Imaginaries and the study of the future

Anette Hallin (), Christoffer Andersson (), Lucia Crevani (), Caroline Ingvarsson (), Chris Ivory (), Inti Lammi (), Eva Lindell () and Anna Uhlin ()

Chapter 1 in Creating the Future of Work, 2025, pp 1-10 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In this first chapter we lay out the groundwork for the book by explaining why ideas about the future and technologies matter, and how these are expressed in imaginaries. Imaginaries are defined as ideas that we humans form together about our joint future based on shared discourses as well as on material realities. As imaginaries are embedded in the present, the book sets out to explore imaginaries about the future of technology and work that are emerging from contemporary organisational life and society, and how these fare against the here and now and in relation to each other. Based on this exploration, the book encourages the reader to question and challenge the imaginaries which readers themselves deploy to shape their assumptions about the future.

Keywords: Future of work; Imaginaries; Technology at work; Discourse; Material realities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035324477
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