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Through the Utopian Lens of Opportunity: Using fiction and theatre to reimagine the post-COVID-19 future

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French J, Lovatt M & Wright V (2021) Through the Utopian Lens of Opportunity: Using fiction and theatre to reimagine the post-COVID-19 future. Sociological Review Magazine. https://thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/november-2021/methods-and-methodology/through-the-utopian-lens-of-opportunity/

Abstract
First paragraph: Can we imagine a future for older age that is based on desires, not simply practical needs? In Reimagining the Future in Older Age, we aim to draw on Ruth Levitas’ utopia as method theory to critique dominant, exclusionary narratives around ageing and explore the potential to create new ones. A utopian method “facilitates genuinely holistic thinking about possible futures, combined with the principles and practices of those futures. And it requires us to think about our conceptions of human needs and human flourishing in those possible futures. The core of utopia is the desire for being otherwise, individually and collectively, subjectively and objectively. Its expressions explore and bring to debate the potential contents and contexts of human flourishing.” (Levitas, 2013, p. xi).

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Sociological Review Magazine

StatusPublished
FundersESRC Economic and Social Research Council
Publication date online09/11/2021
Date accepted by journal15/10/2021
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/33615
Publisher URLhttps://thesociologicalreview.org/…-of-opportunity/
ISSN2754-1371

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People

Dr Melanie Lovatt

Dr Melanie Lovatt

Senior Lecturer, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology

Dr Valerie Wright

Dr Valerie Wright

Research Fellow, Dementia and Ageing

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Reimagining the Future in Older Age
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