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Paper long abstract:

If anthropology is to participate in constituting the very futures anthropologists often call for - futures of hope, care, inclusivity and sustainability for people, other species, organisms and planet - we need to dramatically shift the temporalities of the discipline, and to engage theory, concepts, methodology, knowing and engagement outside the anthropology and academia to that effect.  

I will not advocate for the Anthropology of the Future, but instead for a new Futures Anthropology, which is capable of occupying and shifting the futures spaces where academic economists, engineers, designers collude with the business consultancies, professional futurists and government collude in seeking to "shape" futures.  

I argue for a new movement where we are attentive to how a revised anthropology can contribute, and where we consider what we need to do to be listened to; not only in an interdisciplinary stage but in the discipline of anthropology.