Imagining Life Beyond a Crisis: A Four Quadrant Model to Conceptualize Possible Futures
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Imagining Life Beyond a Crisis : A Four Quadrant Model to Conceptualize Possible Futures. / Power, Séamus A.; Schaeffer, Merlin; Heisig, Jan P.; Udsen, Rebecca; Ordóñez-Bueso, Liisalotte; Morton, Thomas.
In: Culture and Psychology, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2024, p. 411-430.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Imagining Life Beyond a Crisis
T2 - A Four Quadrant Model to Conceptualize Possible Futures
AU - Power, Séamus A.
AU - Schaeffer, Merlin
AU - Heisig, Jan P.
AU - Udsen, Rebecca
AU - Ordóñez-Bueso, Liisalotte
AU - Morton, Thomas
N1 - Funding Information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study is supported by University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Science. Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2023.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - In this article we report evidence from a series of semi-structured interviews with a broad sample of people living in Denmark (n = 21), about their perspectives on the future during the first months of the global Covid-19 pandemic. The thematic and discursive analyses, based on an abductive ontology, illustrate imaginings of the future along two vectors: individual to collective and descriptive to moral. On a descriptive and individual level, people imagined getting through the pandemic on a myopic day-by-day basis; on a descriptive and collective level, people imagined changes to work and socializing. Their future was bound and curtailed by their immediate present. On a moral and individual level, respondents were less detailed in their reports, but some vowed to change their behaviors. On a moral and collective level, respondents reported what the world should be like and discussed changes to environmental behaviors such as traveling, commuting, and work. The model suggests the domain of individual moral imaginings is the most difficult domain for people to imagine beyond the practicalities of their everyday lives. The implications of this model for comprehending imaginations of the future are discussed.
AB - In this article we report evidence from a series of semi-structured interviews with a broad sample of people living in Denmark (n = 21), about their perspectives on the future during the first months of the global Covid-19 pandemic. The thematic and discursive analyses, based on an abductive ontology, illustrate imaginings of the future along two vectors: individual to collective and descriptive to moral. On a descriptive and individual level, people imagined getting through the pandemic on a myopic day-by-day basis; on a descriptive and collective level, people imagined changes to work and socializing. Their future was bound and curtailed by their immediate present. On a moral and individual level, respondents were less detailed in their reports, but some vowed to change their behaviors. On a moral and collective level, respondents reported what the world should be like and discussed changes to environmental behaviors such as traveling, commuting, and work. The model suggests the domain of individual moral imaginings is the most difficult domain for people to imagine beyond the practicalities of their everyday lives. The implications of this model for comprehending imaginations of the future are discussed.
KW - Covid-19
KW - Denmark
KW - future
KW - imagining
KW - morality
KW - social change
U2 - 10.1177/1354067X231177459
DO - 10.1177/1354067X231177459
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85163017052
VL - 30
SP - 411
EP - 430
JO - Culture & Psychology
JF - Culture & Psychology
SN - 1354-067X
IS - 2
ER -
ID: 359861896