Podcasts about social imaginary

Jack Franicevich, a parish priest in the Anglican Church of North America, joins the podcast to discuss his book, Sunday: Keeping Christian Time (Athanasius Press, 2023), that focuses on the nature of the Sabbath, what it means in the biblical narrative, and how the social imaginary of Christians might be formed by a deep understanding of the Sabbath. What does the Sabbath mean for rest? For the hope of Christians? For the rebuke of anti-God powers? All this and more on this new episode.

This passage explains the reasons, means, and goal of perpetuating the redeemed identity the LORD gave Israel, which helps us understand our redeemed identity in Christ.

Karen Swallow Prior joins the podcast to discuss her recent book The Evangelical Imagination. We discuss the role the imagination—both of the individual and the society at large (i.e. the social imaginary—plays in shaping the church, the difference between worldview and imagination, what it means for us to be enculturated Christians, modernity, literature, and much more!

Join us for this lyrical yet sobering conversation between psychoanalyst, filmmaker, and professor, Dr. Ricardo (Rico) Ainslie and anthropologist, professor and author, Dr. Angela Garcia. Through offering us an intimate look into the communities they work with and belong to, our guests bring us into the lives of those impacted by the historical trauma of land loss, displacement, and suffering. Using an ethnographic approach that is rooted in subject-centered ethics, our guests share clinical wisdom rooted in identifying the absence of institutional recovery programs as the site of community care. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What role does the imagination play in shaping the identity of a culture? Our collective imagination provides metaphors, stories and symbols that bind people groups together and create a common understanding of the world. But what happens when those metaphors no longer carry the same meanings? Or even worse, when those stories and metaphors no longer create unity but bring division and harm? Professor and writer Karen Swallow Prior addresses these concerns in her book The Evangelical Imagination. She tells us, contemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis - and a lot of bad press. In this episode, Karen discusses what Charles Taylor called ‘A social imaginary' and how artists and creatives can respond to the evangelical crisis of identity and bring healing to our cultural fractures. Hear an additional interview segment with Karen on Julian of NorwichJoin our creative collectiveKaren's WebsiteFollow us on Instagram

It is increasingly accepted that we cannot take nature for granted. But do we even know what nature is? Catherine Oliver brings her expertise in geography and sociology – plus her love of chickens – to the latest Uncommon Sense to reflect on what's at stake in how we think of and relate to “nature” – and how we might do better. Along the way, she considers what happens when neoliberalism shapes what “good” nature is – whether in regeneration or meddling with metabolisms.Alexis and Rosie also ask Catherine: how might the chicken be “thriving” yet also “extinct”? What potential is there in speaking of the “more than” and “beyond” human? And what responsibility do social scientists have for the age-old binaries that split humans from wider nature?Plus: a celebration of Andrea Arnold's “Cow”, Margaret Atwood's “MaddAddam” trilogy and – Alexis' favourite – “Captain Planet”.Guest: Catherine OliverHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.Episode ResourcesCatherine, Rosie, Alexis and our producer Alice recommendedAndrea Arnold's film “Cow”Margaret Atwood's “MaddAddam” book trilogyTV series “Captain Planet and the Planeteers”Evia Wylk's essay collection “Death by Landscape”From The Sociological ReviewPerforming the classification of nature – Claire WatertonDaphne the Cat: Reimagining human–animal boundaries on Facebook – Verónica PolicarpoUnnatural Times? The Social Imaginary and the Future of Nature – Kate SoperBy Catherine OliverRising with the rooster: How urban chickens are relaxing the pace of lifeTransforming paradise: Neoliberal regeneration and more-than-human urbanism in BirminghamThe Opposite of ExtinctionReturning to 'The Good Life'? Chickens and Chicken-keeping during Covid-19 in BritainMetabolic ruminations with climate cattle: towards a more-than-human metabo-politics (co-authored with Jonathon Turnbull)Further reading“Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save” – Tyson Yunkaporta“Toward equality: Including non-human animals in studies of lived religion and nonreligion” – Lori G. Beaman, Lauren Strumos“A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet” – Raj Patel, Jason W. Moore“The Chicken Chronicles: A Memoir” – Alice Walker“The Chicken Book” – Page Smith, Charles DanielRead more about the work of Zoe Todd, Adam Searle, Anna Tsing, Anna Guasco, Paige Colton and The Care Collective.

¡Ya disponible el tercer episodio de la tercera temporada de Ludens! Esta vez hablamos con Óliver Pérez Latorre sobre su trayectoria investigadora, desde la crucial publicación del libro El lenguaje videolúdico hasta sus publicaciones más recientes en torno a las estructuras significativas de los videojuegos.– [Libro] Óliver Pérez Latorre, El lenguaje videolúdico - https://laertes.es/libro/el-lenguaje-videoludico/– [Libro] Óliver Pérez Latorre, El arte del entretenimiento. Un ensayo sobre el diseño de experiencias en narrativa, videojuegos y redes sociales - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35698701-el-arte-del-entretenimiento– [Libro] Víctor Navarro Remesal y Óliver Pérez Latorre (eds.), Perspectives on the European VideoGame - https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv24650dc– [Artículo] Óliver Pérez Latorre, El demonio del gameplay emocional está en los detalles -https://revistaatalante.com/index.php/atalante/article/view/856– [Exposición] Gameplay. Cultura del videojuego en el CCCB - https://www.cccb.org/es/exposiciones/ficha/gameplay/232349– [Libro] Graeme Kirckpatrick, Computer Games and the Social Imaginary - https://www.wiley.com/en-ie/Computer+Games+and+the+Social+Imaginary-p-9780745641102– [Libro] Aubrey Anable, Playing with Feelings - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt20mvgwg– [Revista] ROMchip, a Journal of Game Stories, vol, 1 (1) - https://romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal/issue/view/july-2019– [Videojueogo] NORCO - http://norcogame.com– [Videojuego] The Red Strings Club - https://www.deconstructeam.com– [Videojuego] Gonzalo Frasca, September 12th - https://www.onseriousgames.com/september-12th-a-toy-world-newsgame/– [Juego de mesa] Las mansiones de la locura - http://www.fantasyflightgames.es/juegos/coleccion/las_mansiones_de_la_locura

In order to end abortion, we need to consider what Scripture tells us about the blessedness of children and why we must protect the unborn and offer a new set of images, stories, and celebrations that reform our social imaginaries. Listen to David Schrock, Trent Hunter, and Stephen Wellum discuss four truths that move us in that direction. Timestamps to Know · Intro: 00:25 · Influences for Having a Home Full of Children – 2:38 · Discussing Philip K. Dick's Opening Scene – 6:43 · Francis Schaeffer & Consequences of Ideas - 11:38 · What is a Social Imaginary? – 14:12 · Four Truths for a New Vision of Children – 17:27 · Abortion is a Theological Problem – 19:55 · What is the Image of God? 22:50 · Understanding Humans as God's Royal Image – 25:04 · What is a Biblical Case for Human Dignity Inside the Womb? – 28:00 · How do the Gospel and Rescuing the Unborn Go Together? – 31:00 · Outro: - 37:12 Resources to Peruse · For the Kids Nobody Wants: Imagine There's No Children – David Schrock · For the Kids Nobody Wants: Longing for and Loving the Little Ones – David Schrock Books to Read · Marriage: Sex in the Service of God – Christopher Ash · Love Thy Body - Nancy Pearcy · The Eye of the Sibyl and Other Classic Stories – Philip K. Dick · A Secular Age – Charles Taylor · The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self – Carl R. Trueman · Hearers & Doers – Kevin J. Vanhoozer

‘What Is a Woman?' made me both extremely sad and angry for what has been lost, squandered, and even systematically made war against in America and the West over the past century. But Matt Walsh and the folks at The Daily Wire did an excellent job on the documentary, and Walsh comes across as genuine, while they come across as lunatics if they don't agree that women are real, known, and objective. To quote Larry the Cucumber, “I laughed, I cried. It moved me, Bob.” But what is a cucumber? And do cucumbers exist, or do we just assign them that name at birth in a presumptuous way? Maybe vegetables are a social construct. As for the more recent documentary put out by DW, 'The Greatest Lie Ever Sold' with Candace Owens - if you or someone you know has questions about the legitimacy of the narrative surrounding Black Lives Matter the movement, or recent allegations of misappropriation of funds, watch this. Speaking personally, I lost a lot of friends over the BLM, CRT, woke, social justice business, especially since the death of George Floyd; and besides that, several important family relationships were put under immense strain as I tried to write about this. And there weren't just insinuations of racism casually thrown at anyone who questioned the Leftist mainstream media narrative; lives were lost, businesses destroyed, communities ravaged, and the social fabric of America was arguably torn in two about it. The money donated going to the purchase of lavish mansions is shocking; but the underlying premise was a lie peddled by mercenaries, anarchists, trained activists, mountebanks, sycophants, and the brainwashed masses who were unwilling to stop and question the evidence. Therefore, there was no other way in which the money could have been spent that would not have been fraudulent given the premise on which the donations were solicited and made. But as for 'Strange New World' by Carl Trueman, I have two words for you: Social Imaginary. And what that is, which Trueman talks about for a good bit in this book, you could do worse than a 12-minute YouTube video explaining the concept by Ellie Hain on the channel ‘The World We Create,' not least because she has an absolutely gorgeous accent. The short version is that where all was theological before, when theology was “Queen of the Sciences,” now everything is politics, economics, and psychology as the upending of the old world order necessitates secularizing everything. For those who also read ‘Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self' by Trueman, a lot of what is in this book will be familiar, but not tedious for its repetition or rephrasing. And it is good to hope, and to put our hope in Christ, and to continue striving to be faithful to God in building up and strengthening our families and local churches in the timeless truths of God's Word, come what may. Yet Mark Noll wrote his famous book to criticize evangelicals in the U.S. for not engaging the culture, and not cultivating their intellects. “The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there's not much of one,” he famously said. According to Carl Trueman, 'The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind' is that there's not much of an evangelical. As he says, this is because we don't agree about what the evangel is. Christian pastors, teachers, professors, authors, and intellectuals have for decades been undermining their testimony and witness, not so much for opting out of spaces they are either thrown out of or not invited to in the first place. But works like Noll's shift the onus from those who are gatekeeping on the basis of theological liberalism and secularization to those who are being locked out, further delaying rectification of the fatal error. It's like a big brother who's so much stronger than his little brother saying “Stop hitting yourself” as he clubs him with his own hand. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/garrett-ashley-mullet/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/garrett-ashley-mullet/support

Sven sips some gin and chats with Don and Sticks of Bristle about their song "Magic Shoes," dearly departed venues, and some of their favorite non-musical things.   SONG: Magic Shoes ALBUM: invitation           BANDS: Sticks:   Bands:  Lou Miami And The Kozmetix, King Moon Razer, Creeps In Exile, Super Friends, White Trash Debutantes, and Bristle Don:  Bands: Hushtower, Terminus Victor, Social Imaginary, and Bristle FAVORITE TREAT: Sticks:  Water, Hershey Bar w/ Almonds Don:  Many types of Gin (neat) Photo Credit: Ben Tschetter

Being Christian in a Secular Age: A PilgrimageSession 3: Out-narrating the Secular StoriesOver the span of four discussions, I'm joined by the Rev'd Justin McIntosh, Rector of St Paul's Episcopal Church in Ivy, Virginia to discuss Being a Christian in a Secular Age. In this third episode, we turn a critical eye toward the Master Narratives that underwrite the Social Imaginary of our modern, Secular Age and offer a different, more complex and nuanced story of our history. In this alternative (and more accurate) story, the Church and Christian faith are not a relic blocking the way of progress but, more often than not, an impetus for and an engine of human flourishing throughout the ages. For it is this same Christian faith that has inspired the greatest philosophers, artists, theologians, musicians, scholars, and scientists of history.

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Being Christian in a Secular Age: A PilgrimageDiscussion 2—Stories of the SecularOver the span of four episodes, I'm joined by the Rev'd Justin McIntosh, Rector of St Paul's Episcopal Church in Ivy, Virginia to discuss Being a Christian in a Secular Age. In this second episodes, we trace the Master Narratives that underwrite the Social Imaginary of our modern, Secular Age and its correlative Exclusive Humanism. Here we draw on Charles Taylor's magisterial work, A Secular Age, as well as James K. A. Smith's How (Not) to Be Secular. Other sources for our discussion that remain yet unmentioned but are no less important are David Bentley Hart's Atheist Delusions, William Cavanaugh's The Myth of Religious Violence, and Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm's The Myth of Disenchantment. 

Guest: Abigail Favale, Director of the William Penn Honors Program at George Fox University, where she teaches seminars in the Great Books. Her first book is the conversion memoir, Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion.

Ilana Mountian is a researcher drawing on psychoanalytic, critical, decolonial, and feminist philosophies. She is the author of Cultural Ecstasies: Drugs, Gender, and the Social Imaginary, exploring discourses around drug use, gender, and drug policy. She is currently working on a book that will be published later this year by Routledge about otherness and mental health, focusing on immigration, drug use, and transsexuality. Mountian is a member of the Discourse Unit, a group led by well-known critical psychologists Erica Burman and Ian Parker. The Discourse Unit is dedicated to providing teaching resources for qualitative and feminist work, producing radical academic work, and developing critical perspectives in action research. In addition to her work as a researcher, Mountian is a psychoanalyst and a postdoctoral lecturer at the University of Sao Paulo Brazil and Manchester Metropolitan University. In this interview, she discusses intersectionality and drug use, the disease model of addiction, psychiatric labels, and psychiatry's place in creating “otherness.”

An online dialogue recorded February 13th, 2021, on the Encounter theme with https://www.newyorkencounter.org/paolo-carozza (Paolo Carozza), professor of Law and Director of Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the University of Notre Dame, and https://www.newyorkencounter.org/charles-taylor (Charles Taylor), philosopher and professor emeritus, McGill UniversityThe events of the past months have shattered our illusion of control and humbled pride. Have they also revealed something of value in our humanity which we were neglecting? And, as Stephanie Zacharek asked in her article in the special issue of Time dedicated to the year 2020, "After a year of so many changes, will we change radically too? We learned a lot in 2020–but what, exactly, did we learn?" Paolo Carozza dialogues on these questions, and delve into the Encounter 2021 theme, with world renowned philosopher Charles Taylor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVyK2-mM8Uo (Watch the event on YouTube.) (00:00) Introduction (01:43) Community and individual identity in the pandemic (07:07) Resisting the urge of "tribalism" (11:30) Shoring up social bonds (16:00) Humans: Self-interpreting animals? (20:36) Secularism and the "Secular Age": problem, or opportunity? (28:09) Educating the young to live in a "Secular Age" (30:30) Inter-religious dialogue (35:53) A new "Social Imaginary?" (39:58) The role of Christianity now (45:07) "Incarnation" and "excarnation" (49:42) Understanding human desire (53:33) Construction of the common good (55:42) Politics as the locus of reason and dialogue?

One of main developmental tasks of the adolescent stage is the journey to forming one’s identity. In today’s world, some of the most compelling, dangerous, misdirected cultural messages are leading kids down wrong paths as they look for answers to the question, Who am I? Dr. Carl Trueman has written a great new book that helps us understand and address these issues. We love chatting with Carl about his practical, hope-filled, and theologically informed cultural observations. Today is no exception as Duffy Robbins and I learn from Carl and his new book, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution, on this enlightening episode of Youth Culture Matters.

Über den Gast Wenn ich die besonderen Aktivitäten, Rollen und Auszeichnungen meines Gastes heute alle aufzählen würde, hätten wir vermutlich eine Introzeit von gut 20 Minuten. Deswegen nur ein kurzer Auszug: Der World Technology Award for Design, Ausstellungen im MoMA in New York, im Museum of Contemprary Arts in Tokyo, im National Museum of China. Keynotes bei TEDGlobal, Pop Tech, New York Tech Fest. Lehraufträge an Universitäten in den USA, Russland, Isaland, UK, Indien, Wien. Im Advisory und Editorial Board tätig für MIT Press, Journal of Design and Science, MIT LAB, und Science Gallery London. Der Link zur Vita und den beeindruckenden Projekten: https://daisyginsberg.com/about Über den Host Florian Kondert ist Geschäftsführer der Future Day GmbH. Sein Team begleitet Unternehmen seit über 15 Jahren dabei, Zukunft in ihr Heute zu bringen. Im Kern aller Tätigkeiten stehen jene Momente, die uns neu auf die Welt blicken lassen, und in welchen wir entscheidende Weichen für die Zukunft stellen. Die Future Day GmbH kreiert solche Momente, die intellektuell und emotional inspirieren. Die Fragen an Dr. Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg: Mein Gast heute ist die Künstlerin Dr. Daisy Ginsberg, die wir auch beim kommenden Future Day am 25. Juni in Frankfurt auf der Bühne begrüßen dürfen: Daisy, thank you so much for the opportunity to talk to you today! To give our audience a short impression about your daily live: We had to postpone our interview, since you recently arrived back from a 5 weeks exhibition journey with a heavy cold, right? Where have you been and what was the exhibition about? (01:10) https://www.daisyginsberg.com/work/resurrecting-the-sublime Let’s get a bit closer to what our guests at the upcoming Future Day will learn from your work: Could I say, a plastic bottle is responsible for your keynote topic? What’s the story behind that? (04:10) The title of your talk is “BETTER! – What is better? Whose better? Who decides?”. Why is that a crucial question for you? (07:30) https://www.daisyginsberg.com/work/better If I look around a bit more reflected, I got the feeling, that the idea of better was kind of hijacked in many domains. From politics to marketing, everyone is promising that things will be somehow better. It actually feels a bit like betterism. Do we need to be aware about that? (09:30) Should we all be more concerned about the question of better? Where would you expect major change if they did, in terms of our challenges towards future issues? (13:35) Your recent project RESURRECTING THE SUBLIME was about reconstructing the smell of deserted flowers using genetic engineering. Is the idea behind that to be more sensitive about the implications which decisions we make as human beings?(16:59) Why did you choose especially flowers as an admonition to what we are responsible for? (20:45) I understand, your work delivers straight forward crucials impulses for the economy and basically for every individual as well. Why did you decide to bring these to your audience through arts? (26:40) Do we probably need exactly this kind of storytelling interventions to get really involved? (29:44) There is one last question, that seems to fit perfectly to the upcoming Future Day in Frankfurt: In the abstract about your Better-project you write, social imaginary itself can be a critical design object, offering a process to reimagine the world. What do you mean by that and why is it vital to reimagine our world? (32:42) OUTRO Daisy, thank you so much for your time today. I’m looking forward to meet you personally in June 25th at the Future Day in Frankfurt! (36:07) ––––––––––––––––––––––––– ––––––––––––––––––––––––– Melden Sie sich für unseren Newsletter an, um über neue Inhalte auf dem Laufenden zu bleiben: https://futureday.network/newsletter/ ––––––––––––––––––––––––– ––––––––––––––––––––––––– Future Day online https://futureday.network https://twitter.com/fd_journey https://www.facebook.com/fdjourney/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/future-day-gmbh

In her recent book Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico (University of California Press, 2017), Kathryn A. Sloan explores ideas and discourses surrounding the suicide of men and women in Mexico City. Against the backdrop of modernity and transnational intellectual exchanges at the turn of the twentieth century, Sloan situates a vast array of Mexican social actors as world citizens who approached death with the same complexity as people in other parts of the world. Throughout a variety of fascinating sources and cases, Sloan explores a myriad of cultural understandings of people who took their own lives, and portrays the meticulous care taken by those who planned suicide over their bodies, as well as the cold forensic rooms and their detailed reports. She writes of how ideas about death, moral panic, and science intertwined in different written and visual arenas. The press, official statistics, and medical reports explored suicide as a social illness that was undermining one of the most valuable resources of the nation: the Mexican youth. In Sloan's narrative, the city plays a central role: parks, the Metropolitan Cathedral, and cantinas took new significance as scenarios for suicide. Death in the City challenges widespread conceptions about the meanings historically attached to Mexicans regarding death and violence, while showing the nuances that gender and class added to the discourses about suicide between the Porfirian and the revolutionary era. Pamela Fuentes is Assistant Professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Department, Pace University, NYC campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her recent book Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico (University of California Press, 2017), Kathryn A. Sloan explores ideas and discourses surrounding the suicide of men and women in Mexico City. Against the backdrop of modernity and transnational intellectual exchanges at the turn of the twentieth century, Sloan situates a vast array of Mexican social actors as world citizens who approached death with the same complexity as people in other parts of the world. Throughout a variety of fascinating sources and cases, Sloan explores a myriad of cultural understandings of people who took their own lives, and portrays the meticulous care taken by those who planned suicide over their bodies, as well as the cold forensic rooms and their detailed reports. She writes of how ideas about death, moral panic, and science intertwined in different written and visual arenas. The press, official statistics, and medical reports explored suicide as a social illness that was undermining one of the most valuable resources of the nation: the Mexican youth. In Sloan’s narrative, the city plays a central role: parks, the Metropolitan Cathedral, and cantinas took new significance as scenarios for suicide. Death in the City challenges widespread conceptions about the meanings historically attached to Mexicans regarding death and violence, while showing the nuances that gender and class added to the discourses about suicide between the Porfirian and the revolutionary era. Pamela Fuentes is Assistant Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Pace University, NYC campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her recent book Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico (University of California Press, 2017), Kathryn A. Sloan explores ideas and discourses surrounding the suicide of men and women in Mexico City. Against the backdrop of modernity and transnational intellectual exchanges at the turn of the twentieth century, Sloan situates a vast array of Mexican social actors as world citizens who approached death with the same complexity as people in other parts of the world. Throughout a variety of fascinating sources and cases, Sloan explores a myriad of cultural understandings of people who took their own lives, and portrays the meticulous care taken by those who planned suicide over their bodies, as well as the cold forensic rooms and their detailed reports. She writes of how ideas about death, moral panic, and science intertwined in different written and visual arenas. The press, official statistics, and medical reports explored suicide as a social illness that was undermining one of the most valuable resources of the nation: the Mexican youth. In Sloan’s narrative, the city plays a central role: parks, the Metropolitan Cathedral, and cantinas took new significance as scenarios for suicide. Death in the City challenges widespread conceptions about the meanings historically attached to Mexicans regarding death and violence, while showing the nuances that gender and class added to the discourses about suicide between the Porfirian and the revolutionary era. Pamela Fuentes is Assistant Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Pace University, NYC campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her recent book Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico (University of California Press, 2017), Kathryn A. Sloan explores ideas and discourses surrounding the suicide of men and women in Mexico City. Against the backdrop of modernity and transnational intellectual exchanges at the turn of the twentieth century, Sloan situates a vast array of Mexican social actors as world citizens who approached death with the same complexity as people in other parts of the world. Throughout a variety of fascinating sources and cases, Sloan explores a myriad of cultural understandings of people who took their own lives, and portrays the meticulous care taken by those who planned suicide over their bodies, as well as the cold forensic rooms and their detailed reports. She writes of how ideas about death, moral panic, and science intertwined in different written and visual arenas. The press, official statistics, and medical reports explored suicide as a social illness that was undermining one of the most valuable resources of the nation: the Mexican youth. In Sloan’s narrative, the city plays a central role: parks, the Metropolitan Cathedral, and cantinas took new significance as scenarios for suicide. Death in the City challenges widespread conceptions about the meanings historically attached to Mexicans regarding death and violence, while showing the nuances that gender and class added to the discourses about suicide between the Porfirian and the revolutionary era. Pamela Fuentes is Assistant Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Pace University, NYC campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her recent book Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico (University of California Press, 2017), Kathryn A. Sloan explores ideas and discourses surrounding the suicide of men and women in Mexico City. Against the backdrop of modernity and transnational intellectual exchanges at the turn of the twentieth century, Sloan situates a vast array of Mexican social actors as world citizens who approached death with the same complexity as people in other parts of the world. Throughout a variety of fascinating sources and cases, Sloan explores a myriad of cultural understandings of people who took their own lives, and portrays the meticulous care taken by those who planned suicide over their bodies, as well as the cold forensic rooms and their detailed reports. She writes of how ideas about death, moral panic, and science intertwined in different written and visual arenas. The press, official statistics, and medical reports explored suicide as a social illness that was undermining one of the most valuable resources of the nation: the Mexican youth. In Sloan’s narrative, the city plays a central role: parks, the Metropolitan Cathedral, and cantinas took new significance as scenarios for suicide. Death in the City challenges widespread conceptions about the meanings historically attached to Mexicans regarding death and violence, while showing the nuances that gender and class added to the discourses about suicide between the Porfirian and the revolutionary era. Pamela Fuentes is Assistant Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Pace University, NYC campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Social Imaginary and Death: An Interview with Dr. Jeffrey P. Bishop MD, PHD, Director; Tenet Endowed Chair in Health Care Ethics Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics. We explore how death has been pushed out of the "middle" of modern lived experience, how language around death and medicine determines how we give care, and how the Church, from the way it speaks to the way it lays out its architecture, can be a voice calling this "social imaginary" into question.