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Lateral Ethnographies: Exploratory Knowledge Production, Speculative Fictions, and Alternative Future-Making 
Convenors:
Cristiana Strava (Leiden University)
Federico De Musso (Leiden University)
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Format:
Panel
Sessions:
Friday 10 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

This panel aims to showcase submissions addressing alternative ways of thinking about knowledge production, in anthropology and related disciplines, in relation to speculative, creative and lateral visions of the future and their intersection with various global crises.

Long Abstract:

We are currently living through a moment marked by the intensification of crises (ecological, epidemiological, political and financial), in which a certain sense of running 'out of time' (and ideas) has come to dominate and influence our perception of possible collective futures.

However, multiple forms of alternative accounts of the future emerge in the interstices of normative futures and established genres used to describe them. Novel personal and shared projects mix points of view and ways of storytelling to frame and produce prefigurative and speculative scenarios.

For this panel we aim to gather submissions addressing alternative ways of thinking about knowledge production, in anthropology and related disciplines, in relation to speculative, creative and lateral visions of the future and their intersection with various global crises. We invite potential participants to explore old and new accounts of future-making while taking into account how raced and gendered positionalities expose the margins of traditional academic discourse, and discuss the potential of community-based and radical forms of collaborative research.

What are some of the alternative, dissident forms of knowledge production and dissemination that allow different communities (activist, scholarly, etc.) to envision both possible and desirable futures unaligned with neo-liberal, teleological narratives of progress? How can anthropologists contribute to open-ended, generative scenarios for the future that place the emphasis on healing and collaborative play rather than crisis and competition?

Proposals at the intersection of literary and ethnographic research, speculative fiction, social-political activism, marginalised forms of knowledge production, and the politics of research are especially welcome.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Friday 10 June, 2022, -
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