Webinar with Prof Bygnes

Ethnicity, Race & Diverse Societies Network

The Ethnicity, Race, and Diverse Societies Research Network Seminar Series

Please join us at our next seminar on Wednesday 15 December, 1pm (UK time)!Speaker: Professor Susanne Bygnes (University of Bergen)Title: The role of social imaginaries of equality in local responses to refugee arrivals in NorwayIdeas conceptualizing imaginaries and social imaginaries are widely used in studies of diversity and migration. According to Taylor (2002: 107) a social imaginary is something more than the information we need to make sense of and understand practices but represents ‘a wider grasp of our whole predicament, how we stand in relationship to each other, how we got where we are and how we relate to other groups’. Taylor identifies our commitment to the idea of equality as one of the defining features of the modern social imaginary. In this talk I will introduce uses of the imagined and the social imaginary in studies of diversity and immigration and draw on analyses from a larger study entitled Imagining and Experiencing the refugee crisis. I will foreground some common imaginaries that come to the fore both in efforts to include and when responding to fear or xenophobic voices in the community. I will also show how critical or important events that challenge or threaten the sense of who “we” imagine ourselves to be, are opportunities to investigate deep-rooted cultural notions that often remain implicit.The event, free of charge, will be held online, on Zoom. The meeting details will be sent to registered participants the day before the event.Organised by the Ethnicity, Race, and Diverse Societies Research Network, University of Sussex

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