Imagined Futures Hope, Risk and Uncertainty /

• Main Author: Cook, Julia (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty,
• Subjects: Social groups.; Family.; Environmental sociology.; Emotions.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.; Environmental Sociology.; Emotion.

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 b...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Diagnoses of the Future Horizon
• 3. Strategies for Relating to the Personal and Societal Future
• 4. Discourses of the Long-Term Future
• 5. Future Imaginaries in Theory and Practice
• 6. The Utility of Hope
• 7. Conclusion.