Using narrative futuring as a means of facing liminal employment status and space
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19569362 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sofia Triliva (0000-0002-4075-2579), Anneke Sools (0000-0001-8484-7476), Theofanis Philippas |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 289-305 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2326-3598 • E-ISSN: 2326-3601 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/qup0000185 |
| OpenAlex | W3048067052 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Unemployment and precarious employment have been treated as liminal states where people’s everyday lives are rendered into an “in-between” position, a place where the uncertainty of meaning and decision-making prevail. Liminality has also been applied as a way of understanding a changing social world, implying a transformation in consciousness emanating from prolonged indeterminism. To develop a clearer understanding of coping with liminal status, we used a narrative futuring approach (i.e., a reflexive practice to elicit narratives from the viewpoint of a desired future). Twenty “letters from the future” were written by unemployed and precariously employed young adults with higher education degrees living in Crete. The letters engaged the participants in the process of critical reflection, where they imagined eutopian lifeworlds by attempting to place the prevalent “crisis story” in the background, embracing or confronting liminal status. Implications focus on how the narrative future-making approach can be applied to disentangle the complexities involved in understanding liminal states and their inherent transformative potential where both personal, interpersonal, and the broader social and societal context come into awareness
Aesthetics · Art · Liminality · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management · Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research · Retirement, Disability, and Employment
| Citations per year | 1.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |