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Imagination in people and societies on the move: A sociocultural psychology perspective.
- Source :
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Culture & Psychology . Dec2020, Vol. 26 Issue 4, p654-675. 22p. - Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- This paper proposes a sociocultural psychology approach to mobility. It distinguishes geographical mobility, drawing on mobility studies, from symbolic mobility, that can be achieved through imagination. After the presentation of a theoretical framework, it examines the possible interplay between geographical and symbolic mobility through three case studies: that of people moving to a retirement home, that of a young woman's trajectory through the Second World War in the UK, and that of families in repeated geographical mobility. The paper thus shows that imagination may expand or guide geographic mobility, but also, in some case, create some stability when geographic mobility becomes excessive. More importantly, it shows that over time, people engage in trajectories of imagination: their various geographical and symbolic mobilities can eventually transform their very mode of imagining. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *RESIDENTIAL mobility
*WORLD War II
*GEOGRAPHIC mobility
*IMAGINATION
*YOUNG women
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1354067X
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Culture & Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 144952518
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067X19899062