Emergency Imaginaries and Moving Forward
<p>Where something like violence serves as a modality for social conflict and unrest, its foundations are nearly impossible to approximate, because they are continually shifting on a psychological level. People do not “inflict” harm on others in the strict sense—it is a matter of following the unconscious mechanisms that undergird this process and defining a context that actually answers questions, instead of giving absolute responsibility to one person or entity. This is why the concept of emergency imaginaries is relevant, as it allows subjects to see their own participation in this space without reducing things to structural complaints.</p>
<p>An emergency imaginary is somewhere between an ideological frame of reference and the shared understanding of each others’ humanity people come to possess. According to Calhoun,</p>
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