imagined world

is an extension of benedict's 'imagined communities' and refers to the multiple worlds which are constituted by the historically situated imaginations of persons and groups spread around the globe.

the great multiplicity of worlds of groups and persons around the globe. 'These landscapes thus, are the building blocks of what, extending Benedict Anderson, I would like to call 'imagined worlds,' that is, the multiple worlds which are constituted by the historically situated imaginations of persons and groups spread around the globe (Appaurai, 1989 in Appadurai 1990: 297)) . . . . .An important fact of the world we lin in today is that many persons on the globe live in such imagined 'worlds' and not just in imagined communities, and thus are able to contest and sometimes even subvert the 'imagined worlds' of the official mind and fo the entrepreneurial mentality that surround them. Appadurai 1990: 297))

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imagined world