Giuliana Mandich
Biographic Data
| ID | 105848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giuliana Mandich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giuliana |
| FAMILY NAME | Mandich |
| SIGNATURE | MANDICH G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cagliari |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2094-0011 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Framing optimism sociologically: Temporal complexity, collective affect, and cultures of optimism
This article critically examines the concept of optimism through a sociological lens, challenging its conventional portrayal as a unidimensional, inherently positive, and often unrealistic disposition towards the future. We first argue against an individualistic understanding of optimism, emphasizing the necessity of integrating it into social theory as a multifaceted, cultural, affective, and temporal phenomenon. By elucidating our criticism of …
Feeling the future: An exploration into studying youth futures
Il futuro come Utopia
This paper aims to understand how the first phase of exit from the pandemic has changed the temporality of everyday life and produced an affective atmosphere characterized by a positive attitude towards the future. I will start by analyzing the link between utopia and everyday life: on the one hand, as a privileged area of prefigurative practices in the different versions of utopian realism, and on the other, as trapped in the present in the theo…
‘It was like walking inside myself’: Youngwomen’s Practices of Domestication in the Gendered City
The recent Covid-19 pandemic has irrupted into youth’s lives and their relations to the city abruptly. Young people, in particular, make use of public space to forge relationships with peers for them significant: in this sense the city is a key source of identity in their journey towards adulthood. The city can be thought of as a space of their own, in a continuous process of co-construction of “their” city on the one hand, and the expression of …
Turning to character: Teachers' Narratives of Youth Futurity and Educational Responsibility
In this article I connect two topics that are relevant to debates in educational studies today: an understanding of how educational discourses and practices convey and produce a definite kind of future, and the debate on what has been defined the ‘turn to character’. I do so by means of interviews with secondary school teachers in Sardinia (Italy), discussing how participants conveyed a discourse characterized by an individualized view of their s…
Modes of engagement with the future in everyday life
This paper is aimed at understanding how we engage with the future in different ways in everyday life. Many empirical studies have emphasised that what we usually call 'imagination' of the future takes diverse forms and meanings. Varied narratives of the future that are possible coexist in daily life in a bumpy, semi-conscious and occasionally tense dialogue with one another. To understand this variation of narratives, a thorough exploration of t…
Futures in Practice: Regimes of Engagement and Teleoaffectivity
The article triangulates Schatzki's practice theory (2002) and Thévenot's (2001) 'regimes of engagement' with the nascent field of 'social futures' or future-oriented cultural sociology (e.g. Coleman and Tutton 2017; Mische 2009). We present a reading of Thévenot's regimes of engagement that is ontologically compatible with Schatzki's account of social practices and argue that practices are more or less enmeshed in distinct regimes of engagement.…
Imagined futures of everyday life in the circular economy
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Students’ narratives of the future: Imagined mobilities as forms of youth agency
In the context of the ‘iFuture’ research project, 341 18-year-old Sardinian students were asked to write an essay in which they imagined themselves at 90 and described what their futures (in the past) would look like. Such data allow us to investigate the notion of agency. Agency and the future are deeply intertwined: agency involves the idea of projection and implies anticipation; the ‘desired’ futures have an impact on the ways in which youth a…
Domesticating” the City: Family Practices in Public Space
The aim of this article is to rethink the analysis of urban life and the practices involving the use of urban space. To that end, we focus on the value that such practices have for social enquiry by employing the concept of domestication, which was originally elaborated by Silverstone in the field of media and technology scholarship. Specifically, the potential value of such usage is to embed practices that produce space in the complexity of the …
"Fragments of "Cultures of Mobility: Everyday Movement of Parents with Children in Cagliari, Southern Italy
This article develops a portrait of cultures of mobility emerging from empirical research conducted in Cagliari, southern Italy. The research focuses on the everyday mobility enacted by parents as they aim to take good care of their young children. To illuminate that mobility is more than the transport of bodies, but creates sets of different cultural meanings, we draw on Thévenot's work on "pragmatic regimes" (2001), or ways people use to engage…
Le Pacte de Ricorsa et le marche italien des changes au XVIIe siecle
Students’ narratives of the future: Imagined mobilities as forms of youth agency
In the context of the ‘iFuture’ research project, 341 18-year-old Sardinian students were asked to write an essay in which they imagined themselves at 90 and described what their futures (in the past) would look like. Such data allow us to investigate the notion of agency. Agency and the future are deeply intertwined: agency involves the idea of projection and implies anticipation; the ‘desired’ futures have an impact on the ways in which youth a…
Modes of engagement with the future in everyday life
This paper is aimed at understanding how we engage with the future in different ways in everyday life. Many empirical studies have emphasised that what we usually call 'imagination' of the future takes diverse forms and meanings. Varied narratives of the future that are possible coexist in daily life in a bumpy, semi-conscious and occasionally tense dialogue with one another. To understand this variation of narratives, a thorough exploration of t…
Futures in Practice: Regimes of Engagement and Teleoaffectivity
The article triangulates Schatzki's practice theory (2002) and Thévenot's (2001) 'regimes of engagement' with the nascent field of 'social futures' or future-oriented cultural sociology (e.g. Coleman and Tutton 2017; Mische 2009). We present a reading of Thévenot's regimes of engagement that is ontologically compatible with Schatzki's account of social practices and argue that practices are more or less enmeshed in distinct regimes of engagement.…
Feeling the future: An exploration into studying youth futures
Domesticating” the City: Family Practices in Public Space
The aim of this article is to rethink the analysis of urban life and the practices involving the use of urban space. To that end, we focus on the value that such practices have for social enquiry by employing the concept of domestication, which was originally elaborated by Silverstone in the field of media and technology scholarship. Specifically, the potential value of such usage is to embed practices that produce space in the complexity of the …
"Fragments of "Cultures of Mobility: Everyday Movement of Parents with Children in Cagliari, Southern Italy
This article develops a portrait of cultures of mobility emerging from empirical research conducted in Cagliari, southern Italy. The research focuses on the everyday mobility enacted by parents as they aim to take good care of their young children. To illuminate that mobility is more than the transport of bodies, but creates sets of different cultural meanings, we draw on Thévenot's work on "pragmatic regimes" (2001), or ways people use to engage…
Turning to character: Teachers' Narratives of Youth Futurity and Educational Responsibility
In this article I connect two topics that are relevant to debates in educational studies today: an understanding of how educational discourses and practices convey and produce a definite kind of future, and the debate on what has been defined the ‘turn to character’. I do so by means of interviews with secondary school teachers in Sardinia (Italy), discussing how participants conveyed a discourse characterized by an individualized view of their s…
Le Pacte de Ricorsa et le marche italien des changes au XVIIe siecle
Students’ narratives of the future: Imagined mobilities as forms of youth agency
In the context of the ‘iFuture’ research project, 341 18-year-old Sardinian students were asked to write an essay in which they imagined themselves at 90 and described what their futures (in the past) would look like. Such data allow us to investigate the notion of agency. Agency and the future are deeply intertwined: agency involves the idea of projection and implies anticipation; the ‘desired’ futures have an impact on the ways in which youth a…
Domesticating” the City: Family Practices in Public Space
The aim of this article is to rethink the analysis of urban life and the practices involving the use of urban space. To that end, we focus on the value that such practices have for social enquiry by employing the concept of domestication, which was originally elaborated by Silverstone in the field of media and technology scholarship. Specifically, the potential value of such usage is to embed practices that produce space in the complexity of the …
"Fragments of "Cultures of Mobility: Everyday Movement of Parents with Children in Cagliari, Southern Italy
This article develops a portrait of cultures of mobility emerging from empirical research conducted in Cagliari, southern Italy. The research focuses on the everyday mobility enacted by parents as they aim to take good care of their young children. To illuminate that mobility is more than the transport of bodies, but creates sets of different cultural meanings, we draw on Thévenot's work on "pragmatic regimes" (2001), or ways people use to engage…
Imagined futures of everyday life in the circular economy
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Modes of engagement with the future in everyday life
This paper is aimed at understanding how we engage with the future in different ways in everyday life. Many empirical studies have emphasised that what we usually call 'imagination' of the future takes diverse forms and meanings. Varied narratives of the future that are possible coexist in daily life in a bumpy, semi-conscious and occasionally tense dialogue with one another. To understand this variation of narratives, a thorough exploration of t…
Futures in Practice: Regimes of Engagement and Teleoaffectivity
The article triangulates Schatzki's practice theory (2002) and Thévenot's (2001) 'regimes of engagement' with the nascent field of 'social futures' or future-oriented cultural sociology (e.g. Coleman and Tutton 2017; Mische 2009). We present a reading of Thévenot's regimes of engagement that is ontologically compatible with Schatzki's account of social practices and argue that practices are more or less enmeshed in distinct regimes of engagement.…
Il futuro come Utopia
This paper aims to understand how the first phase of exit from the pandemic has changed the temporality of everyday life and produced an affective atmosphere characterized by a positive attitude towards the future. I will start by analyzing the link between utopia and everyday life: on the one hand, as a privileged area of prefigurative practices in the different versions of utopian realism, and on the other, as trapped in the present in the theo…
‘It was like walking inside myself’: Youngwomen’s Practices of Domestication in the Gendered City
The recent Covid-19 pandemic has irrupted into youth’s lives and their relations to the city abruptly. Young people, in particular, make use of public space to forge relationships with peers for them significant: in this sense the city is a key source of identity in their journey towards adulthood. The city can be thought of as a space of their own, in a continuous process of co-construction of “their” city on the one hand, and the expression of …
Turning to character: Teachers' Narratives of Youth Futurity and Educational Responsibility
In this article I connect two topics that are relevant to debates in educational studies today: an understanding of how educational discourses and practices convey and produce a definite kind of future, and the debate on what has been defined the ‘turn to character’. I do so by means of interviews with secondary school teachers in Sardinia (Italy), discussing how participants conveyed a discourse characterized by an individualized view of their s…
Feeling the future: An exploration into studying youth futures
Framing optimism sociologically: Temporal complexity, collective affect, and cultures of optimism
This article critically examines the concept of optimism through a sociological lens, challenging its conventional portrayal as a unidimensional, inherently positive, and often unrealistic disposition towards the future. We first argue against an individualistic understanding of optimism, emphasizing the necessity of integrating it into social theory as a multifaceted, cultural, affective, and temporal phenomenon. By elucidating our criticism of …
Sociology (9 works) · Art (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Futures contract (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (4 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)