Imaginary worlds : invitation to an argument / Wayne Fife.
2022
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Title
Imaginary worlds : invitation to an argument / Wayne Fife.
Author
Fife, Wayne, author.
ISBN
9783031086410 (electronic bk.)
3031086414 (electronic bk.)
9783031086403
3031086406
3031086414 (electronic bk.)
9783031086403
3031086406
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vii, 154 pages).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-08641-0 doi
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H62
Dewey Decimal Classification
300.72
Summary
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. .
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 19, 2022).
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Palgrave studies in literary anthropology.
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Table of Contents
Chapter One: Imaginary Worlds in a Comparative Framework.-Chapter Two: Steampunk as Stealth Politics
Chapter Three: The Perils of Belief Fantasy Fiction as Narrative Theology
Chapter Four: Androids as Slaves Lessons from the Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick
Chapter Five: Imaginary Worlds and Contemporary Alienation.
Chapter Three: The Perils of Belief Fantasy Fiction as Narrative Theology
Chapter Four: Androids as Slaves Lessons from the Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick
Chapter Five: Imaginary Worlds and Contemporary Alienation.