We are a collective of geographers who organized a set of sessions on the topic of “desirable futures” at the 2021 American Association of Geographers conference and were energized by the enthusiasm, creativity, and expansiveness of the response that we received from scholars across disciplines.
We ask: How do we live and struggle in the present when it feels like we are living at the end of the world? How is time layered, folded, navigated, and curated by those enacting and embodying possibilities for the future in the here and now? Who is the future for? How do queer and anticolonial temporal imaginaries renegotiate the divisions of nature and culture, of the human and its others, of sentience and animacy? How does the past haunt our futures? Who can be time travelers? If our pasts, presents, and futures are intimately entangled across geographies, generations, and territories, what do we owe each other? What imaginaries of the future does desire animate?
We have since convened over 50 scholars across disciplines, career stages, and institutions for three special issues, an edited volume, and writing groups and workshops.
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