Imagined Futures: Hope, Risk and Uncertainty

Title: Imagined Futures: Hope, Risk and Uncertainty
Creator: Cook, Julia
Relation: Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65325-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Resource Type: book
Date: 2018
Description: Demonstrates how individuals use hope as a resource for coping with concerns about the long term future within the context of their everyday lives.Considers how the future has been conceptualised in sociological work. Uses interview-based data from 28 young adults, an underrepresented demographic, in studies of future oriented behaviours.
Subject: anxiety; everday lives; long-term futures; climate change; social and ecological decline; risk and uncertainty
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1441647
Identifier: uon:41490
Identifier: ISBN:9783319653259
Language: eng

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