The World We (Re)Build: An Ethnography of the Future

Anna J. Willow

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Summary This essay directs the theoretical energy of the emerging anthropology of the future genre toward the essential task of generating new anthropological prospects for making positive world contributions. Embracing visioning as a promising ethnographic technique, I develop an ethnography of the future drawn from central Ohio Transition participants’ prefigurative actions and descriptions of desirable futures. I suggest that temporal imaginings have very real effects on the world we ultimately (re)build and outline anthropology’s roles in the future‐making process.

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