Nguyen Long Le Anh, Triliva Sofia, Davids Tine, Fragkiadaki Eva
Department of Public Administration, University of Twente, the Netherlands.
Department of Psychology, University of Crete, Greece.
Futures. 2022 Oct;143:103034. doi: 10.1016/j.futures.2022.103034. Epub 2022 Sep 12.
The covid-19 global syndemic has upended societies worldwide and concomitantly united the world in a shared experience of lockdowns, social distancing, and economic upheaval. In the face of great uncertainty, dystopian realities, and binding government edicts, people's everyday lives, sense of agency, actions, and interactions changed forcibly. Importantly, it has disrupted many practices and routines essential for (re)constituting a sense of belonging, an important element of personhood and individual wellbeing. Using the "Letters from the Future" method, we investigate how individuals imagine and present themselves in the future to navigate this social change. We ask " To answer this question, we combine discourse- and text analysis with network analysis to examine 47 letters that Greek participants wrote during the Spring 2020 lockdown. We explore how individuals present and introduce their future self, what this inhabits and what expressions, values, and practices they perform and negotiate as they reflect on and navigate their relational worlds. By and large, Greek letter writers recognize that inequities and injustices paved the way for the syndemic and express a pressing need for societal transformation.
新冠疫情全球大流行颠覆了世界各地的社会，同时让全世界共同经历了封锁、社交距离限制和经济动荡。面对巨大的不确定性、反乌托邦的现实以及具有约束力的政府法令，人们的日常生活、行动能力、行为和互动都被强行改变。重要的是，它扰乱了许多对于（重新）构建归属感至关重要的行为和日常活动，而归属感是人格和个人幸福的重要元素。我们采用“来自未来的信件”方法，研究个体如何在未来想象并展现自己，以应对这种社会变革。我们提出问题：“为了回答这个问题，我们将话语和文本分析与网络分析相结合，研究了希腊参与者在2020年春季封锁期间撰写的47封信。我们探究个体如何展现和介绍他们未来的自我，他们未来的自我处于何种情境，以及当他们反思并应对自己的关系世界时，会表现和协商哪些表达、价值观及行为。总体而言，希腊信件作者认识到不平等和不公正为这场大流行埋下了伏笔，并表达了对社会变革的迫切需求。
