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This chapter sets out the key ideas that are explored within the book: the examination of the idea of a social imaginary; that a social imaginary can be organised around three key domains; and that social imaginaries are responses to challenges faced by societies. It will be argued that all societies live within a social imaginary, which describes and guides how people view the world. It is the implicit background that shapes people’s thoughts and actions, that explains their reality. Initially three domains will be explored to distinguish different social imaginaries; the temporal, spatial and ontological. Finally, there will be an outline of some of the probable challenges facing humankind in the 21st Century.
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Buckles, J. (2018). Setting the Scene: Domains, Challenges and the Social Imaginary. In: Education, Sustainability and the Ecological Social Imaginary. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74442-1_2
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