Journal article
Imagination and social movements.
- Hawlina H University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Electronic address: hana.hawlina@unine.ch.
- Pedersen OC University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
- Zittoun T University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Electronic address: tania.zittoun@unine.ch.
- 2020-04-08
Published in:
- Current opinion in psychology. - 2020
English
Whether explicitly mentioned or not, imagination plays a key role in social movements. People's dissatisfaction with what is, their imagining of how things once were better, or of how things may become, often supports social movements. Social movements can, in turn, bring about new imaginations for people. After defining the notion of imagination and social movements, drawing on recent research, we review the literature along three main axes: the role of temporality in the relation between social movements and imagination; the relation between collective identities, social movement and imagination; and the resources that support imagination and social movements. We conclude by highlighting further dimensions to analyse the dynamics of imagination, which may open new ways to analyse the trajectories of social movements.
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- English
- Open access status
- closed
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- DOI 10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.02.009
- PMID 32259766
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/126685
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