Another World Is Possible
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Another World Is Possible

How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination

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eBook - ePub

Another World Is Possible

How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination

About this book

As the world confronts the fast catastrophe of Covid and the slow calamity of climate change, we also face a third, less visible emergency: a crisis of imagination. We can easily picture ecological disaster or futures dominated by technology. But we struggle to imagine a world in which people thrive and where we improve our democracy, welfare, neighbourhoods or education. Many are resigned to fatalism—yet they desperately want transformational social change.

This book argues that, although the threats are real, we can use creative imagination to achieve a better future: visualising where we want to go and how to get there. Political and social thinker Geoff Mulgan offers lessons we can learn from the past, and methods we can use now to open up thinking about the future and spark action.

Drawing on social sciences, the arts, philosophy and history, Mulgan shows how we can recharge our collective imagination. From Socrates to Star Wars, he provides a roadmap for the future.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. The Present: Imagination Stalled
  8. 2. What Is Imagination?
  9. 3. The Past: How Imagination Shaped Our World
  10. 4. Patterns: Making Sense of Imagination
  11. 5. The Future: How to Re-Energise Our Collective Imagination
  12. 6. From Ideas to Action: Possibilities for the Decades Ahead
  13. 7. Sources: Where Do Ideas Come From?
  14. 8. Pathways: Where Do Ideas Go?
  15. 9. The Limits of Imagination
  16. 10. Dangerous Imagination
  17. 11. Competing Political Imaginaries
  18. 12. Imagining Government in New Ways
  19. 13. Imagining a More Advanced Consciousness and a Wiser Society
  20. 14. Situating Imagination in Time
  21. 15. The Role of Art in Social Imagination
  22. 16. What to Do?
  23. Appendix 1: A Rough Theory of Social Imagination
  24. Appendix 2: Some Prompts for Imagination
  25. Notes
  26. Acknowledgements
  27. Index
  28. Back Cover