Entangled Future Im/mobilities : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mobility Studies.
How are im/mobilities articulated, imagined and practiced in relation to multiple futures? A critical examination of im/mobilities raises questions as to how power relations and crisis-driven futures enable, inhibit or prevent mobility, what meanings are culturally constructed around im/mobilities a...
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| Language: | English |
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Bielefeld :
transcript Verlag,
2024.
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| Series: | Vernetzen - Bewegen - Verorten. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven Series.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. Mobility Studies and Conceptions of the Future
- II. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Futures: Entanglements of Materiality and Meaning
- Moving Forward?
- Coming to a Halt
- Circulating
- Acknowledgments
- Funding
- References
- Moving Forward?
- Astropelagic Afrofuturism
- I. Introduction
- II. Moving towards an Afrofuturist Astropelago: Theoretical Considerations
- III. Astropelagic Poetics of Mobility in "Voodoo Hypothesis"
- IV. Conclusion
- References
- Resurrecting the Past to Save the Future?
- I. Extinction between Ecocide and Genocide
- II. Mobilizing the Thylacine through Cloning and Digital Archives
- III. Breeding Back the Past for the Future
- IV. Genome Editing and the Quest for Future Immortality
- V. Conclusion: Mobile Afterlives, Biopolitics and Necropolitics
- References
- Coming to a Halt
- When the World Comes to a Halt
- I. Disappearing Futures
- II. Acceleration / Polar Inertia
- III. A New Turn to Stillness?
- IV. Imagining Im/mobilized Futures
- E.M. Forster: The Machine Stops (1909)
- Marlen Haushofer: The Wall (1963)
- Thomas Lehr: 42 (2005)
- V. Conclusion
- References
- "You Have to Know How to Wait"
- I. Introduction
- II. Waiting: Im/mobilities, Temporalities and Aspirations
- III. The Uruguayan National Relocation Plan (NRP)
- Setting the Scene: La Chacarita de los Padres
- IV. Methodology and Methods
- V. Living and Waiting in La Chacarita before Relocation
- Waiting to (Be) Relocate(d)
- PCVU
- or When the Most Privileged Might Wait the Longest
- The Immobilizing Effect of Announcing Mobility (for Some)
- VI. Post-Relocation: Formally Waiting for Life to Begin
- Waiting to be Settled Down or "Cada Casa es un Mundo"
- From Partial to Full Relocation? Waiting to be Continued
- VII. Conclusion
- References
- Staying in the Village
- I. Literature, Concepts and Methods
- II. Research Context and the Research Participants
- III. Understanding Decisions and Aspirations to Stay
- Imaginaries of Town and Village
- IV. The Village as a Future Space (?)
- Future Orientations and Self-Realisation
- V. Conclusion
- References
- Circulating
- In the Future Now
- I. Introduction
- II. Entangling Concepts to Study Mobilities-in-Adaptation
- III. Making Way for a Planned Future: The M'Daz Dam
- IV. Cobbling Together a Future: Farmers' Drip Irrigation Systems
- V. Present Futures: Entangled Mobilities and Temporalities for Climate Adaptation
- References
- Circulating Visions of the Future
- Abbreviations
- I. Introduction
- II. Theoretical Considerations on Futuring, Policy Mobility, and Policy Frame Analysis
- III. Material and Methods
- IV. Im/mobile Visions of the Future in the Process of Policy Frame Circulation
- IV.I Framing Visions of the Policy Future: Governing, Optimising, Targeting
- Policy Frame Im/mobilities and Circulations
