Imagining Identities is a scholarly blog dedicated to exploring how identities are constructed, negotiated, performed, and transformed across diverse communicative and media landscapes. This platform engages with the dynamic processes through which individuals and communities imagine themselves into being, contest dominant narratives, and produce new forms of identity that move beyond traditional boundaries.
The blog originated from the Imagining Identities international conference held at the University of Seville in April 2026 and has since developed into an ongoing forum for critical inquiry into identity in an era of global connectivity and cultural flux. Areas of engagement include, but are not limited to, media representation and the framing of self and other, digital technologies and emergent modes of identity expression, migration, mobility, and the reshaping of belonging, the subversion and reimagining of normative identity categories, the political instrumentalization of identity, and practices of othering, as well as the role of resistance and social justice in identity formation.
A guiding commitment of Imagining Identities is to foster dialogue between academic and public audiences. In addition to scholarly contributions, the blog publishes accessible commentary, critical reflections, and interdisciplinary perspectives that open these conversations to broader readerships. We welcome guest contributions from researchers, practitioners, and independent scholars and thinkers across disciplines who engage critically with questions of identity, communication, and power.
To submit a contribution, please navigate to our submissions page.
Click here see the Program for the 2026 Conference in Sevilla, Spain.