Stereotypes and Emblems in the Construction of Social Imagination

Authors

  • Michel Rautenberg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/ocps.v12i2.2687

Keywords:

stereotype, emblem, memory, coal-mining

Abstract

This article develops two figures of the social imagination: the stereotype and the emblem. To start with we explore the notion of social imagination, principally from Emile Durkheim, Gaston Bachelard and Maurine Godelier. Secondly, the article deepens the two notions of stereotypes and emblems supported by the works of the historian Bronislaw Baczko and the anthropologist Michael Herzfeld’s. Throughout the paper, the theoretical aims are illustrated with reference to coal-mining memory and heritage in the north of France.

 

Author Biography

Michel Rautenberg

University of Lyon, 42023, UMR 5264 Mondes et Dynamiques des Sociétés, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne, France 

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Published

2010-04-05

How to Cite

Rautenberg, M. (2010). Stereotypes and Emblems in the Construction of Social Imagination. Outlines. Critical Practice Studies, 12(2), 126–137. https://doi.org/10.7146/ocps.v12i2.2687