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Are our communities imagined and what happens once our imagination shifts?

Are our communities imagined and what happens once our imagination shifts?

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Sam Mace
Feb 08, 2024
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What does it mean to ‘imagine’ our communities? An appeal to imagination instinctively tells us this is something we merely makeup in our heads and cannot be real. Not unlike a young child who makes up an alternative world to the disappointing one they inhabit, the fantasy is proclaimed as non-existent and even silly. As adults we rarely praise imaginat…

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