Political Imaginaries and Ideology

We live in highly ideological times. New ideological syntheses are emerging, blending older forms with contemporary domination and grievances – even fusing these together. This workshop reposes the question of the relationship of political imaginaries and political ideologies. It commences from the assumption that the concept of political imaginaries offers a more complex understanding of the creation and metamorphoses of political ideologies. Political imaginaries endow the world with meaning and institute representations of the political. By advancing understandings of political imaginaries’  transformations into political ideologies, the workshop will throw new light on key contemporary dilemmas: the future of democracy, the implications of authoritarianism, the consequences of populism, the remnants of utopianism, and the ideological articulation of political imaginaries of a world in crisis.

Coordination

Prof. Craig Browne, Sydney; Prof. Dr. Paula Diehl, Kiel