Possibility Studies and Societal Futures: Imagination, Change and Preservation Across Disciplines (Palgrave Advances in Possibility Studies)

This book explores how people imagine, create, and sustain societal futures through the interplay of imagination, change, and preservation.Drawing on possibility studies and creativity research, it uses the concept of creative preservation as a unifying framework for understanding how communities creatively renew and take care of what already exists rather than only pursuing radical novelty. Emerging from discussions held at the 4th International Conference of Possibility Studies, the volume begins at the level of global social and ecological systems, examining the extent to which social innovation can function as a force of preservation and regeneration.It then turns to intergenerational creative continuity and ageing to reveal novelty in what societies neglect in old age, before reflecting on methodological considerations from new materialism for addressing work on societal futures.The book then critically discusses the past and present disruptions in academia and proposes perspectiv