Imagined Futures

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Hope, Risk and Uncertainty, Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty

ISBN: 3319653245
ISBN 13: 9783319653242
Autor: Cook, Julia
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: ix, 141 S., 1 s/w Illustr., 141 p. 1 illus.
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.11.2017
Auflage: 1/2018
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

This book presents the findings of a recent interview-based study of how 28 young adults living in Melbourne, Australia viewed and related to both the personal and societal future. In so doing it addresses issues such as how individuals imagine the future of their society, and whether this has any bearing on the way in which they perceive and relate to their own, personal future. The respondents‘ future imaginings are also considered in relation to influential theoretical accounts that have sought to diagnose the character of contemporary society, and with it the future horizon. Drawing on this discussion, some alternative ways of conceptualising micro experiences of future-oriented thinking are proposed, and the role that hope can play in this process is addressed. This book will appeal to readers who are interested in the sociology of risk and uncertainty, time, and youth.  

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Autorenporträt

Julia Cook is a Research Fellow in the Youth Research Centre at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests and publications are concerned with the sociology of youth, time, risk and uncertainty, and religion.

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