Crisis, liminality and the decolonization of the social imaginary
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4464837 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Angelos Varvarousis (0000-0003-4300-6456, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 493-512 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2514848619841809 |
| OpenAlex | W2969345044 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 26 |
The decolonization of the social imaginary has been proposed as an important dimension of the transition towards a degrowth society. However, although omnipresent in the degrowth literature, the terms "social imaginary" and "social imaginary significations" have not been adequately explained. This creates a level of mystification that limits the analytical value of the degrowth framework. In addition, there is very little theoretical work on how actual social imaginaries can be decolonized and transformed. This paper first tries to clarify those concepts. Subsequently, it develops a theoretical framework for explaining such transitions of the imaginary. In developing this framework, the paper focuses on moments of crisis, since crises have been historically associated with change and transition. It argues that crises are important because they destabilize social imaginaries and open up a stage of suspension-a liminal stage-in which the rise of new social practices can facilitate the emergence of new social imaginary significations and institutions that can contribute to the alteration of the social imaginary at large. The paper draws on case studies related to the Greek crisis, the biggest ever faced by a country of the Global North after the Second World War
Degrowth · Liminality · Political economy · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Imaginary · Anthropology · Community and Sustainable Development · Critical Realism in Sociology · Psychology · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Meanings for the degrowth society
Mobilising Sense of Place for Degrowth? Lessons From Lancashire's Anti-fracking Activism
The socio‐ecological imagination
Reflections on place and trust in images of socio-ecological transformations
The rhizomatic expansion of commoning through social movements
Unsettling Feelings
Prefigurative planning
Storying Climatically Changed Worlds — Potentials and Pitfalls of Future Journalism
Cultivating collective imagination beyond crisis
Degrowth and the city
Doughnut economics, degrowth and decoloniality. New directions for the Doughnut Portrait method
The rise of the commons, cultural spaces and policy in Southern Europe
Imaginary Wor(l)ds
Mass animal starvation and the global development paradigm
Envisioning sustainable climate imaginaries through an “engineering fiction” learning experience
Geographies of degrowth
Maintaining autonomy
Commons
Illuminating radical spatial imaginaries
Climate imaginaries as praxis
Climate change in Norway
Anti-Crisis
Crisis or opportunity? Economic degrowth for social equity and ecological sustainability. Introduction to this special issue
Modernism and Charisma
Décroissance
The Imaginary Institution of Society
Degrowth, Democracy and Autonomy
Uneven Development
From Streets and Squares to Radical Political Emancipation? Resistance Lessons from Athens during the Crisis
Crisis and land dispossession in Greece as part of the global ‘land fever’
Tracing aspects of the Greek crisis in Athens
Crisis and continuity of capitalist society-nature relationships
Escaping from the economy
Rethinking Architecture
Coloniality of Power and Eurocentrism in Latin America
Imagined communities
Identity as space
Toward a Decolonial Feminism
What is Degrowth? From an Activist Slogan to a Social Movement
Social Imaginaries in Debate
Crisis
Reflections on 'Rationality' and 'Development
From the December Youth Uprising to the Rebirth of Urban Social Movements
Ours Once More
The Imaginary
Unwrapping solidarity? Society reborn in austerity
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |