Modern Social Imaginaries

Symbolic Communication in Public Protest Over Genetic Modification

Bloomfield, B. P., & Doolin, B. (2012) · Science Communication · doi:10.1177/1075547012469116 · Cited by 23

Imagining Pathways for Global Cooperation

Freistein, K., Mahlert, B., Quack, S., & Unrau, C. (2022) · Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · doi:10.4337/9781802205817 · Cited by 22

Seeing the Future Through the Socialist Past: the Works of the Radical Imaginary Through Migration

Manolova, P. M. (2023) · International Journal of Politics Culture and Society · doi:10.1007/s10767-023-09452-3 · Cited by 22

Circulation and its Discontents

Wark, S., & Wark, M. (2019) · Punctum Books · doi:10.2307/j.ctv11hptdx.15 · Cited by 22

Speculative Data Work & Dashboards

Hockenhull, M., & Cohn, M. (2021) · Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. · doi:10.1145/3434173 · Cited by 15

Making Sense of Our Working Lives: The concept of the career imagination

Cohen, L., & Duberley, J. P. (2021) · Organization Theory · doi:10.1177/26317877211004600 · Cited by 22

International students as labour: experiencing the global imaginary

Coustere, C., Brunner, L. R., Shokirova, T., Karki, K. K., & Valizadeh, N. (2023) · Higher Education · doi:10.1007/s10734-023-01118-5 · Cited by 22

Breaking out of conventions: How scenario planners can increase their reflexivity regarding societal imaginaries

Rutting, L., Vervoort, J., Mees, H. L. P., & Driessen, P. (2024) · Futures · doi:10.1016/j.futures.2024.103395 · Cited by 22

The multifaceted and situated data center imaginary of Dutch Twitter

van Es, K. F., van der Weijden, D., & Bakker, J. (2023) · Big Data & Society · doi:10.1177/20539517231155064 · Cited by 22

Charles Taylor's `imaginary' and `best account' in Latin America

Morello, G. (2007) · Philosophy & Social Criticism · doi:10.1177/0191453707074150 · Cited by 21

Higher Education as a Public Good in a Marketized East Asian Environment

Marginson, S. (2014) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-94-017-8822-9_2 · Cited by 21

Comment « pragmatiser » le champ de la valeur ?

Quéré, L. (2017) · Questions de communication · doi:10.4000/questionsdecommunication.11502 · Cited by 21

Imaginaries: The Ideational Foundation of Sustainability Transitions

Benner, M. (2025) · Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie · doi:10.1111/tesg.70003 · Cited by 20

Situating the tourist gaze: from appropriation to negotiation

Bandyopadhyay, R., & Ganguly, T. (2015) · Current Issues in Tourism · doi:10.1080/13683500.2015.1110118 · Cited by 20

Public Goods and Social Justice

Kohn, M. (2020) · Perspectives on Politics · doi:10.1017/s1537592719004614 · Cited by 20

The dynamic imaginaries of the Ethereum project

Ennis, P. J., Kavanagh, D., & Araújo, L. (2022) · Economy and Society · doi:10.1080/03085147.2022.2131280 · Cited by 20

A Place for Science and Technology Studies

Calvert, J. E. (2023) · The MIT Press eBooks · doi:10.7551/mitpress/14594.001.0001 · Cited by 20

To tell it directly or not: Coding transparency and corruption in Malagasy political oratory

Jackson, J. (2009) · Language in Society · doi:10.1017/s0047404508090039 · Cited by 20

Normalizing urban inequality: cinematic imaginaries of difference in postcolonial Amsterdam

van Gent, W. P. C., & Jaffe, R. (2016) · Social & Cultural Geography · doi:10.1080/14649365.2016.1197303 · Cited by 23

Practice Theory and Education

Lynch, J. (2016) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9781315640532 · Cited by 20

The Challenge of Eurocentrism

Kanth, R. K. (2009) · Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks · doi:10.1057/9780230620896 · Cited by 20

Processes of religious individualisation: stocktaking and issues for the future

Fuchs, M. (2015) · Religion · doi:10.1080/0048721x.2015.1024035 · Cited by 19

Floating Bombs Encircling Our Shores: Post-9/11 Rhetorics of Piracy and Terrorism

Engels, J. (2007) · Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies · doi:10.1177/1532708606288645 · Cited by 19

Popular Digital Imagination: Grass-Root Conceptualization of the Mobile Phone in the Global South

Oreglia, E., & Ling, R. (2018) · Journal of Communication · doi:10.1093/joc/jqy013 · Cited by 19

The Shifting Meanings of Popular Engagement in Swedish Society

von Essen, J. (2019) · VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations · doi:10.1007/s11266-019-00089-5 · Cited by 19

Found in translation: the global constitution of the modern international order

Heiskanen, J. (2020) · International Theory · doi:10.1017/s1752971920000317 · Cited by 19

Melancholic Freedom

Kim, D. K. (2007) · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195319828.001.0001 · Cited by 19

Crafting innovation hubs: Future cities and global challenges

Chou, M., Erkkilä, T., & Mölsä, J. (2023) · The British Journal of Politics and International Relations · doi:10.1177/13691481231191921 · Cited by 19

The European Green Deal and the democratic imagination

Machin, A. (2025) · Journal of European Integration · doi:10.1080/07036337.2025.2455686 · Cited by 19

Wacquant, urban marginality, territorial stigmatization and social work

Cummins, I. (2016) · Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work · doi:10.11157/anzswj-vol28iss2id226 · Cited by 19

The colour of destruction

Vigh, H. (2006) · Anthropological Theory · doi:10.1177/1463499606071598 · Cited by 19

A true coin of their dreams

Neiburg, F. (2016) · Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory · doi:10.14318/hau6.1.005 · Cited by 19

Circulating a fashion: Performance of nation branding in Finland and Sweden

Valaskivi, K. (2016) · Place Branding and Public Diplomacy · doi:10.1057/s41254-016-0010-1 · Cited by 19

Naturalizing people, ethnicizing landscape: promoting tourism in China’s rural periphery

Lee, A. K.-Y., & Abrahams, R. A. (2018) · Asian Geographer · doi:10.1080/10225706.2018.1505646 · Cited by 19

A New Scholarly Imaginary for General Psychology

Pickren, W. E., & Teo, T. (2020) · Review of General Psychology · doi:10.1177/1089268020901799 · Cited by 19

Drama, Desire, and Debate: Mass-Mediated Subjectivities in Urban Mali

Schulz, D. E. (2006) · Visual Anthropology · doi:10.1080/08949460600961232 · Cited by 18

Religious Pluralism Discourse in Public Sphere of Indonesia: A Critical Application of Communicative Action Theory to Inter-religious Dialogue

Kim, S. M., Banawiratma, J. B., & Sofjan, D. (2020) · Religió Jurnal Studi Agama-agama · doi:10.15642/religio.v10i2.1307 · Cited by 18

Culinary arts education: Unpacking and disrupting its master-apprentice pedagogy

Woodhouse, A., & Rodgers, L. (2024) · International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science · doi:10.1016/j.ijgfs.2024.100898 · Cited by 18

Introduction

Bosworth, M. (2010) · Theoretical Criminology · doi:10.1177/1362480610373219 · Cited by 19

Internationalization of Canadian Teacher Education: Teacher Candidates’ Experiences and Perspectives

Guo, Y., & Guo, S. (2020) · ECNU Review of Education · doi:10.1177/2096531120946045 · Cited by 18

How to Assess What Society Wants? The Need for a Renewed Social Conflict Research Agenda

Cuppen, E. H. W. J., & Pesch, U. (2021) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-73699-6_9 · Cited by 19

Cycling the city, re-imagining the city: Envisioning urban sustainability transitions in Thailand

Sengers, F. (2016) · Urban Studies · doi:10.1177/0042098016652565 · Cited by 18

From collective representations to social imaginaries: How society represents itself to itself

Gilleard, C. J. (2017) · European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology · doi:10.1080/23254823.2017.1409130 · Cited by 18

They Don’t Not Want Babies: Globalizing Philosophy of Education and the Social Imaginary of International Development

Jackson, L. (2013) · Philosophy of education · doi:10.47925/2013.353 · Cited by 18

Imagining cooperative tax regulation: Common origins, divergent paths

Widt, D. D., & Oats, L. (2022) · Critical Perspectives on Accounting · doi:10.1016/j.cpa.2022.102446 · Cited by 17

Streaming books: confluencers, Kindle Unlimited and the platform imaginary

Larson, C. (2022) · Communication Culture and Critique · doi:10.1093/ccc/tcac032 · Cited by 18

Introduction: Civicness in conflict

Kaldor, M. H., & Radice, H. (2022) · Journal of Civil Society · doi:10.1080/17448689.2022.2121295 · Cited by 17

Imaginaries of the Digital: Ambiguity, Power and the Question of Agency

Mansell, R. E. (2017) · Communiquer Revue de communication sociale et publique · doi:10.4000/communiquer.2261 · Cited by 17

Maps from Space: Latvian Organic Farmers Negotiate their Place in the European Union

Aistara, G. A. (2009) · Sociologia Ruralis · doi:10.1111/j.1467-9523.2009.00485.x · Cited by 17

Between Purity and Hybridity

Rajão, R., & Duque, R. B. (2014) · Science Technology & Human Values · doi:10.1177/0162243914532503 · Cited by 17

Causal Mechanisms: Lessons from the Life Sciences

Gorski, P. S. (2015) · Social morphogenesis · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-13773-5_2 · Cited by 17

Holistic eco-social imaginaries for a life-centered future

Waddock, S. A. (2024) · Sustainability Science · doi:10.1007/s11625-024-01564-9 · Cited by 16

Gated Communities in Law's Gaze: Material Forms and the Production of a Social Body in Legal Adjudication

Levi, R. (2009) · Law & Social Inquiry · doi:10.1111/j.1747-4469.2009.01160.x · Cited by 16

Living with diversity: Local social imaginaries and the politics of intersectionality in a super-diverse city

Raco, M. (2017) · Political Geography · doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.11.003 · Cited by 16

Managing Meaning in Ukraine

Bolin, G., & Ståhlberg, P. (2023) · The MIT Press eBooks · doi:10.7551/mitpress/14147.001.0001 · Cited by 16

Predicament and Pilgrimage: Hearing Families of Deaf Children in Mexico City

Pfister, A. E. (2018) · Medical Anthropology · doi:10.1080/01459740.2018.1540617 · Cited by 16

Between Normative Visions and Pragmatic Possibilities: The EUropean Politics of State Recognition

Wydra, D. (2018) · Geopolitics · doi:10.1080/14650045.2018.1556643 · Cited by 16

Identity, Power, and Socioracial Hierarchies Among Haitian Immigrants in Florida

Marcelin, L. H. (2005) · Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks · doi:10.1057/9781403982636_11 · Cited by 17

On the Politics ofImidž: European Integration and the Trials of Recognition in Postconflict Macedonia

Graan, A. (2010) · Slavic Review · doi:10.1017/s0037677900009876 · Cited by 15

Prison Media

Kaun, A., & Stiernstedt, F. (2023) · The MIT Press eBooks · doi:10.7551/mitpress/13761.001.0001 · Cited by 15

Collaborative Organizations for Innovation: A Focus on the Management of Sociotechnical Imaginaries to Stimulate Industrial Ecosystems

Hooge, S., & Du, L. L. (2016) · Creativity and Innovation Management · doi:10.1111/caim.12179 · Cited by 15

A Strange Love of the Land: Identity, Poetry and Politics in the (Un)Making of South Asia

Kaviraj, S. (2014) · South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal · doi:10.4000/samaj.3756 · Cited by 15

Capitalism, Modernity and the Future of Education in the New Social Contract

Dale, R., & Robertson, S. L. (2009) · Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education · doi:10.1111/j.1744-7984.2009.01164.x · Cited by 15

‘Queering’ and querying academic identities in postgraduate education

Maritz, J., & Prinsloo, P. (2015) · Higher Education Research & Development · doi:10.1080/07294360.2015.1051007 · Cited by 15

Introduction: The Arctic as a Globally Embedded Space

Keil, K., & Knecht, S. (2016) · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · doi:10.1057/978-1-137-50884-3_1 · Cited by 15

Tourism, Modernity, and Postmodernity

Oakes, T., & Minca, C. (2004) · Wiley eBooks · doi:10.1002/9780470752272.ch22 · Cited by 15

Faking, optimising and conceding to power: Social movement understandings of social media power

Blum, I., & Uldam, J. (2024) · New Media & Society · doi:10.1177/14614448241266769 · Cited by 14

Eating, serving, and self-realisation: food and modern identities in contemporary Indian women's writing

Daya, S. (2010) · Social & Cultural Geography · doi:10.1080/14649365.2010.488749 · Cited by 16

Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture

Owens, J. (2019) · Punctum Books · doi:10.21983/p3.0255.1.06 · Cited by 14

Equality in the City: Imaginaries of the Smart Future

Humphry, J., Maalsen, S., Gangneux, J., Chesher, C., Hanchard, M., Joss, S., Merrington, P., & Wessels, B. (2022) · Intellect Books · doi:10.1386/9781789384642 · Cited by 14

Creating Inquiry Between Technology Developers and Civil Society Actors: Learning from Experiences Around Nanotechnology

Krabbenborg, L. (2015) · Science and Engineering Ethics · doi:10.1007/s11948-015-9660-2 · Cited by 14

Debating Global Polity, Policy Crossing, and Adult Education

Milana, M. (2015) · Comparative Education Review · doi:10.1086/681906 · Cited by 14

Contesting access to power in urban Pakistan

Naqvi, I. (2017) · Urban Studies · doi:10.1177/0042098017705600 · Cited by 14

La hipótesis de la pedagogía postmoderna. Educación, verdad y relativismo

Castillo, X. L. (2012) · Teoría de la Educación Revista Interuniversitaria · doi:10.14201/8645 · Cited by 14

Les valeurs : quelles théories, quelles méthodes ?

Fleury, B., & Walter, J. (2017) · Questions de communication · doi:10.4000/questionsdecommunication.11484 · Cited by 14

The Undiscovered Country: Essays in Canadian Intellectual Culture

Angus, I. H. (2013) · Athabasca University Press eBooks · doi:10.15215/aupress/9781927356326.01 · Cited by 14

Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North

Publishers, O. B., & Habeck, J. O. (2019) · Open Book Publishers · doi:10.11647/obp.0171 · Cited by 16

You Are What You Wear: Clothing/Appearance Laws and the Construction of the Public Citizen in Turkey

O’Neil, M. L. (2010) · Fashion Theory · doi:10.2752/175174110x12544983515231 · Cited by 14

Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism

Calhoun, C. J. (2003) · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · doi:10.1057/9780230524187_6 · Cited by 14

‘Madmen, womanizers, and thieves’: moral disorder and the cultural text of refugee encampment in Kenya

Brankamp, H. (2021) · Africa · doi:10.1017/s000197202000100x · Cited by 16

The analytical potential of ‘affective imaginaries’ in higher education research

Zembylas, M. (2023) · Education Inquiry · doi:10.1080/20004508.2023.2223781 · Cited by 13

5G and the digital imagination: Pacific Islands perspectives from Fiji and Papua New Guinea

Horst, H. A., & Foster, R. J. (2023) · Media International Australia · doi:10.1177/1329878x231199815 · Cited by 13

Cybersecurity and the politics of knowledge production: towards a reflexive practice

Cristiano, F., Kurowska, X., Stevens, T., Hurel, L. M., Fouad, N. S., Cavelty, M. D., Broeders, D., Liebetrau, T., & Shires, J. (2023) · Journal of Cyber Policy · doi:10.1080/23738871.2023.2287687 · Cited by 13

Political Imaginaries in the Climate Movement: Youth-Led Groups Constructing Plural Views of the Future

da Silva, D. F., Carvalho, A., & Fernandes‐Jesus, M. (2024) · Sociological Research Online · doi:10.1177/13607804241282942 · Cited by 13

Semi-Secular Worldviews and the Belief in Something Beyond

Palmqvist, C., & Jonbäck, F. (2025) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781009452199 · Cited by 13

Next Generation Journalistic Norms: Journalism Students' Social Imaginary of AI-Infused Journalism

Aitamurto, T., & Boyles, J. L. (2025) · Journalism Practice · doi:10.1080/17512786.2025.2505950 · Cited by 13

La pedagogía ligera en tiempos hipermodernos: el homeschooling, las escuelas Waldorf y la nueva pedagogía ignaciana

Zaldívar, J. I., & Uceda, P. Q. (2018) · Teoría de la Educación Revista Interuniversitaria · doi:10.14201/teoredu3017594 · Cited by 13

Globalism, regionalism and nationalism: the dynamics of student mobility in higher education across the Taiwan Strait

Lo, W. Y. W., & Chan, S. (2018) · Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education · doi:10.1080/01596306.2018.1516198 · Cited by 13

Rupturing violent land imaginaries: finding hope through a land titling campaign in Cambodia

Schoenberger, L., & Beban, A. (2020) · Agriculture and Human Values · doi:10.1007/s10460-020-10156-z · Cited by 13

“New Engineering Education” in China: a national technological imaginary of the Chinese Dream

Koh, A., & Zhuang, T. (2020) · Asia Pacific Education Review · doi:10.1007/s12564-020-09651-z · Cited by 13

From visual pleasure to global imagination: Chinese youth’s reception of Hollywood films

Su, W. W. (2021) · Asian Journal of Communication · doi:10.1080/01292986.2021.1970202 · Cited by 13

No Space for Reddit Spacing: Mapping the Reflexive Relationship Between Groups on 4chan and Reddit

Hagen, S. (2023) · Social Media + Society · doi:10.1177/20563051231216960 · Cited by 13

Bioethics in the Making: “Ideal Patients” and the Beginnings of Face Transplant Surgery in Mexico

Taylor‐Alexander, S. (2013) · Science as Culture · doi:10.1080/09505431.2013.789843 · Cited by 13

Creation of social space through prayers among Dalits in Kerala, India

Mohan, S. (2015) · Journal of Religious and Political Practice · doi:10.1080/20566093.2016.1085735 · Cited by 13

Imagining the Internet

Finn, M., & Light, B. (2016) · Information Communication & Society · doi:10.1080/1369118x.2016.1153127 · Cited by 13

From Complicit Citizens to Potential Prey: State Imaginaries and Subjectivities in US War Resistance

Brissette, E. (2015) · Critical Sociology · doi:10.1177/0896920515582091 · Cited by 13

Soft Power and Hard Measures: Large-Scale Assessment, Citizenship and the European Union

Rutkowski, D., & Engel, L. C. (2010) · European Educational Research Journal · doi:10.2304/eerj.2010.9.3.381 · Cited by 13

The Future of Protestantism: Postmodernity

Ward, G. (2004) · Wiley eBooks · doi:10.1002/9780470999196.ch41 · Cited by 13

Lindsay Farmer: Making the Modern Criminal Law: Criminalization and Civil Order

Kennedy, C. (2016) · Criminal Law and Philosophy · doi:10.1007/s11572-016-9395-4 · Cited by 13

Ancient Near Eastern Perspectives on Evil and Terror

Kitts, M. (2017) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781107295278.010 · Cited by 12

10. Charles Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries Charles Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries (pp. 629-633)

Hanser, M., Callan, E. K., Corvino, J., Sabini, J. P., Silver, M., & Keller, S. (2005) · Ethics

Modernity and its Discontents

Angus, I. H. (2005) · TOPIA Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies · doi:10.3138/topia.13.145 · Cited by 7

Charles Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries Reviewed by

Ferguson, M. L. (2006) · Philosophy in Review

Charles Taylor

(2017) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-981-287-588-4_100082

Modern Social Imaginaries: A Conversation

Calhoun, C. J., Gaonkar, D. P., Lee, B. J., Taylor, C., Warner, M., & Books, Z. (2015) · Social Imaginaries · doi:10.5840/si20151112 · Cited by 21