Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of Futures: Concepts for Researching Something that does not (yet) Exist
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anthropology of futures, multitemporality, future orientations, urban futuresAbstract
The paper deals with the future as an object of cultural anthropological research and an analytical concept through a presentation of existing studies – from those in the domains of »cultural futuristics« and anticipatory anthropology to those that more visibly shape the anthropology of futures. We compare conceptual approaches (future as a cultural fact, multitemporality, temporal action, metaphysical presentism, multiple futures) and outline the research framework we develop in our project on urban futures.
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