Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/295118 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Citation: 
[Journal:] Culture & Psychology [ISSN:] 1461-7056 [Volume:] 30 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] Sage [Place:] London [Year:] 2023 [Pages:] 411-430
Publisher: 
Sage, London
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Covid-19
Denmark
imagining
future
morality
social change
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