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14 | www.limina-graz.eu In the first article of this edition, Richard Sturn investigates “climate poli- cies” and the “pension system” from an economic perspective. He ques- tions the individualistic approach to evaluation criteria and proposes to in- stead base them on more general and comprehensive aspects that encour- age a reconciliation of interest between generations. Jochen Ostheimer also addresses climate change as an example to explore how narratives shape our vision of the future. Looking at Anthropocene discourse, he analyses how ideas of the future are communicated through narratives and considers their potential to enter public debate through the method of storytelling. The focus in particular lies on how such future sce- narios are created and in how far they encourage people to take action. The subject of Şenol Yaĝdı’s article are students in Austria who are second- generation immigrants with Turkish parents. Their experiences demon- strate that it is possible to succeed academically and thus achieve upward mobility despite challenging circumstances and having parents with a lower educational background. Based on interviews with them, he high- lights resources – particularly within an intergenerational context – that play an important role for academic success despite or precisely because of the impact of migration experiences. Yaĝdı thus contributes to a growing body of international research that shows that the educational attainment of children, adolescents and adults depends not only on their own intellec- tual ability but on generational influences. Edith Petschnigg examines the Jewish-Christian dialogue in Germany and Austria after 1945 and finds that interlocutors can represent different generations characterised as separate communities of shared experience. These common experiences have shaped and continue to shape this dia- logue and raise different questions, issues and topics. Johannes Thonhauser looks at cross-generational transfer of behavioural and thinking patterns on the occasion of the centenary of the Carinthian plebiscite on 10 October 1920. Drawing on cultural science and sociologi- cal methods, he exposes a narrative of threat and resistance that has been passed down generations and is still relevant for the establishment of iden- tity today. Alongside elements of conscious transfer, he also reveals a set of unconscious memories that constitute a formative element in Carinthia’s collective memory from past to present. Martina Schmidhuber puts the spotlight on intergenerational (co-)living in multi-generational houses. Older people can be prone to loneliness and associated health issues. Thus, living within a community becomes ever LIMINA 3:1 | Clash of generations? | Editorial