Social imaginaries and Big History: Towards a new planetary consciousness?

Futures

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1056-1063

  Patomäki, Heikki ^a,b   Steger, Manfred B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Big History; Cosmic; Framing; Globalization; Metaphor; Narrative; Nationalism

Indexed keywords

ESTHETICS; ETHICS; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBALIZATION; NATIONALISM; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 78649707803     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2010.08.004     Document Type: Article

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