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Austerity Futures: Imagining and materialising the future in an age of austerity.

紧缩未来：在紧缩时代想象和实现未来。

基本信息

批准号：
ES/J021512/2
负责人：
Rebecca Coleman
金额：
$ 1.55万
依托单位：
Goldsmiths University of London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2013 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FJ021512%2F2
关键词：
Austerity Futures Imagining materialising future

项目摘要

- In what ways is the future imagined?- Do changes in economic and social circumstances, like recession and austerity, change our view of what the future holds?- How is the future planned for, anticipated and/or pre-empted? How do austerity cuts encourage or discourage certain plans for the future?- What are the different ways in which policy or business attempt to prevent certain futures and bring other futures into being?-How do we experience the future in the present and what does a focus on the future tell us about today's values, beliefs and ideals?In recent years the idea that we are progressing towards a future that is better than the past and present has tended to dominate Western societies. Barack Obama campaigned for the US Presidency on a message of hope in 2008 and in 1997 the Labour election anthem promised that 'things could only get better'. However, this optimism about the future has been placed in doubt following the 2008 global financial crisis and in the face of predictions about environmental catastrophes, terrorism, food and security issues. It seems that today, in what David Cameron calls a new 'age of austerity', hopes that the future will not be better -richer, healthier, happier- for the next generation are diminishing. In the context of an austerity society, this series of events brings together leading researchers with those working on techniques in the public, private and third sectors for mapping the future in order to provide a forum for the exchange of knowledge and understanding and to stimulate debate and discussion on the future. The series is particularly interested in addressing how a shift to an austerity society, where both personal and state thrift is emphasized as a means to correct a flatlining economy, effects the kinds of futures that are seen as possible. Are hopes for the future that new medical and technological developments promise on the wane, or, conversely, is technology seen as a means of generating a better future? Are activists' conceptions of a more environmentally friendly society diminished or re-invigorated by austerity measures? Have our aspirations for the next generation faded as a result of widespread economic, social and policy change?The series of five seminars and one international conference will be held at different universities across England and at the Work Foundation, London. They will cover topics such as environment, health and medicine, finance, design, new media and security. They will also explore more everyday experiences of and plans for the future, including life narratives and patterns of inequality. In an austerity society, are the futures of some people more likely to (be seen to) decline or stagnate? If hopes and aspirations are reduced, do these feed into and reproduce unequal power relations?Key principles of organization for the seminar series include an emphasis on ensuring that organizers and participants come from a diverse range of locations/positions within higher education; a commitment to ensuring the participation and engagement of a number on non-academic stakeholders and user groups; and the dissemination of research through the creation of a website to include filmed or written versions of all papers delivered during the series and other relevant materials. Interested parties will also be encouraged to become involved through a Facebook page and Twitter account.The application is put together by a team of experienced and early career researchers from the universities of Lancaster, Durham, York and Goldsmiths College, London and the Social Futures Observatory. The team have track records in this field and have demonstrated that they can produce a series of events that is original and intellectually exciting and designed to have impact outside of academia, on policy making, third sector and industry thinking.

- 未来是怎样想象出来的？经济和社会环境的变化，如经济衰退和紧缩，会改变我们对未来的看法吗？未来是如何规划、预测和/或先发制人的？紧缩削减如何鼓励或阻碍未来的某些计划？政策或企业试图阻止某些未来并实现其他未来的不同方式是什么？我们如何在当下体验未来，关注未来告诉我们今天的价值观、信仰和理想是什么？近年来，我们正在朝着一个比过去和现在更好的未来前进的想法往往主导着西方社会。巴拉克奥巴马在2008年竞选美国总统时发出了希望的信息，1997年工党的竞选歌曲承诺“事情只会变得更好”。然而，在2008年全球金融危机之后，面对有关环境灾难、恐怖主义、粮食和安全问题的预测，这种对未来的乐观态度受到了质疑。今天，在大卫卡梅隆所说的新的“紧缩时代”，似乎希望未来不会更好-更富裕，更健康，更幸福-为下一代正在减少。在一个紧缩的社会背景下，这一系列活动将主要研究人员与公共、私营和第三部门从事绘制未来技术工作的人员聚集在一起，以便为交流知识和理解提供一个论坛，并激发关于未来的辩论和讨论。该系列特别感兴趣的是如何转向一个紧缩的社会，其中个人和国家节俭都被强调为纠正经济停滞的一种手段，影响了被视为可能的未来。新的医学和技术发展对未来的希望是否正在减弱，或者相反，技术是否被视为创造更美好未来的手段？活动家们对一个更环保的社会的概念是被紧缩措施削弱了还是被重申了？我们对下一代的期望是否因广泛的经济、社会和政策变化而消退？这一系列的五个研讨会和一个国际会议将在英格兰各地的不同大学和伦敦的工作基金会举行。它们将涵盖环境、健康和医学、金融、设计、新媒体和安全等主题。他们还将探索更多关于未来的日常经验和计划，包括生活叙事和不平等模式。在一个紧缩的社会里，一些人的未来更有可能（被视为）下降或停滞吗？如果希望和愿望减少了，这些是否会助长和重现不平等的权力关系？组织研讨会系列的主要原则包括强调确保组织者和参与者来自高等教育的不同地点/职位;承诺确保一些非学术利益攸关方和用户群体的参与和参与;以及通过建立一个网站来传播研究成果，其中包括系列会议期间发表的所有论文的电影或书面版本，其他相关材料。此外，还将鼓励感兴趣的各方通过Facebook页面和Twitter账户参与进来。该应用程序由来自兰开斯特大学、达勒姆大学、约克大学和伦敦金史密斯学院以及社会未来观察站的经验丰富和早期职业研究人员组成的团队共同编写。该团队在这一领域有着良好的记录，并证明他们可以制作一系列原创和令人兴奋的活动，旨在对学术界以外的政策制定，第三部门和行业思维产生影响。