Language Ideologies, Chinese Identities and Imagined Futures

Mapping and Imagined Futures: Beyond Colonising Cartography

This paper invites wide dialogue on the ways we map the world and the future .It also asks how dominant ways of mapping might affect our sense of agency, ethical regard for others, and levels of active community participation in shaping the future. Evidence is provided that what has been presented traditionally as the "exac" science of cartography is often deeply embedded in knowledgepower inte...

Imagined futures . Fictionality in economic action

Starting from the assumption that decision situations in economic contexts are characterized by fundamental uncertainty, the paper argues that the decision-making of intentionally rational actors is anchored in fictions. “Fictionality” in economic action is the inhabitation in the mind of an imagined future state of the world and the beliefs in causal mechanisms leading to this future state. Ac...

Myth, language, and complex ideologies

Ideologies use for their conservation and propagation persuasive methods of communication: Rhetoric. Rhetoric is analyzed from the semiotic and logical-mathematical points of view. The following hypotheses are established: 1) Language L is a self-explanatory system, mediated by a successive series of systems of cultural conventions. 2) Connotative significances of an ideological advertising rhe...

Imagined Country: National Environmental Ideologies in School Geography Textbooks

Imagined futures: young men's talk about fatherhood and domestic life.

As part of an extensive series of interviews about men and masculinity, small groups of 17 to 18-year-old male students were invited to look forward to their future romantic and domestic lives. Their responses were analysed using the approach and methods of discourse analysis in order to examine both the interpretative resources used within their accounts and to look at how the young men attemp...