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P24


Imagination as social practice in contemporary Cuba 
Convenors:
Rebecca Ogden (University of Manchester)
Patrick O'Shea
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Location:
UP 4.214
Start time:
12 April, 2013 at
Time zone: Europe/London
Session slots:
1

Short Abstract:

This panel explores the imagination as a social practice in contemporary Cuba.

Long Abstract:

No longer exclusively a site of fantasy and escape, the imagination has become understood as an organized field of social practices that involves the construction and negotiation of sites of agency and possibility. Images are exchanged, imaginaries are edified, and imagined communities are inhabited within increasingly complex and interconnected local and global processes. The imagination is central to the dialogical composition and reproduction of cultural narratives. In today's Cuba, narratives of mobility, belonging and morality (among many others) are in dialogue with notions of family, generation, nation and revolution through the social practice of imagination. This panel invites contributions that explore the multiple manifestations of Cuban imagination through contemporary contexts and practices such as tourism, new technologies, economic/ political reforms, international commerce, consumerism, migration, or through theoretical approaches such as narrative/discourse analysis, transculturation, collective memory, diaspora or transnationalism, etc.

Accepted papers:

Session 1