Exploring New Temporal Horizons
A Conversation between Memories and Futures
By Carmen Leccardi, Paolo Jedlowski and Alessandro Cavalli
Published
Oct 20, 2023Page count
128 pagesISBN
978-1529213973Dimensions
203 x 127 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Oct 20, 2023Page count
128 pagesISBN
978-1529213980Dimensions
203 x 127 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Oct 20, 2023Page count
128 pagesISBN
978-1529213980Dimensions
203 x 127 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Exploring New Temporal Horizons
In this book, leading sociologists explore how, in our digital age of connectivity, temporal acceleration and real-time simultaneity impact personal experience, relations between generations and institutional processes.
The authors analyse the entanglement between past and future and explain how our ability to conceive the future is based not only upon the memory of the past, but also on forecasts about environmental crisis. Bringing memory and future studies into a unique dialogue, they highlight the crucial role of the past elaboration processes in freeing the future from the weight of trauma and renewing the ability to hope.
Offering a sophisticated and innovative social theory in a burgeoning field, this is a much-needed intervention to the current ‘temporal crisis’ of social life and sociological debates.
“With consistently insightful analysis, the authors ask us to remember the past and transcend the short-sighted present so we can address global problems by imagining alternative futures.” Michael Flaherty, Eckerd College
"A true tour-de-force. This book proposes an original vision of our experiences of time: a motley temporal composition in which the present, the future and the past are structured in an unprecedented way and without primacy of one over the other. An outstanding short book about the challenges of our time." Danilo Martuccelli, Université Paris Cité and Universidad Diego Portales
“This innovative book combines memory and future studies in order to trace different perceptions of time. Building on contemporary scholarship, the authors argue for renewed responsibility, imagination and collective action towards the past and future.” Siobhan Kattago, University of Tartu
Carmen Leccardi is Professor Emerita of Sociology of Culture at the University of Milan-Bicocca.
Paolo Jedlowski is Professor of Sociology at the University of Calabria.
Alessandro Cavalli is former Professor of Sociology at the University of Pavia
Introduction
1. Memories: What Memories Does the Future Need?
2. Futurity: Changing Futures in a Changing World
3. Memory and Future through the Generations
Conclusion
