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Editorial Introduction<\/span> Brent Bellamy<\/span><\/p>\n

Editorial Introduction<\/h1>\n
Brent Bellamy<\/div>\n
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T<\/span>en years ago, Sheena Wilson and Andrew Pendakis edited volume 3 number 2 \u201cSighting Oil<\/a>,\u201d the fourth full issue of Imaginations.<\/em> Andriko Lozowy\u2019s cover image of a massive digger wheel still arrests me. The issue includes stand out pieces by Ursula Biemann, Warren Cariou, Tracy Lassiter, the late Jonathan Gordon, and many others. This was the issue led me to the journal.<\/p>\n

I joined the team at Imaginations<\/em> in Fall 2014. I began working with Sheena Wilson as the Editor-in-Chief. That Fall, the journal won an Aid to Scholarly Journals Grant and began the ongoing work of making Imaginations<\/em> accessible, digitally up to date, and properly catalogued. At the same time, we published \u201chttps:\/\/imaginations.space\/?p=9947<\/a>,\u201d \u201cNorth by West<\/a>,\u201d and \u201cCritical Relationality: Beyond Settler Sex & Nature<\/a>\u201d among others.<\/p>\n

Since 2017, the journal has moved from Edmonton to Toronto. We now operate under the direction of Markus Reisenleitner and have welcomed some fantastic colleagues to our team<\/a>. Sheena Wilson, Carrie Smith, and Tara Milbrandt have since stepped away from the editorial team, and we at the journal want to thank them wholeheartedly for making Imaginations<\/em> what is it today: a leader in gold standard open-access publishing and staunch supporter of critical voices, emerging and global, on visual cultural studies.<\/p>\n

During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we published two health related issues: one edited by Mary Elizabeth Luka, Annette M. Markham, and Dan Harris titled, Massive Micro Sensemaking<\/a> and the other by Natalie Loveless titled, Immune Nations: Research Creation at the Intersection of Vaccine Science and Global Health Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We have several exciting issues in process: we\u2019ll soon be reading three upcoming issues:<\/p>\n