@article{1448670,
      recid = {1448670},
      author = {Fife, Wayne,},
      title = {Imaginary worlds : invitation to an argument /},
      pages = {1 online resource (vii, 154 pages).},
      abstract = {In this work, the author contends that we should create a  comparative framework for the study of imaginary worlds in  the social sciences. Making use of extended examples from  both science fiction and fantasy fiction, as well as the  living movement of steampunk, the reader is invited to an  argument about how best to define imaginary worlds and  approach them as social locations for qualitative research.  It is suggested in this volume that increasing economic and  existential forms of alienation fuel the contemporary surge  of participation in imaginary worlds (from gaming worlds to  young adult novels) and impel a search for more humane  forms of social and cultural organization. Suggestions are  made about the usefulness of imaginary worlds to social  scientists as places for both testing out theoretical  formulations and as tools for teaching in our classrooms.  Wayne Fife is Professor of Anthropology at Memorial  University, Canada and the author of Doing Fieldwork and  Counting as a Qualitative Method, as well as many journal  articles on heritage and eco-tourism, economic inequality  and education, play as politics, social alienation,  ethnographic research methods, and implicit forms of  religion. .},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1448670},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08641-0},
}