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Imaginaries: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. CPERC-Cesagen-Sociology Workshop
Date: 14 June 2010 Time: 9.15am - 5.15pm
Venue: Bowland North SR 2
9:30-9:45 Welcome
(Bob Jessop, CPERC and Larry Reynolds, Cesagen)
9:45-10:45 Crisis and Economic Imaginaries
(Chair: Anthony Hesketh, LUMS)
Bob Jessop (CPERC and Sociology)
Lived Experience and Social Imaginaries: the Case of Economic Crisis
Ngai-Ling Sum (CPERC and Politics and International Relations)
Economic Crisis and the Construction of Hope: the 'BRIC' Imaginaries (and the Case of China)
Discussion
10:45-11:00 Tea and Coffee
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11:00- 12:20 Territorial and Management Imaginaries
(Chair: Bron Szerszynski, Cesagen and Sociology)
Martin Jones (Geography, Aberystwyth)
Territorial Imaginaries: Analyzing the Wales Spatial Plan
Martin Pedersen (Cesagen)
Property Imaginaries in Cyberspace Politics
Anthony Hesketh (LUMS)
Pulp Finance: Making Discursive Sense of Kraft's Acquisition of Cadbury
Discussion
12:20-1:20 Lunch
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1:20-2:40 Scientific and Environmental Imaginaries
(Chair: Tim Dant, Sociology)
Maureen McNeil (Cesagen and Sociology)
Some Reflections on the Concept of Imaginaries and its Use in Science and Technology Studies
Larry Reynolds (Cesagen)
Sustainability and Technocapitalist Imaginaries
Bron Szerszynski, M. Galarraga and R. Ellis (Cesagen)
Climate Change Imaginaries
Discussion
2:40-2:55 Tea and Coffee
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2:55-4:15 Moral/Political Imaginaries and Deliberative Practices>
(Chair: Andrew Sayer, Sociology)
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Tim Dant (Sociology)
Moral Imaginaries
Michael Farrelly (CPERC)
Democratic Imaginaries
Isabela Ietcu Fairclough (Linguistics)
'Imaginaries' and the Cognitive-Motivational Account of Practical Reasoning
Discussion
4:15-5:15 Roundtable Discussion on theoretical and empirical issues
(Chair: Bob Jessop)
(Tea and lunch provided by Cesagen
Bar and/or dinner arrangement as required)
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Who can attend: Internal
Further information
Associated staff: Tim Dant (Sociology), Anthony Hesketh (Management Learning and Leadership), Bob Jessop (Sociology), Maureen McNeil (Sociology), Larry Reynolds (Sociology), Ngai-Ling Sum (Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR)
Organising departments and research centres: Cultural Political Economy, ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen), Geography, Lancaster Environment Centre, Graduate Management School, Philosophy, Politcal Economy Research Unit, Politics and International Relations, Sociology
Keywords: Imagination, Interdisciplinary