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Through the diverse cases represented in this collection, we model the different functions that the civic imagination performs. For the moment, we define civic imagination as the capacity to imagine alternatives to current cultural, social, political, or economic conditions; one cannot change the world without imagining what a better world might look like.
Beyond that, the civic imagination requires and is realized through the ability to imagine the process of change, to see one’s self as a civic agent capable of making change, to feel solidarity with others whose perspectives and experiences are different than one’s own, to join a larger collective with shared interests, and to bring imaginative dimensions to real world spaces and places.
Research on the civic imagination explores the political consequences of cultural representations and the cultural roots of political participation. This definition consolidates ideas from various accounts of the public imagination, the political imagination, the radical imagination, the pragmatic imagination, creative insurgency or public fantasy.
In some cases, the civic imagination is grounded in beliefs about how the system actually works, but we have a more expansive understanding stressing the capacity to imagine alternatives, even if those alternatives tap the fantastic. Too often, focusing on contemporary problems makes it impossible to see beyond immediate constraints.
This tunnel vision perpetuates the status quo, and innovative voices —especially those from the margins — are shot down before they can be heard.
Explanation:
Just from personal experience, I move from the city to a rural area. In the rural setting it took me off guard to have ppl. I dont know waving at me for no reason, if I had a flat tire, in the city, no one would stop to help or ask if I was ok.
There is a huge value in a rural setting by asking oneself "what if I were in that situation?"
Your surroundings reflects how ppl react in a crisis situation.. The answer is the rural person is more likely to help a stranger.
Representative Democracy........
The united states' govt is known as a representative Democracy.
The answer is B) the possibility of stage fright the night of the performance.
