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Glăveanu, Vlad orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-6029-6718 (2024) Possible. In: Darbellay, Frédéric, (ed.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity. Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences series . Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 381-384. ISBN 978 1 03531 795 0

Abstract
The possible is, by definition, a transdisciplinary topic. The study of the possible bridges the gap between the natural and the social sciences while keeping a strong grounding in the arts and humanities. In this entry, I consider four key questions within Possibility Studies and argue for the need to answer them using a transdisciplinary approach: What kinds of psychological, social, material, technological and cultural resources and processes enable our engagement with the possible? How do individual differences, environmental contexts and situational factors ‘collaborate' in shaping experiences of the possible? What is the relation between individual, group, community and societal forms of becoming aware of and exploring possibilities? How do power relations structure our imagination of the possible and with what consequences for how self and society are constituted? The entry ends with reflections on how to decide which possibilities to enact and which to reject, which possibilities are valuable and which are harmful, the core of the ‘ethics of possibility’.
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Item Type:Book Section
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:possible; Possibility Studies; sociocultural theory; transdisciplinary; ethics
Subjects:Social Sciences > Education
Social Sciences > Sociology
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > DCU Business School
Research Institutes and Centres > Centre for Possibility Studies
Publisher:Edward Elgar Publishing
Official URL:https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/elgar-encyclopedi...
Copyright Information:Author
ID Code:33112
Deposited On:18 Aug 2026 09:49 by Tam Nguyen . Last Modified 18 Aug 2026 09:49
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