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Multispecies Ethnography and Ethnofuturism: Can an ethnofuturist perspective be applied to the intersection of humans, animals and the environment to imagine sustainable futures for all? 
Convenor:
Olivia Howland (University of Liverpool, UK)
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Chair:
Olivia Howland (University of Liverpool, UK)
Format:
Panel
Sessions:
Wednesday 27 October, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

Can ethnofuturism, the joining of archaic sociocultural norms with ideas and manifestations of the future, lead to sustainable environmental solutions for multiple species? This panel explores the intersection of human, animal and the environment through an ethnofuturist lens of possibilities.

Long Abstract:

The concept of ethnofuturism emerged from Estonia in the late 1980s, from the thinkings of a group of young poets and artists. Ethnofuturism was born out of the Estonian liberation movement and grew to become a concept through which to understand and potentially manifest visions of the future.

Whilst scholars have in recent decades been more critical of the concept of ethnofuturism, in this panel we will address whether the basics of such a concept, namely that indigenous cultural and social norms and prohibitions/proscriptions from the past can be usefully brought together to mold and inform imaginations of sustainable futures for humans, animals and the environment in which they live. Can ethnofuturism be transposed onto different contexts to facilitate collective thinking and greater equity in our ideas of culturally relevant and sustainable environmental futures?

What role does the past have in shaping equitable and sustainable futures? Does ethnofuturism have a physicality of place which is immutable, or is it a geographically immaterial concept, able to be shifted and applied to a multiplicity of contexts? How do archaic cultural proscriptions, now considered to be inequitable or harmful, figure in these imaginings?

What can an ethnographic and/or anthropological perspective bring to discussions of sustainable futures for humans, animals and the environment, and how can looking backwards aid in moving forwards towards equitable future possibilities?

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Wednesday 27 October, 2021, -
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