Recherches et thèses en cours

Societal Crises and Personal Sense-Making: Transitions, Mobility, and Imagination Across the Lifecourse

Societal crises are not only macro phenomena; they are also micro and personal. While the macrosocial impact of societal crises has received a lot of research attention, there has been less examination of how people navigate their own lifecourse through societal crises. Adopting a sociocultural approach of the lifecourse and a mobility lens, we will analyse longitudinal diaries in public digital repositories written over 20 years. We will examine how three different global crises (September 11th 2001, the financial crisis in 2008, and Covid-19 2020) have been experienced by diarists and how this affects their im/mobility trajectory and their imagination. Our approach makes three main contributions: we focus on the micro within the macro, namely individual sense-making and imagination within societal crises; we use a novel longitudinal dataset of online digital diaries to open a window on sense-making, mobility and imagination; we propose an innovative methodological combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis of longitudinal diaries.

 

NCCR – On the move National Center of Competence in Research –The Migration-Mobility Nexus

https://nccr-onthemove.ch/projects/overview-projects-phase-iii/