Browsing by Subject "imagination"
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Abolitionist Futures: Black Cultural Imagination at the End of the World
(2021)My dissertation, Abolitionist Futures: Black Cultural Imagination at the End of the World, examines abolitionist imagination in the cultural production of black American writers, creatives, activists, and thinkers. From ... -
Click Here for Community: One ethnographer's journey through a mostly virtual world of fantasy, literature, sexuality and Harry Potter
(2011-04-27)This thesis seeks to answer the question “Why are there communities on the Internet that read and write sexually explicit fan fiction?” Part 1 moves through an examination of the history of the publication of the Harry Potter ... -
Features of imagination that contribute to value-based decision making
(2022)Humans make a variety of choices every day. Some of these choices are pretty mundane like whether to eat pancakes or oatmeal for breakfast. Others cost a little more, have a little bit of a longer impact, like which vacuum ... -
Fiction as Autobiography: Characterizing the Phenomenology and Functions of Memories of Narrative Fiction
(2021)People expend a great deal of time and energy telling each other stories of events that are known to be invented. These fictional narratives—emerging from novels, films, television shows, radio dramas, and other media—can ... -
Playing Incarnation: A Playful Pedagogy of Incarnate Imagination
(2019)Playing Incarnation recognizes that the imagination is at the center holistic learning, and seeks to present a pedagogical model that focuses on inspiring and training the imagination through models of play. The model arose ... -
Promising America: Imagining Democracy, Democratizing Imagination
(2009)This project elucidates the politics of imagination in the United States and interrogates the conditions of democratic imagination in particular. I evaluate the role of imagination in political theory and in United States ...
