In Search of Lost Futures: Anthropological Explorations in Multimodality, Deep Interdisciplinarity, and Autoethnography

In Search of Lost Futures explores how autoethnography, multimodality, and deep interdisciplinarity can activate imaginations and break down methodological silos in ethnographic research. It pushes the boundaries of engagement by studying absence and grief through street performance, museum exhibits, anticipation, and simulated reality.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 333 pages
Publication date: 17 February 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

In pursuit of lost futures, this text explores the potential of autoethnography, multimodality, and deep interdisciplinarity to ignite imaginations and challenge prevailing notions of ethnographic process, representation, reflexivity, audience, and intervention. By blurring the boundaries between past, present, and future; absence and presence; possibility and impossibility; and fantasy and reality, In Search of Lost Futures pushes the boundaries of ethnographic engagement. It unveils how cutting-edge researchers are delving into the study of absence and grief, employing street performance, museum exhibits, anticipation, or simulated reality to research and intervene in the potential, the impossible, and the uncertain realms. Through these innovative approaches, they seek to unravel the complexities of human experiences and forge new paths for understanding and intervention in the world.

Weight: 476g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030630058
Edition number: 1st ed. 2021