Paperback)

About the Book

What does Imagination do? How does it affect our reality and the places we experience? Answers from sociology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies.

Book Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Gustavo Gutierrez Hernandez (Edited by)
Gustavo Gutierrez Hernandez is a PhD candidate focused on Caribbean literatures at the DFG Research Training Group at Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. He holds a master's degree in hemispheric studies and a double degree in cultural studies and in literature studies and has taught classes on literature and culture. His research interests include diaspora and migration studies, Latin- and North American literatures and cultures, biopower and biopower in literature.

Ulla Stackmann (Edited by)
Ulla Stackmann completed her PhD in American Studies at Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Her project was funded by the Studienstiftung and examines the historical and aesthetic development of audiopoetry in the US, focusing on commercial and avant-gardist spoken word labels. She has translated Men Who Hate Women by the British activist Laura Bates into German and has published on postwar poetry, spoken word labels, and artistic communities after World War II.