ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the social imaginaries created in postethnic activism. It builds on the idea of the ‘politics of imagination’ to grasp how postethnic activism involves a creative and transformative element. The chapter argues that the activists are developing new social imaginaries through a focus on ‘the past in the present’ and ‘the future in the present.’ A large part of the ‘freedom dreams’ build on a narrative from the past to the present or from the present to the future, while a few also develop the full narrative temporality of past–present–future. In addition, some freedom dreams break the linear narrative and instead depart from the future to envision ways of living together that are not restricted by the current structures and systems of meaning.
