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Revisiting the future II 
Convenors:
Tine Damsholt (University of Copenhagen)
Marie Sandberg (University of Copenhagen)
Fredrik Nilsson (Åbo Akademi University)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
TEMPORALITIES
:
Room K-205
Sessions:
Wednesday 15 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

The future is emerging as an ethnographic site. We invite papers revisiting the future: revisiting ideas about the future’s role in contemporary societies, public discourses, individual narratives, and how future is anticipated, experienced, articulated, materialized, and practised in everyday life.

Long Abstract:

The future has often been perceived as something remote, imagined, and unknowable, which we cannot investigate ethnographically. Now, conversations about the future as an ethnographic site are emerging: The collapse of future in sites of conflict, or the chronic temporariness and uncertainty of the future among refugees. The global climate and environmental crises we are verging on calls for a more urgent understanding of the future. The Covid-19 pandemic prompted instant dystopias of food shortage and is still destabilizing future anticipations, as family rituals and the everyday at home surfaced as sites for political interventions. Like other rhythms, durations, and temporalities, the future is also shaped by and materialized in objects of consumption, digital devices, or materials such as plastic. In everyday life near future and immediate present may compete with distant futures reaching beyond one’s own lifetime. Yet, experimental spaces and radical activism also perform micro-utopias of hope and transition. In short, we need to pay attention to the ways future arises and resides in the quotidian actions and interactions (cf. Bryant & Knight 2019).

Thus, we invite for a revisiting of the future – to investigate and discuss ethnographic approaches to and ideas about the future’s role in contemporary societies, public discourses, individual narratives, and how future is anticipated, experienced, articulated, materialized, and practised in everyday life. The panel welcomes papers revisiting the future in the history of our disciplines, in public life, political discourses and narratives, individual life stories, in times of crisis, and in mundane micro-practices.

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Session 1 Wednesday 15 June, 2022, -
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