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Author : Rebecca Bryant
Release : 2019-03-28
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 857/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Anthropology of the Future by : Rebecca Bryant
Download or read book The Anthropology of the Future written by Rebecca Bryant. This book was released on 2019-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anticipation -- Expectation -- Speculation -- Potentiality -- Hope -- Destiny.
Author : Rebecca Bryant (Professor of anthropology)
Release : 2019
Genre : Expectation (Philosophy)
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 277/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Anthropology of the Future by : Rebecca Bryant (Professor of anthropology)
Download or read book The Anthropology of the Future written by Rebecca Bryant (Professor of anthropology). This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the future is an important new field in anthropology. Building on a philosophical tradition running from Aristotle through Heidegger to Schatzki, this book presents the concept of 'orientations' as a way to study everyday life. It analyses six main orientations - anticipation, expectation, speculation, potentiality, hope, and destiny - which represent different ways in which the future may affect our present. While orientations entail planning towards and imagining the future, they also often involve the collapse or exhaustion of those efforts: moments where hope may turn to apathy, frustrated planning to disillusion, and imagination to fatigue. By examining these orientations at different points, the authors argue for an anthropology that takes fuller account of the teleologies of action.
Author : Rebecca Bryant
Release : 2019-03-28
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 342/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Anthropology of the Future by : Rebecca Bryant
Download or read book The Anthropology of the Future written by Rebecca Bryant. This book was released on 2019-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the future is an important new field in anthropology. Building on a philosophical tradition running from Aristotle through Heidegger to Schatzki, this book presents the concept of 'orientations' as a way to study everyday life. It analyses six main orientations - anticipation, expectation, speculation, potentiality, hope, and destiny - which represent different ways in which the future may affect our present. While orientations entail planning towards and imagining the future, they also often involve the collapse or exhaustion of those efforts: moments where hope may turn to apathy, frustrated planning to disillusion, and imagination to fatigue. By examining these orientations at different points, the authors argue for an anthropology that takes fuller account of the teleologies of action.
Author : Juan Francisco Salazar
Release : 2017-05-04
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 891/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Anthropologies and Futures by : Juan Francisco Salazar
Download or read book Anthropologies and Futures written by Juan Francisco Salazar. This book was released on 2017-05-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Felix Ringel
Release : 2018-03-26
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 998/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Back to the Postindustrial Future by : Felix Ringel
Download or read book Back to the Postindustrial Future written by Felix Ringel. This book was released on 2018-03-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does an urban community come to terms with the loss of its future? The former socialist model city of Hoyerswerda is an extreme case of a declining postindustrial city. Built to serve the GDR coal industry, it lost over half its population to outmigration after German reunification and the coal industry crisis, leading to the large-scale deconstruction of its cityscape. This book tells the story of its inhabitants, now forced to reconsider their futures. Building on recent theoretical work, it advances a new anthropological approach to time, allowing us to investigate the postindustrial era and the futures it has supposedly lost.
