As cultural theorist Raymond Williams has argued, restricting creative value to elite artistic production obscures the social and political functions of imagination. It sidelines the creative labor embedded in care work activism, community survival strategies and everyday sensemaking. Limiting imagination and creativity to specific professions and
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