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Letters from the Future: Discovering How Young People Make Sense of a Future Climate Changed World
Voost, T.H. (2023) Letters from the Future: Discovering How Young People Make Sense of a Future Climate Changed World.
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| Abstract: | This research aims to shine a light on how people between the ages of 18 and 28 (n = 30) make sense of this climate changed future. The sensemaking model by Dervin (1983) functions as the fundamental basis of this research with the respective elements of sensemaking (Situation, Bridge, Outcome and Gap). Using two narratives of the future (Deep ecology and Transhumanism) participants were assigned to one of these conditions and primed to think about the climate changed future. Consequently, participants were asked to mentally time travel 20 years into the future and write a letter to the present day. Through the analysis of these letters, it was found that the most pronounced elements in the letters were the Bridge and Outcome elements of a climate changed future, which means that the road towards this future and the eventual future were most prominently described by participants. These themes were mostly used by participants to talk about their personal advances such as how they lived, with whom they lived and in what way they lived. Next to that participants frequently described Deep ecology or Transhumanism in their Bridges and Outcomes. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology BSc (56604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/94240 |
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