Anthropologies and Futures: Researching Emerging and Uncertain Worlds

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Anthropology has a critical, practical role to play in contemporary debates about futures. This game-changing new book presents new ways of conceptualising how to engage with a future-oriented research agenda, demonstrating how anthropologists can approach futures both theoretically and practically, and introducing a set of innovative research methods to tackle this field of research. Anthropology and Futures brings together a group of leading scholars from across the world, including Sarah Pink, Rayna Rapp, Faye Ginsburg and Paul Stoller. Firmly grounded in ethnographic fieldwork experience, the book's fifteen chapters traverse ethnographies with people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda, disability activists in the U.S., young Muslim women in Copenhagen, refugees in Milan, future-makers in Barcelona, planning and land futures in the UK, the design of workspaces in Melbourne, rewilding in the French Pyrenees, and speculative ethnographies among emerging communities in Antarctica. Taking a strong interdisciplinary approach, the authors respond to growing interest in the topic of futures in anthropology and beyond. This ground-breaking text is a call for more engaged, interventional and applied anthropologies. It is essential reading for students and researchers in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, design and research methods. FC......Page 1 Half title......Page 2 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 List of Figures......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 10 Notes on Contributors......Page 11 1 Futures anthropologies manifesto EASA future anthropologies network......Page 18 2 Anthropology and futures: Setting the agenda Sarah Pink and Juan Francisco Salazar......Page 20 3 The art of turning left and right Andrew Irving......Page 40 4 Cripping the future: Making disability count Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp......Page 60 5 Contemporary obsessions with time and the promise of the future Simone Abram......Page 78 6 Pyrenean rewilding and ontological landscapes: A future(s) dwelt-in ethnographic approach Tony Knight......Page 100 7 Digital technologies, dreams and disconcertment in anthropological worldmaking Karen Waltorp......Page 118 8 Future in the ethnographic world Débora Lanzeni and Elisenda Ardèvol......Page 134 9 Researching future as an alterity of the present Sarah Pink, Yoko Akama and Annie Fergusson......Page 150 10 Speculative fabulation: Researching worlds to come in Antarctica Juan Francisco Salazar......Page 168 11 Ethno science fiction: Projective improvisations of future scenarios and environmental threat in the everyday life of British youth Johannes Sjöberg......Page 188 12 Reaching for the horizon: Exploring existential possibilities of migration and movement within the past-present-future through participatory animation Alexandra D’Onofrio......Page 206 13 Agency and dramatic storytelling: Roving through pasts, presents and futures Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston......Page 226 14 Remix as a literacy for future anthropology practice Annette N. Markham......Page 242 Afterword: Flying toward the future on the wings of wind Paul Stoller......Page 260 Index......Page 266