Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics

By C. Smith. 2017

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Speaking to the people? Money, trust, and central bank legitimacy in the age of quantitative easing (2016, background): “Here, too, fictions (Beckert, 2016), performativity (Holmes, 2014) and pretense (Braun, 2015) play a crucial role.”
• Multiple competitions in higher education: a conceptual approach (2019, background): “By participating in competitions, ‘fictional expectations’ (Beckert, 2016) are created that become powerful in the present where they are perceived as risks and uncertainties.”