Volume 13 | 2024

The investigation conducted in this volume by Silvia Cittadini, Majlinda Bregasi, Thomas Christiansen, Claudia Annovi, and Sabina de Silva is part of the larger project The Clash of Narratives: The Representation of the Future in Popular Culture and Traditional Media and Their Political Use, financed by the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and carried out by a large group of scholars. The project had two main objectives: first, to investigate the dynamics through which the old models of the good society adopted by 20th-century ideological families are being replaced – or integrated – with materials mediated by popular culture, and second, to explore how representations of the future influence elites and political choices.