Future Identity Research Articles

From Imagination to Innovation: Using Participatory Design Fiction to Envision the Future of Accessible Gaming Wearables for Players with Upper Limb Motor Disabilities

The interest in enhancing video game interactions through wearable technology has grown, yet accessible gaming with wearables remains underexplored. This study employs participatory design fiction, enabling disabled gamers to envision a future with tailored gaming wearables while critiquing technology. We conducted a two-phase study. Phase one involved in-depth interviews with upper limb motor disability participants; we developed a fictitious gaming wearable by analyzing the data using reflexive thematic analysis. A smaller group iterated on the wearable in phase two to ideate on ideal futures with accessible gaming wearables. Using data and dialogic/performance analysis, we crafted a design fiction diegetic prototype as a tech review video. This research highlights disabled gamers' unique needs and experiences around gaming wearables. It offers an innovative diegetic prototype for accessible gaming tech. Our methodological contribution merges narrative inquiry and dialogic/performance analysis in participatory design fiction research, providing a valuable approach for future studies.

The Tenses of the Greek Metamorphoses

Abstract Greece is a country of paradoxes: marvels and tragedies co-exist amid cultural tensions and contrasts, challenging every step and questioning the past, present, and future identity of its people. This article explores how the Greek library landscape has changed, following Tsimpoglou’s segmentation of the development of libraries in Greece, from the early isolationist years to 2000, when common sense led to collaboration; and the period from 2001, with critical oversight of the influential factors in understanding how Greek libraries can be fully functional and beneficial to society.

Voices From the Periphery: Lived Experiences of Women International Students From the Global South Studying at U.K. Universities

Intersectional perspectives on International Student Mobility are burgeoning; however gendered aspects are rarely examined. This paper offers a contribution to this lacuna and provides further understanding of how gender shaped the experiences of six women international students from the Global South. The women participated in semi-structured interviews as part of a wider study analysing ISM in relation to socio-economic status (SES). The women could be seen to be aligned with the ‘post-feminist neoliberal subject’ with evidence of making choices, a desire for financial independence and strong career aspirations. However, life stage and home country cultures intersected with transnational caring for four of the women. This resulted in a re-alignment of ‘success’ upon completion of educational opportunities which reflect gendered inequalities in society. This suggests that there can be a clash of the imagined future identity of a ‘strong independent career woman’ with naturalised aspects of femininity for women international students.

Illuminating radical spatial imaginaries: Counter-mapping urban environmental justice struggles for the city yet to come

Urban greening is not a neutral intervention on the social fabric. Critical analyses of the green city often concentrate on greening's top-down, hegemonic, and large-scale manifestations while neglecting the role of social movements. Aiming to address this gap, we ground discussions of “urbanized nature” within discussions of radical spatial imaginaries, concentrating on their performativity. We propose “counter-mapping” as an engaged methodology, developed with local activists, to illuminate radical green imaginaries. Examining 13 environmental justice struggles in Barcelona, we find place imaginaries to be tied to preserving unique sites, linking historical trauma to fears of future spatial fixes, and projecting inclusive, liveable neighborhoods as ideal futures. This study underscores the importance of comprehending how resistance to the prevailing “green-paradox” manifests in local contexts. Through this exercise, we might help make clearer the axes of common/divergent imaginaries and forge alliances, dialogues, and reflection among local movements and decision makers in Barcelona and beyond.

Review of Growing and Eating Sustainably: Agroecology in Action

Dana James and Evan Bowness’ book, Growing and eating sustainably: Agroecology in action, provides a portrayal of existing sites of a radically different food system than our present industrial one. The authors explore the origin of agroecology as a social movement, before expanding on the ways in which grower-eater relations can and are being strengthened in southern Brazil. Finally, they envision a future of global food systems that centre the justice and intersectionality explicit within the agroecological movement. The authors’ presentation of both photography and text draws individual stories out from abstract notions of ideal futures and brings them to life with their particularities.

In their Ideal Future, Are Preservice Teachers Willing to Integrate Technology in Their Teaching and why?

Preservice teachers’ beliefs regarding technology integration significantly influence their future teaching practices. This qualitative study examines the beliefs and intentions of 51 preservice teachers within the context of technology integration in their envisioned teaching scenarios. Thematic analysis identified three primary themes. Firstly, participants expressed their intentions to integrate technology into teaching, with 74% exhibiting a high intention, 22% moderate, and 4% low. Secondly, value beliefs encompassed positive perceptions supported by interest and usefulness, including eight roles of technology (e.g., facilitators, quality enhancers) and four concerns (e.g., equity, safety). Negative beliefs such as distraction were also identified. Thirdly, pedagogical beliefs varied, with 49% holding student-centered views, 37% being teacher-centered, and 14% balanced perspectives. Crosstab analysis explored relationships between technology integration intention levels, value beliefs, and pedagogical beliefs. These findings offer insights into preservice teachers’ beliefs on technology integration, informing teacher education programs and strategies to enhance technology integration in classrooms.

Violent abduction of Yemenite Jewish children in Israel: A historical study on the intergenerational dynamics of oppression and resistance

In the founding years of the State of Israel, numerous Jewish children who immigrated to Israel with their parents from Arab countries, especially Yemen, were removed and disappeared. Some of these children were adopted by people in Europe and the USA, while others remained missing. The article reconstructs the efforts to clarify the fate of these children. The disappearance of the children is analysed in the context of the Zionist founding myth and the colonial genesis of the State of Israel and interpreted as an early form of bio-politics with racist connotations. Particular attention is paid to the traumatic consequences of this practice for the people affected and the psycho-structure of Israeli society. Finally, the question is posed as to how today’s young generation of descendants of immigrants is coming to terms with the history of their ancestors and what consequences this could have for the future identity of Israeli society and its positioning between ‘Occident’ and ‘Orient’.

When, at what speed, and how? Resilient transformation of the Vesdre river basin (Belgium) following the 2021 floods

BackgroundDual crises happen when an acute shock unfolds in the context of a creeping crisis. The July 2021 floods in the Vesdre river basin (Wallonia, Belgium) is a typical case of such dual crises in the context of climate change. This study is based on 16 semi-structured interviews (conducted in Spring 2023) with 10 mayors, 4 representatives of the Public Service of Wallonia, 1 person working for the federal government, and 4 project managers, coupled with a document analysis (n = 13). It investigates the temporal strategies that connect short and long-term considerations in the aftermath of this disaster (timing, futuring, pacing, cyclical adaptation, and determining time horizons), at two different governmental levels: river basin and municipal level.ResultsIn general, the window of opportunity to improve disaster resilience has been seized. Several studies were initiated by the Walloon region that shape the idea of an ideal future for the river basin and give recommendations for how to reach it. Unfortunately, those recommendations still come late compared to the temporal reality of the reconstruction process. Municipalities wish to strengthen disaster resilience as soon as possible, but they have to prioritize certain actions over others because of limited resources. The recommendations are considered flexible enough to adapt strategies to future contexts, but no monitoring and evaluation system for doing so has been implemented so far. In addition, clear policy agendas with transformational goals are scarce, and they diverge between the river basin and the municipalities. All these temporal strategies are shaped by elements of the institutional policy arrangement: resources, which affect them all, as well as actors, power, and formal rules, which affect some. These policy dimensions notably slow down the implementation of disaster resilience strategies and limit the determination of consensual time horizons.ConclusionsThe temporal strategies are passively shaped by the policy arrangement dimensions to a greater extent than actively chosen by the stakeholders. A structural transformation of the institutional policy arrangement is therefore needed to enable more coherent temporal strategies between different governance levels and to facilitate the consideration of long-term resilience during the recovery process from disasters.

Scripting solutions for the future: the OECD’s advocacy of happiness and well-being

ABSTRACT Over the past decade, the OECD has gradually shifted its governing mechanism from promoting ‘best practices’ based on comparative data on pupils’ cognitive skills to actively advocating for individual and collective well-being as an alternative and ideal future. This article focuses on the OECD’s use of ‘techno-scientific fictive scripts’ as a strategy to promote happiness and well-being as solutions to anticipated crises, despite their conceptual ambiguity and token usage. It analyses how the OECD’s recent ‘Future of Education’ projects have sought to steer its audience towards shared concerns and expectations of the future, while simultaneously asserting its technical expertise in future studies methodologies. It argues that by returning from endorsing data-driven policies to making futuristic claims using future studies methodologies, the OECD endeavours to redefine itself as both a pathfinder and a problem solver, simultaneously blending its human capital imperatives with technological inevitability in its vision of the future.

Family‐building desires among adopted adolescents with lesbian, gay, and heterosexual parents

AbstractObjectiveThis study qualitatively examined family‐building desires of diverse adopted adolescents.BackgroundResearch on parenting aspirations has rarely included youth with LGBTQ+ parents and/or from adoptive families. Understanding diverse adopted adolescents' feelings about parenthood may yield insights regarding identity and ideas about family.MethodsWe conducted a thematic analysis of interview data from 48 adopted adolescents (27 were LGBTQ+) in the United States, aged 13 to 18, from lesbian, gay, and heterosexual two‐parent families.ResultsMost adolescents desired future parenthood, after achieving other normative milestones, and they typically did not feel familial or societal pressure to become parents. LGBTQ+ participants showed a preference for adoption while transracially adopted adolescents preferred biological parenthood.ConclusionGuided by developmental approaches about identity and adoption, as well as queer family theory, we found that teenagers adopted by lesbian, gay, and heterosexual couples generally envisioned parenthood for themselves. Plans to do so varied by minoritized gender, sexual, and racial/ethnic identities. Thus, an intersectional perspective is imperative to understand youths' thoughts about family building.ImplicationsOur findings reveal insights into adopted adolescents' constructed future identities. Practitioners' understanding of adopted adolescents' development and future planning may be enhanced when adolescents' perspectives are considered.

Constructing Dreams Using Generative AI

Generative AI tools introduce new and accessible forms of media creation for youth. They also raise ethical concerns about the generation of fake media, data protection, privacy and ownership of AI-generated art. Since generative AI is already being used in products used by youth, it is critical that they understand how these tools work and how they can be used or misused. In this work, we facilitated students’ generative AI learning through expression of their imagined future identities. We designed a learning workshop - Dreaming with AI - where students learned about the inner workings of generative AI tools, used text-to-image generation algorithms to create their imaged future dreams, reflected on the potential benefits and harms of generative AI tools and voiced their opinions about policies for the use of these tools in classrooms. In this paper, we present the learning activities and experiences of 34 high school students who engaged in our workshops. Students reached creative learning objectives by using prompt engineering to create their future dreams, gained technical knowledge by learning the abilities, limitations, text-visual mappings and applications of generative AI, and identified most potential societal benefits and harms of generative AI.

No identity connections without representation? Exploring associations between neighbourhood opportunities, ethnic–ideal alignment and well‐being in Black, Indigenous and other youths of colour in Canada

AbstractIn Canada, Black, Indigenous and other youths of colour often have high aspirations, but many are not sure that they are attainable. Context can signal what is in or out of reach to youths, particularly environments that send repeated and proximal signals, like neighbourhoods. Notably, the Social Identity Approach suggests that in neighbourhoods with people like them doing well socioeconomically or being well represented in leadership, youths may see a place for people similar to them, which in turn could benefit how they view their identities and experience well‐being. In this exploratory research, Black, Indigenous and other youths of colour in Montréal (n = 179) were surveyed about their neighbourhood, social and future identities and well‐being. Regressions suggest that youths' neighbourhoods predict the extent to which they perceive that opportunities are accessible to people like them. Youths who reported more opportunities for people similar to them in their neighbourhood tended to report higher alignment between their racial/ethnic and ideal future identities and higher flourishing. The findings highlight the connection between neighbourhood factors—such as cues about whether similar people are welcomed, valued, and have access to opportunities—and the identities and well‐being of Black, Indigenous and other youths of colour.

Cheating is a professional identity formation problem.

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EFL students’ motivational currents during Extensive Reading Programs: A retrodictive qualitative modelling

Motivation to read, the driving force to achieve one’s reading goals, plays a significant role in language learning as it relates to reading engagement and achievement. Its presence is prominently necessary for a longer learning period. This article explores the features of nine pre-service students’ motivational currents and how their motivation changes throughout the task performance in Extensive Reading Programs (henceforth ERPs). Data were collected from diaries, and a retrodictive qualitative model was applied to recount the experiences of the student participants’ motivational currents following Dörnyei’s Directed Motivational Currents (DMC). Themes of diaries and interviews were generated following the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. The findings show that the features of DMC are salient and functioning throughout the student’s learning experiences and facilitate the construction of their future identity as readers. Four patterns of motivational currents during the students’ learning were a steady wave, slight wave, moderate wave, and great wave patterns. The variability and stability of task performance motivation indicate that students’ motivational trajectories are unique, conditional, and context-bound. Identifications of the sources of motivators and demotivators provide hints for designing more engaging classroom activities, enriching the task features, and sustaining students’ motivation. This study concludes with possible directions for future motivation research.

Extension of ECHR jurisprudence on respect for human rights in national criminal proceedings and compliance with its judgments in disputed territories

This article contends that these proposals should not be interpreted as ministerial alterations in supranational judicial procedure, nor as resolving a dispute on whether the ECHR should prioritize individual or constitutional justice. Instead, they should be seen as posing more profound inquiries regarding the future identity of the Court. The Article specifically supports the ECtHR's acknowledgment of 'incorporation' into national legal systems as a fundamental structural principle. This pertains to the ability to determine decisions made by the national court in criminal proceedings before the ECHR and to honor them in disputed territories. This contradicts the subsidiary theory that has always upheld the Convention since its establishment.

Childhood, Youthhood and Social Inclusion in the Construction of African Future Identities

Childhood, Youthhood and Social Inclusion in the Construction of African Future Identities

National Parks as the materialized imaginary of ecological civilization in China

Through the case of the Three-River-Source National Park, this study mobilizes the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries to scrutinize how China’s ecological civilization as an application of sustainable imaginaries is materialized into national parks. Drawing on the extensive literature of science and technology studies that conceptualizes sociotechnical imaginaries as a vision of an ideal future, this study opens the perspective on the complex relationship between sustainable imaginaries and national parks. By combining content analysis of Chinese policies with semi-structured interviews, this study highlights translation and coordination as the most critical elements in realizing the materialization of ecological civilization. Furthermore, the ecological civilization mobilizes various policy instruments to materialize the national park as its materialized imaginary. Finally, the ecological civilization has shaped China’s specific discourse on sustainable development and has been put into practice through national parks.

Visi Teologis dan Manajemen Pembinaan Calon Imam berdasarkan Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis

The purpose of this study is to comprehend the basic guidelines of priestly formation in which priesthood candidates purify their vocation motivation and align it with the priestly vision, which isbased on a theological vision of Christ as the High Priest. This theological vision of Christ as the High Priest is then elaborated specifically in a rule of life for the priesthood candidates. This rule of life is constructed based on six aspects of formation: personality, spirituality, community, intellectual, pastoral, and vocation. After interpreting the theological vision, the priesthood candidates are invited to develop their vocation together in a community of priesthood candidates where they are invited todevelop themselves together in various fields of skills. This is what is called managerial activity, which even in formation, the elements of management affect the lives of the priesthood candidates. Based on this, the priestly formation is based on a formation guideline contained in the Ratio FundamentalisInstitutionis Sacerdotalis formation document. The goal of priestly formation is for the candidates to realize their future identity as priests of Christ. Therefore, in order to achieve this goal, priesthood candidates engage themselves in various activities that lead to the goal of formation. In the management term, this cycle is referred to as management functions. The management function itself consists of planning, organizing, implementing, supervising, and evaluating.

Finding the Future Identity of Broadcasting Studies : Academia and Field Collaboration Model

Finding the Future Identity of Broadcasting Studies : Academia and Field Collaboration Model

The The Distortion In Libyan Architecture's Identity Between Its Past And Present

Architectural composition, as a stand-alone form, created a unity of urban identity, gathering in the whole and forming civilization through the ages. As well, buildings with the character of traditional architectural style may create a sense of belonging and belongingness that is distinctive and cannot be duplicated, as well as symbolizing people's identities. In addition, it is still significant that architectural identity plays a role in improving place identity, memory, and belonging. Architecture and place identity have become the central themes of architectural debates in Libya; their form and content are flawed and transformational due to social factors and policies. As a result, realizing these transformations and solving the problem of architectural identity is more important. In this working paper, a qualitative, broad review of Libyan city identity is presented. This article included examples of architecture in use throughout Libya to gain a thorough understanding of the turmoil that is relevant to the present and future identities of Libyan cities. As a conclusion, the article summarized some facts that could be considered from reviews of the heritage of local architecture as references and from general discussions about the current situation in order to develop the vision of building local identities.