Books and Multimodal work by the Future Anthropologies Network
2022 An Anthropology of Technologies and Futures
Routledge, eds. Débora Lanzeni, Karen Waltorp, Sarah Pink and Rachel Charlotte Smith
The participation of anthropologists in contexts of the design, development, and use of new automated, connected
and intelligent emerging technologies is creating new opportunities as well as generating ethical challenges.
Technologies and Futures examines how technological futures are being constituted and the roles anthropologists
can play in their making; how anthropologists can engage with emerging technologies within their fieldwork
contexts and in research which seeks to influence future design; how to create critical and interventionist
approaches to technology design and innovation; and finally how a critical anthropology of emerging technologies
as experienced in everyday life offers new insights for future making practices.
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2022 Energy Futures
De Gruyter, eds. Simone Abram, Karen Waltorp, Nathalie Ortar, Sarah Pink.
Energy Futures is born of a collaboration between energy anthropologists and futures anthropologists. This
multi-authored anthology critically reviews dominant visions for and of energy futures with a grounding in
ethnography. Attentive to both the uncertainty and contingency of futures and the creative capacity of people to
improvise, we reveal how dominant energy futures are complicit with narratives of colonisation, capitalism,
technological solutionism and how they generally fail to understand, acknowledge or attend to people as
participants in energy futures. Insisting on a rigorously analytical anthropology of energy futures, the four
sections of the book, each drawing on four empirical cases, examine the foundations of a futures anthropology
and energy anthropology approach to outline how they open up alternative ways of conceptualising energy futures.
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2021 In Search of Lost Futures: Anthropological Explorations in Multimodality, Deep Interdisciplinarity,
and Autoethnography
Palgrave MacMillan, eds. Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston and Mark Auslander
The book explores anthropological futures and imagined anthropologies through autoethnographic, multimodal, and
interdisciplinary methods. It uncovers imaginative and future-oriented collaborative approaches of
ethnographers, creative artists, curators, and those working with new media and technology. It is a contribution
to the fields of (futures) anthropology, performance studies, studies of exhibition and design, museum studies,
and beyond.
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2018 Video talks and Blended learning resources
Produced by Karen Waltorp and Christian Vium with support from Aarhus University, Edu-IT. Copyright
2018.
Pink, S. Waltorp, K. and Lanzéni, D. (2018.) A conversation on data and digital visual methodologies.
Aarhus University/Emerging Technologies Lab.
- I. Digital & Visual Methodologies;
- II. The Field and Ethnographic Data;
- III. Photography & Video;
- IV. Social Media; V. Ethics;
- VI. Theory & Ethnography
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Pink, S. (2018). Video in Anthropological Research. Aarhus University/Emerging Technologies Lab.
- I. Video (walking with video);
- II. Video in homes;
- III. Other people's videos.
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Waltorp, K. (2018) The Flow of Images. Aarhus University/Emerging Technologies Lab.
- I. Photo-diaries and social media;
- II. Filmmaking in Fieldwork;
- III. Visual Sorting.
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2017 Anthropologies
and Futures: Researching emerging and uncertain worlds
Bloomsbury, 2017 eds. Juan Salazar, Sarah Pink, Andrew Irving and Johannes Sjöberg
Anthropology has a critical, practical role to play in contemporary debates about futures. This game-changing
new book presents new ways of conceptualising how to engage with a future-oriented research agenda,
demonstrating how anthropologists can approach futures both theoretically and practically, and introducing a set
of innovative research methods to tackle this field of research. Anthropology and Futures brings together a
group of leading scholars from across the world, including Sarah Pink, Rayna Rapp, Faye Ginsburg and Paul
Stoller. Firmly grounded in ethnographic fieldwork experience, the book’s fifteen chapters traverse
ethnographies with people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda, disability activists in the U.S., young Muslim women
in Copenhagen, refugees in Milan, future-makers in Barcelona, planning and land futures in the UK, the design of
workspaces in Melbourne, rewilding in the French Pyrenees, and speculative ethnographies among emerging
communities in Antarctica. Taking a strong interdisciplinary approach, the authors respond to growing interest
in the topic of futures in anthropology and beyond. This ground-breaking text is a call for more engaged,
interventional and applied anthropologies. It is essential reading for students and researchers in anthropology,
sociology, cultural studies, design and research methods.