Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination

As the world confronts both the fast catastrophe of Covid and the slow crisis of climate change, we also face a third, less visible emergency: a crisis of imagination. Millions of us can picture the world going awry, yet our confident visions of the future are largely dominated by technology and hardware. Most citizens struggle to envisage how we could live better-improve our democracy, welfare, neighborhoods or education-fueling a pervasive, pessimistic resignation.

This book argues that, although the threats are real, our fatalism has overshot. Achieving a better future depends on creative imagination: the ability to see where we might want to go, and how we might want to get there. Political veteran Geoff Mulgan offers the lessons we can learn from the past and the methods we can use now to open up our thinking about the future; to discover how to look at things not only in terms of what they are, but also what they could be.

Drawing on social sciences, the arts, philosophy and history, Mulgan shows how we can recharge our collective imagination. At a time when the public wants to see transformational social change, he provides a roadmap for the future.

Author: Geoff Mulgan
Publisher: Hurst & Co.
Published: 09/01/2022
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.61h x 5.78w x 1.35d
ISBN13: 9781787386914
ISBN10: 1787386910
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Radicalism

About the Author

Sir Geoff Mulgan is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London. Formerly he was chief executive of Nesta, and held several government roles (1997-2004), including as the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit director and as Downing Street's head of policy. This is his sixth book.