"I Have Been Born, Raised and Lived My Whole Life Here" - Perpetually on the Move While Remaining Still.

This article explores the story of Einar, a Faroese man who always lived within a 500-meters radius on the island of Suðuroy, who never felt "stuck" or "immobile" in the literal sense of the word. Studies have shown that staying is a process, as much as mobility; yet while mobility studies mainly show that imagination is an incentive to move, we argue that imagination may also actively support staying. Combining sociocultural psychology with mobility studies, we propose to explore the entanglement of symbolic mobility (a form of imagination) and various forms of geographical (im)mobility. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and hours of conversation, we present the case study of Einar's life on his island. We follow the sociogenetic development of the island, and the expansion and contraction of the imaginative horizon over time. On this background, we then retrace the life of Einar and show how, within this transforming context, his imagination developed thanks to resources he could use from the mobility of technologies, ideas, and other people. Interestingly, at different bifurcation points, his symbolic mobility almost led him to move away but, at another point, helped him to refuse geographical mobility. Hence, he was always symbolically mobile while staying. We finally propose directions for generalising from this case study, and implications for cultural psychology and for mobility and migration studies.

Imagination and social movements.

Whether explicitly mentioned or not, imagination plays a key role in social movements. People's dissatisfaction with what is, their imagining of how things once were better, or of how things may become, often supports social movements. Social movements can, in turn, bring about new imaginations for people. After defining the notion of imagination and social movements, drawing on recent research, we review the literature along three main axes: the role of temporality in the relation between social movements and imagination; the relation between collective identities, social movement and imagination; and the resources that support imagination and social movements. We conclude by highlighting further dimensions to analyse the dynamics of imagination, which may open new ways to analyse the trajectories of social movements.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency joins hands with the American Society of Civil Engineers to promote flood hazard mitigation

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has made a major commitment to flood hazard mitigation over the past several years. This commitment has resulted in a developing close working relationship with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Two major developments have resulted from this collaborative effort. The ASCE-7 Standard, "Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures", is being revised to include flood loads, and a new ASCE Standard, "Flood Resistant Design and Construction for Buildings and Other Structures," is being completed. Both standards will include mandatory language suitable for code adoption and non-mandatory commentary portions