The Anthropology of the Future

Bryant, Rebecca; Knight, Daniel M.

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“…Rather than universal and stable social and political realities, the temporality of a given temporal regime is induced from the contingent and contested production of time in everyday practices, a process often referred to as temporalization (Munn, 1992;Ringel, 2016). As forms of governance that are defined above all through shared but variable modes of temporalization, temporal regimes can coexist and interact in a field of analysis, introducing antagonistic, stabilizing or crosscutting temporal orientations that shape understandings of the past, perceptions of the present and visions of the future (Appadurai, 2013;Bryant & Knight, 2019). The defining qualities of citizenship are hence importantly shaped by the strategies mobilized to enact, enforce and negotiate the temporal regimes of a given field.…”

Section: Citizenship and Temporalitymentioning

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The temporal regimes of HIV/AIDS activism in Europe: chrono-citizenship, biomedicine and its others

Dziuban

Sekuler

2020

Critical Public Health

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HIV/AIDS is known to have fundamentally transformed fields of biomedical research, the governance of health, and state-citizen relations. Based on research that was developed to analyze these transformations within HIV/AIDS activism at the European-level, we offer the term chronocitizenship to describe the influence of time in constructs of citizenship. We argue that the temporal regime of biomedicine, or modes of governance that depend on biomedical understandings of time, have come to dominate HIV/AIDS narratives, policies and programs. Building on oral histories and three years of fieldwork in spaces of European-level networks and health-governing bodies, we suggest that citizenship in the field of HIV/AIDS has been defined through multiple, intersecting and, at times, antagonistic temporal regimes. To illustrate this, we expose the regime of loss, through which mourning, often denied space in the present, bears potential for new forms of subjectivity and community; the regime of sustainability, which centers the planning and surveillance of budgets over service provision in a climate unfriendly to human rights; and the regime of chronic crisis, in which persistence becomes a form of political agency against ongoing exclusion and disappointment. As we show, unearthing varied temporalities helps to denaturalize biomedical understandings of time, and invites a rethinking of the foundations needed to reach the 'end of AIDS' sought by civil society, UNAIDS and other health-governing bodies.

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Section: Citizenship and Temporalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The temporal regimes of HIV/AIDS activism in Europe: chrono-citizenship, biomedicine and its others

Dziuban

Sekuler

2020

Critical Public Health

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“…Bloch (1986) perceives of hope's relationship with utopias and Marcel (1951) perceives of hope as ‘memory of the future’ and only possible on ‘the level of us ’ (p. 10). These perceptions position hope as way of realising possible and potential futures through solidarity and community, and that hope is a phenomenon that affects bodies (Bennett, 2010) and is actant in our lives but often invisible and incorporeal until materialised (Bryant and Knight, 2019).…”

Section: Hope As a Living ‘Conatus’ Narrativementioning

confidence: 99%

“…To perceive of the earth as a human/non‐human/more‐than‐human with ‘vital’ intra‐activity not only re/negotiates and repositions the ‘human’ in how ‘worlds’ are made, but simultaneously proposes that all ‘matter’ has significance and participates with hope as Living Narratives . This returns the discussion to Spinozan ‘conatus’ (Bennett, 2010), Massumi's (Massumi and Zournazi, 2002) ‘co‐presence of potentials’, Pieper's ‘entelechy’ (Schumacher, 2003), as well as the proposition of ‘the incorporeal materiality, the unseen capacities of other people and objects’ (Bryant and Knight, 2019, p. 142). If all ‘matter’ is guided by a principle of potentiality through co‐presence and ‘other's’ capacities continuously striving for futural existence, could hope exist between the intra‐actions of materialising the unending ‘narratives’ of all Life ?…”

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confidence: 99%

Discerning Hope: Intra-Actions of a Philosophy for Children Workshop and the Eco-Socially Just Potential of Practising Hope

Birch¹

2020

Journal of Philosophy of Education

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This article is an extended discussion from the recent opening presentation for the Annual Winchester Advanced 'Philosophy for Children' Seminar in Climate Change Education, Hope and Philosophy for Children. The presentation and text originate from Rosamonde Birch's (2019) Masters' dissertation research discerning hope through an Education for Sustainable Development Philosophy for Children workshop. Rosamonde Birch is an experienced teacher/lecturer/facilitator with a demonstrated history of working across primary, secondary and higher education in Citizenship Education, Education for Sustainable Development and Outdoor Learning. Skilled in Teaching and Learning, Education Engagement, Social Enterprise, Public Engagement, Project Coordination, Public Speaking and Writing. Strong social justice, environmental activism and arts background with an MA in Education from University of Plymouth. See Birch's website at: https://www.rosamondebirch.space/

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“…The future, in other words, is great to think with, to use for mental escapades and veiled critique of present-day issues (Abram 2017). The not-yet-now is first exoticized and then de-exoticized (Bryant and Knight 2019). Altering the islands, without craving foretelling, young people prepare for complex questions and decisions to confront and handle tomorrow.…”

Section: Islands and Collective Futuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Altered Islands: Young Faroe Islanders’ Future Landscapes

Gaini

2019

Suomen Antropologi

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This paper explores scenarios created by young Faroe Islanders reflecting on the future of their local community and islands. The main objective is to outline and analyse the dynamic relationship between young people’s future images and present-day realities. Based on data from an ethnographic study from 2014, the paper discusses young people’s future-oriented essays in relation to their islands’ history, culture, and values. The essays, as methodological schemes, encourage the youth to draw a ‘future landscape’ without necessarily linking it directly to their personal (intimate) perspectives. They offer an opportunity to discuss the relation between micro- and macro-level events and between material and cultural shifts. In these narratives, we notice a strong commitment to connect the future to the past in a collective Faroese project. The future is often drawn as altered islands—a mesmerizing breakaway from present-day realities. The opportunity to dream and to imagine tomorrow is an important part of young people’s everyday life practices and identities.

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The Anthropology of the Future

Cited by 403 publications

References 208 publications

The temporal regimes of HIV/AIDS activism in Europe: chrono-citizenship, biomedicine and its others

The temporal regimes of HIV/AIDS activism in Europe: chrono-citizenship, biomedicine and its others

Discerning Hope: Intra-Actions of a Philosophy for Children Workshop and the Eco-Socially Just Potential of Practising Hope

Altered Islands: Young Faroe Islanders’ Future Landscapes

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