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P44a


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Futurology: anthropological containment and delivery 
Convenor:
Jonathan Skinner (University of Surrey)
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Discussant:
Ian Yeoman (Victoria University of Wellington)
Format:
Panel
Sessions:
Friday 10 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

Whether planning, modelling, forecasting or predicting, the future is always under consideration. This panel looks to the structuring and disciplining of this practice by anthropology and futurology.

Long Abstract:

Whether planning, modelling, forecasting or predicting, the future is always under consideration. This panel looks to the structuring and disciplining of this practice by anthropology and futurology. More than imagine, meditate or fantasise upon the future, we are interested in active attempts to rein in the future – to controlling in various guises what happens next whether in the field of tourism and business, medicine and crisis management, religious studies and divination. Futurology, like anthropology, is an interdisciplinary pursuit. It looks for patterns and trends and reveals alternate pathways. If anthropology examines an alterity of space, then perhaps futurology explores the alterity of time. Just what are the applied intersections between these two disciplines? What examples in anthropology contain and attempt to deliver these futures? This panel welcomes all manner of submissions engaging with these issues and topics from the theoretical and disciplinary; to the ethnographic quests to represent, understand and marshal the future in our complex technological and fraught environmental social worlds.

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Session 1 Friday 10 June, 2022, -
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