Hana Hawlina is a PhD Candidate at the University of Neuchâtel (thesis advisor: prof. Tania Zittoun). Her PhD explores the relationship between imagination and sociogenesis, building a bridge between the person-oriented perspectives (sociocultural psychology, phenomenology, and neuroscience of the imagination) and the more sociological and philosophical accounts of the imaginary institution of society (Castoriadis, Anderson, Taylor, Appadurai, Ricœur, Arendt). She also tries to engage with the general public and popularise sociocultural psychology in Slovenia as a columnist for Dnevnik (national newspaper) and a co-host of a radio podcast on the future of humanity Quo vadis.

Project description

What do people imagine might happen in the future, and how is that related to the actual present, past, and the future? This project will explore the relationship between ontogenesis (personal development) and sociogenesis (societal development) in the case of imagining collective futures. We will investigate what people in different cultural and socio-economic contexts imagine might happen in the future, how that corresponds to current events, their political attitudes, personality traits and attitudes towards the future, behaviours in the present, and how people creatively construct personal narratives of the future from available cultural resources such as the media.

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