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Collective imagination and sociogenesis through the prism of imagining collective futures
Titre du projet
Collective imagination and sociogenesis through the prism of imagining collective futures
Description
The project will study the relationship between how people imagine the future and how social change transpires. We will explore the proposition that social change is guided by people’s imaginings of what the collective future could be like; by the visions of what is possible and anxieties about what should not happen. The aim is to construct a multi-level framework to account for the recursive relationship between social actuality and imagination of the collective futures that would explain the operations of imagination at the level of individuals, groups and society, as well as the interactions between them.
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Completed
Date de début
1 Décembre 2018
Date de fin
1 Janvier 2023
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- PublicationAccès libreImagination and social movements(2020-2-29)
; ; 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.