Essays about: "imagined futures"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words imagined futures.

1. 1. Education, Employability and Imagining the Future: A Minor Field Study of Goals and Motivations in a South African Small-Scale Development Programme

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Melina Pettersson; Julia Rönnbäck Finocchio; [2023]
   Keywords : Youth unemployment; Development; Education; Inequality; South Africa; Employability; Horizons of opportunity; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world, and that shows in the distribution of opportunities amongst South Africans. In the face of political failures to deliver improvements for unemployed youth NGO projects become more important avenues for young people to acquire resources needed to improve their lives. READ MORE

3. 2. Multiple Futures, Diverse Paths : A Study of How Vietnamese Blockchain Professionals Imagine, Enact andNegotiate Futures

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

   Author : Ossian Nordgren; [2023]
   Keywords : Blockchain; Web3; Vietnam; Future Imaginaries; Value; Emerging Technologies;

   Abstract : This thesis dives into the future imaginaries of blockchain professionals in Hanoi and Saigon. Looking at sites of futures enactment, and constant negotiations around an emerging technology, economy, and start-up ecology. READ MORE

4. 3. The Future is Familiar - Young Swedes Imagining Work-life Balance in Their Future Adulthood

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Franciska Dis Brodersen; [2022]
   Keywords : imagined futures; young people; work-life balance; gender inequality; the second shift; Sweden; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the imagined futures of young Swedes with a focus on how they envision creating work-life balance and how they aim to divide their time between paid and unpaid work. This is done by analyzing written accounts of 168 upper secondary students from both university preparatory schools (UP) and vocational schools (VO) in a middle-sized town in Sweden. READ MORE

5. 4. New Stories of Resistance: The Right to Say NO, Extractivism and Development Alternatives in South Africa

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Lisa Pier; [2022]
   Keywords : extractivism; development; resistance; re-imagination; decoloniality; alternatives; self-determination; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Despite growing interest in movements, mobilisations and communities rising up against extractivism, little research has focused on the radical political potential these mobilisations bear for envisioning just and sustainable futures. Taking the Right to Say NO in South Africa as a case study and point of departure, this thesis examines development alternatives envisioned within anti-extractivist resistance. READ MORE

6. 5. Beyond the fossil era: transformative pedagogy for sustainability

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

   Author : Ludwig Bengtsson Sonesson; [2022]
   Keywords : Futures; Education; Transformation; Imagination; Sustainability Science; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Society faces multiple and interconnected crises that require transformation. Education has long been theorized as key to transformation, yet an important driver of transformation, imagination, is marginalised within pedagogical approaches to sustainability. READ MORE