Emerging Technologies/Life at the Edge of the Future invites us to think forward from our
present moment of planetary, public and everyday crisis, through the prism of emerging …

Hope has long been seen as essential to motivate social movement activism. However, as
seen in the transition movement and collapsology networks, a 'postapocalyptic' …

In this study, we examine whether Willingness To Pay (WTP) for green energy is related to
hope and several attitudes towards climate change, namely, denial, worry and level of …

Young adults tend to be more optimistic about the future than older people, even during
social and economic crises such as those created by the COVID pandemic. In this paper, we …

This paper is aimed at understanding how we engage with the future in different ways in
everyday life. Many empirical studies have emphasised that what we usually call …

В условиях глобальной турбулентности общество оказывается в парадоксальной
ситуации. С одной стороны, будущее становится все более неопределенным, а …

The article triangulates Schatzki's practice theory (2002) and Thévenot's (2001)'regimes of
engagement'with the nascent field of 'social futures' or future-oriented cultural sociology (eg …

The global refugee crisis presents a complex challenge, with millions experiencing
protracted displacement in inhospitable conditions. This study examines the lived …

This paper examines the dynamics of hope in creative industries in the city of Accra in
Ghana. Building on theoretical insights from geography, anthropology and sociology that …

Recent years have seen the rise of a 'postapocalyptic environmentalism', which sees
environmental catastrophe as ongoing or inevitable and therefore rejects the hope of …