Anthropologies and Futures: Researching Emerging and Uncertain Worlds
Juan F E Salazar
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Description for Anthropologies and Futures: Researching Emerging and Uncertain Worlds
Paperback. Editor(s): Salazar, Juan Francisco; Pink, Sarah; Irving, Andrew; Sjoberg, Johannes. Num Pages: 280 pages, 41 bw illus. BIC Classification: GPS; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474264877
SKU
V9781474264877
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About Juan F E Salazar
Juan Francisco Salazar is Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies at Western Sydney University, Australia Sarah Pink is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT University, Australia Andrew Irving is Director of the Granada Centre of Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK Johannes ... Read more
Reviews for Anthropologies and Futures: Researching Emerging and Uncertain Worlds
This collection is the clearest articulation yet of a future-oriented practice for anthropology. It attempts nothing less than a re-centering of anthropology along future temporalities, opening up the field to new dimensions of public engagement by sketching the contours of a fieldwork-based practice centered on emergence, possibility and, ultimately, on the hope for better lives for people in the communities ... Read more