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Podcast: In Common
Episode: Insight Episode #43: Hillary Angelo on social imaginaries
Description: This insight episode comes from full episode seventy-six with Hillary Angelo.
Hillary is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she works as a historical sociologist focused on the relationship between the environment and large-scale transformations in urban contexts.
Hillary talks with Michael about the term social imaginary and how it allows an understanding of a certain set of social shared ideas about nature. They discuss Hillary’s recent book, “How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens,” in which Hillary argues that there is a socia...