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It is a commonly held assumption among cultural, social, and political psychologists that imagining the future of societies we live in has the potential to change how we think and act in the world. However little research has been devoted to whether this effect exists in collective imaginations, of social groups, communities and nations, for instance. This book explores the part that imagination and creativity play in the construction of collective futures, and the diversity of outlets in which these are presented, from fiction and cultural symbols to science and technology. The authors discuss this effect in social phenomena such as in intergroup conflict and social change, and focus on several cases studies to illustrate how the imagination of collective futures can guide social and political action. This book brings together theoretical and empirical contributions from cultural, social, and political psychology to offer insight into our constant (re)imagination of the societies in which we live.

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Author:   Constance de Saint-Laurent ,  Sandra Obradović ,  Kevin R. Carriere
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783030093907

ISBN 10:   3030093905
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   22 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: What may the future hold?; Constance de Saint-Laurent, Sandra Obradović & Kevin R. CarriereSection 1: Imagining the FutureChapter 2: Imagining the collective future: a sociocultural perspective; Tania Zittoun & Alex GillespieChapter 3 Framing the issue: Literature, collective imagination, and fan activism; Kevin R. CarriereChapter 4 Thinking through time:. From collective memories to collective futures; Constance de Saint-laurentChapter 5 Perspectival collective futures: Creativity and imagination in society; Vlad Petre GlăveanuSection 2: Collective ImaginationsChapter 6 Imagining collective futures in time: prolepsis and the regimes of historicity; Ignacio Brescó de LunaChapter 7 Utopias and World-Making: Time, Transformation and the Collective Imagination; Sandra Jovchelovitch & Hana HawlinaChapter 8 Troubled pasts, collective memory and collective futures; Cristian TileagăChapter 9 Imagining collective identities beyond intergroup conflict; Cathy Nicholson and Caroline HowarthSection 3: Creating Socio-Political ChangeChapter 10 Creating Alternative Futures: Cooperative Initiatives in Egypt; Eman A. Maarek & Sarah H. AwadChapter 11 Remembering and imagining in human development: Fairness and social movements in Ireland; Séamus A. PowerChapter 12 Creating Integration: a Case Study from Serbia and the EU; Sandra ObradovićChapter 13 History education and the (im) possibility of imagining the future; Mario CarreteroChapter 14 Conclusion: Changing imaginings of collective futures; Ivana Marková.

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Constance de Saint-Laurent is a Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, where she previously completed a PhD on the sociocultural psychology of collective memory. Her research focuses on social thinking, imagination and the life-course, and more generally on how people construct and understand the world in which they live.  Sandra Obradovic is based at the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK. Her research focuses on the role that identity, power and representations of history play in shaping attitudes and behaviours towards socio-political change.  Kevin R. Carriere studies at Georgetown University, USA, where he is examining the political psychology of perceived threat and its effects on support for human rights violations. His research focuses on how individuals understand, apply, and negotiate human rights and their violations through negotiation, education, and activism. 

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