Imaginative Horizons

Imaginative Horizons

Author: Vincent Crapanzano

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2010-08-15

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0226118754

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How do people make sense of their experiences? How do they understand possibility? How do they limit possibility? These questions are central to all the human sciences. Here, Vincent Crapanzano offers a powerfully creative new way to think about human experience: the notion of imaginative horizons. For Crapanzano, imaginative horizons are the blurry boundaries that separate the here and now from what lies beyond, in time and space. These horizons, he argues, deeply influence both how we experience our lives and how we interpret those experiences, and here sets himself the task of exploring the roles that creativity and imagination play in our experience of the world.


A Hundred Horizons

A Hundred Horizons

Author: Sugata Bose

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780674028579

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"Between 1850 and 1950, the Indian Ocean teemed with people, commodities and ideas ... Sugata Bose finds in these intricate social and economic webs evidence of the interdependence of the peoples of the lands beyond the horizon, from the Middle East to East Africa to Southeast Asia"--Jacket.


Imaginative Criminology

Imaginative Criminology

Author: Seal, Lizzie

Publisher: Bristol University Press

Published: 2021-01-20

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1529202736

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This distinctive and engaging book proposes an imaginative criminology, focusing on how spaces of transgression are lived, portrayed and imagined. These include spaces of control or confinement, including prison and borders, and spaces of resistance. Examples range from camps where asylum seekers and migrants are confined, to the exploration of deviant identities and the imagined spaces of surveillance and control in young adult fiction. Drawing on oral history, fictive portrayals, walking methodologies, and ethnographic and arts-based research, the book pays attention to issues of gender, sexuality, age, ethnicity, mobility and nationality as they intersect with lived and imagined space.


Uncommon Genius

Uncommon Genius

Author: Denise Shekerjian

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1991-02-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0140109862

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Drawing on interviews with 40 winners of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship—the so-called "genius awards"—the insightful study throws fresh light on the creative process.


Hemp Horizons

Hemp Horizons

Author: John Roulac

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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Hemp is the world's most versatile fibre. Roulac traces its historical usage and examines its future. B/W illlustrations.


Lola Shapes the Sky

Lola Shapes the Sky

Author: Wendy Greenley

Publisher: The Creative Company/Creative Editions

Published: 2022-11-28

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1684522366

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A cloud with a mind of her own and a gift for making awe-inspiring shapes encourages her friends to go beyond their practical functions and expand their imaginative horizons.


Creative Approaches to Planning and Local Development

Creative Approaches to Planning and Local Development

Author: Abdelillah Hamdouch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-15

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1317158385

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This book project highlights creative approaches to planning and local development. The dynamic complexity, diversity and fluidity which characterize contemporary society represent challenges for planning and development endeavours. While research and policy work has extensively focused on large cities and on metropolitan regions, there has been relatively little work on ‘smaller places’. This book shows that if these new challenges affect all places and regions, small and medium-sized towns (SMSTs) are suffering many specific problems that call imperatively for the design and implementation of very imaginative, creative approaches to planning and local development. What could enhance creativity in local development and planning? Is it possible to talk about creative capacity building at the level of a town that might release imaginative and innovative activities? Under what local and non-local conditions is creativity being initiated and flourishing? What are the major obstacles and in what way can these be contained in order to safeguard pockets of creative action? Interdisciplinary and with case studies from France, Norway and other European countries, this volume presents a wide range of approaches and territorial contexts of small cities and towns in which spatial dynamics and the consequences of the city-region for urban planning theory and practice in Europe are highlighted, with a special focus on the challenges for - and understanding of - planning and development of SMSTs. It provides a significant body of critical, comparative and contextual perspectives on the quest for urban sustainability and resilience in SMSTs, therefore emphasizing collaborative and potentially innovative approaches that can be detected, but also the shortcomings, pitfalls and 'traps' that can lie behind the approaches aimed at concerting ecological, economic, and socio-cultural concerns, and the discourses promoting them.


Speculative Horizons

Speculative Horizons

Author: Patrick St-Denis

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781596063365

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A collection of five pieces of speculative fiction edited by Patrick St-Denis.


Handbook of Imagination and Culture

Handbook of Imagination and Culture

Author: Tania Zittoun

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-09-01

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0190468734

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Imagination allows individuals and groups to think beyond the here-and-now, to envisage alternatives, to create parallel worlds, and to mentally travel through time. Imagination is both extremely personal (for example, people imagine unique futures for themselves) and deeply social, as our imagination is fed with media and other shared representations. As a result, imagination occupies a central position within the life of mind and society. Expanding the boundaries of disciplinary approaches, the Handbook of Imagination and Culture expertly illustrates this core role of imagination in the development of children, adolescents, adults, and older persons today. Bringing together leading scholars in sociocultural psychology and neighboring disciplines from around the world, this edited volume guides readers towards a much deeper understanding of the conditions of imagining, its resources, its constraints, and the consequences it has on different groups of people in different domains of society. Summarily, this Handbook places imagination at the center, and offers readers new ways to examine old questions regarding the possibility of change, development, and innovation in modern society.


Tuhami

Tuhami

Author: Vincent Crapanzano

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2013-03-15

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 022619146X

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Tuhami is an illiterate Moroccan tilemaker who believes himself married to a camel-footed she-demon. A master of magic and a superb story-teller, Tuhami lives in a dank, windowless hovel near the kiln where he works. Nightly he suffers visitations from the demons and saints who haunt his life, and he seeks, with crippling ambivalence, liberation from 'A'isha Qandisha, the she-demon. In a sensitive and bold experiment in interpretive ethnography, Crapanzano presents Tuhami's bizarre account of himself and his world. In so doing, Crapanzano draws on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and symbolism to reflect upon the nature of reality and truth and to probe the limits of anthropology itself. Tuhami has become one of the most important and widely cited representatives of a new understanding of the whole discipline of anthropology.