1. Introduction–Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
2. Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics–Arjun Appadurai
3. Publics and Counterpublics–Michael Warner
4. Modern Social Imaginary–Charles Taylor
5. The Liberal Civil Subject and the Social in Eighteenth-Century British Moral Philosophy–Mary Poovey
6. Imagining Solidarity: Cosmopolitanism, Constitutional Patriotism, and the Public Sphere–Craig Calhoun
7. Islam in Public: New Visibilities and New Imaginaries–Nilüfer Göle
8. Cultures of Circulation: The Imaginations of Modernity–Benjamin Lee and Edward LiPuma
9. Notes on Gridlock: Genealogy, Intimacy, Sexuality–Elizabeth A. Povinelli
10. African Modes of Self-Writing–Achille Mbembe
11. From the Field–Shujen Wang
12. Snapshot: Islam in Public Space–Ludwig Ammann