ERC Starting Grant · 2019
CoFutures: Pathways to Possible Presents
This project investigates future fictions from five distinct traditions: Afrofuturism, Sinofuturism, Arab/Gulf-futurism, Latin@futurism, and Indofuturism. All these fictions respond to the burning issues of the present, the transnational discourses of demographic change, climate change, and technological change, but they imagine different, localized ways of engaging with these transnational discourses. Research Questions What contributions can contemporary future fictions make to our understanding of global issues? The project is split into three sub-questions to structure the enquiry: 1. What are the cultural and scientific bases for the development of different geography based future…
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