PART II Challenging the Anti- Pelagian Imagination
59 THREE Empathic imagination and its limits introduction In this chapter, I explore what might is meant by the plurality and separateness of persons with regard to notions of otherness, difference and agency, and relate this to my defence in Chapters One and Two of value incommensurability, and the suspension of judgments concerning the comparative worth of people’s lives and values held. For many liberal egalitarians, distributions of material resources to the disadvantaged or marginalised often presuppose a common understanding or empathic connection
227 CONCLUSION Thinking big: the political imagination Matthew Flinders and Matt Wood Our aim in editing this collection was to be provocative and to open up a debate, and we appear to have succeeded. Specifically, we seem to have achieved the not insubstantial feat of provoking Colin Hay, who makes several abject criticisms of the collection. He is uninspired by Bob Jessop’s ‘neologistic’ approach to the topic, exhausted by the myriad of attempts at conceptual re-formulation, and somewhat aghast at the potential implications of our own discussion of Carl
Introduction In an interview in Chimurenga magazine, provocatively entitled ‘The Internet is Afropolitan’, Achille Mbembe is quoted as saying: ‘Technology is nothing without the capacity to make people dream. That is where the power of technology resides.’ 1 I believe that the imagination that is vested in the power of technology carries with it a re-imagining of urban futures. Clues as to how this future is actively re-imagined in urban practices can be found in the vignettes captured in this book. Throughout the three themes preceding this chapter, the
social work and the sociological imagination Stanley Houston One of the significant gaps in modern social work is the lack of an embedded ‘sociological imagination’: one that irrefutably draws the connection between private ills and public issues; one that debunks political rhetoric and deconstructs ideology. The connection between private ills (the suffering of a growing underclass) and public issues (as defined by the state) comes into sharper focus through the traditional Marxist idea that ‘base’ irredeemably impacts on ‘superstructure’. Applying this
Introduction What is the link between prefiguration and imagination? This chapter offers a conceptualization of the ‘radical imagination’ as the capacity to produce ideas and visions of the future that materially condition an increasingly uncertain present. Imagining the future is not synonymous with fantasizing; how and what societies imagine defines the horizon of what seems possible, and thus bears real consequences for our collective ability to act in the present. In this sense, the radical imagination is an essential element of prefiguration and
what Ariella Azoulay ( 2012 ) calls ‘civil imagination’, and hence also take part in the construction of ‘artistic citizenship’. In order to demonstrate this, the chapter first discusses what ‘civil imagination’ means for Azoulay. She defines this notion as the potential capacity to build relations of solidarity, partnership and sharing between people within marginalised communities, as well as between the latter and people living outside of them. Such relationships serve to unearth and reflect critically upon the structures, hierarchies and relations of power that
chronicles of the times’ in which they live, including experiences of the criminal justice system (CJS) and leaving prison (Carlen et al, 1985). We argue that women’s narratives can point to future possible trajectories and modes of doing justice with women, working against the grain of what Hudson (2006) calls ‘white man’s justice’. The participatory research that underpins this chapter is, for us, an example of biographical research as ‘criminological imagination’ ( Carlen, 2010 ) that enables us ‘to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within
171 Families, Relationships and Societies • vol 7 • no 2 • 171–86 • © Policy Press 2018 Print ISSN 2046 7435 • Online ISSN 2046 7443 • https://doi.org/10.1332/204674317X14861127314323 Accepted for publication 24 January 2017 • First published online 09 February 2017 article Emotions and empathic imagination: parents relating to norms of work, parenthood and gender equality Sofia Björk, sofia.bjork@socav.gu.se University of Gothenburg, Sweden This article examines how Swedish parents relate emotionally to norms regarding parenthood, work and gender equality
REPLY Realism and imagination: a response to Kelly Luke O’Sullivan* Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore This is a reply to: Kelly, Paul. 2015. “Political philosophy and the attraction of realism.” Global Discourse. 5 (2): 191–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2014.962357. Anglophone political philosophy in the last quarter of the twentieth century was domi- nated by the thought of John Rawls. When A Theory of Justice appeared in 1972, it seemed to contemporaries to almost single-handedly revive the field
