Futures literacy: communicational construction of a work competence in the “post-pandemic world”
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Communication, work, future, discourse, neoliberalismAbstract
This article discusses the notion of futures literacy, coined by UNESCO and disseminated by the World Economic Forum, to understand how the concept serves to build skills that individuals need to develop in order to adapt to the world of work and the capitalist system in the post-COVID-19 pandemic context. We analyze the discursive dynamics and communication processes that define the future as something to be managed and produced according to a project that corresponds to the neoliberal imaginary. The study methodology is based on the triangulation among the notion of social discourse, the analysis of neoliberal discourse, and the history of concepts. Among the main conclusions, we highlight the communicational construction of the pandemic context as an opportunity to call subjects to self-entrepreneurship, and the way in which competencies to manage futures express the ideology and crisis of contemporary capitalism.
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