Practicing and Placing Imaginaries

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.

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 ist Koordinatorin des DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2589 "Practicing
Place." Sie hat zu US-amerikanischer Audiolyrik Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts in
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