Anthropologies and Futures: Researching Emerging and Uncertain Worlds

by Juan Francisco Salazar (Editor)

Anthropology has a critical, practical role to play in contemporary debates about futures. This game-changing new book presents new ways of conceptualising how to engage with a future-oriented research agenda, demonstrating how anthropologists can approach futures both theoretically and practically, and introducing a set of innovative research methods to tackle this field of research.

Anthropology and Futures brings together a group of leading scholars from across the world, including Sarah Pink, Rayna Rapp, Faye Ginsburg and Paul Stoller. Firmly grounded in ethnographic fieldwork experience, the book's fifteen chapters traverse ethnographies with people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda, disability activists in the U.S., young Muslim women in Copenhagen, refugees in Milan, future-makers in Barcelona, planning and land futures in the UK, the design of workspaces in Melbourne, rewilding in the French Pyrenees, and speculative ethnographies among emerging communities in Antarctica.

Taking a strong interdisciplinary approach, the authors respond to growing interest in the topic of futures in anthropology and beyond. This ground-breaking text is a call for more engaged, interventional and applied anthropologies. It is essential reading for students and researchers in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, design and research methods.

Genres: Anthropology

275 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 4, 2017

Reviews

[Hugo Barine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Siento que todo lo que he leído de Sarah Pink tiene el problema de la escritura académica: trata siempre temas muy interesantes desde perspectivas super novedosas pero están escritos de una forma que en un paper de 15 páginas pasan piola pero que en un libro de 200 o más páginas se vuelve tedioso.