Open AccessFutures of sustainability: Perspectives on social imaginaries and social transformation. A comment on Frank Adloff and Sighard Neckel’s research program
Author(s) -
Gerard Delanty
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
information sur les sciences sociales/social science information
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.301
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1461-7412
pISSN - 0539-0184
DOI - 10.1177/0539018421999562
Subject(s) - futures contract , sustainability , sociology , modernization theory , social transformation , social science , epistemology , social change , political science , economics , law , philosophy , ecology , financial economics , biology
This essay is a comment on the research program launched by Frank Adloff and Sighard Neckel. My comment is specifically focused on their research agenda as outlined in their trend-setting article, ‘Futures of sustainability as modernization, transformation, and control: A conceptual framework’. The comment is also addressed more generally to the research program of the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies ‘Futures of Sustainability’. I raise three issues: the first relates to the very idea of the future; the second concerns the notion of social imaginaries and the third question is focused on the idea of social transformation.