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Positive future daydreams as everyday escape attempts from consumption scripts

May 28, 2010

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This is the presentation text for the CCT conference. Written with Becky Jenkins and Lizzie Nixon   Cultural scripts suggest that success in life is predominantly expressed in terms of acquiring new and ‘better’ objects and an upscaling lifestyle. Visions of the perfect future tend to be underpinned by financial or material wealth as we… [Read more…]

Losing sight of the future in an overloaded present

May 11, 2010

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One of the really nice things about having clever PhD students to supervise is that they make you really think about new things.  This then gets mixed up with your other work and also with teaching. As Becky has been working on her data, and as I have re-visited some of the ideas in her… [Read more…]

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