Periodic Reporting for period 4 - COFUTURES (CoFutures: Pathways to Possible Presents)
Reporting period: 2024-07-01 to 2024-12-31
CoFutures is a project aimed at developing a theory for the study of futurisms from 2001- present. These futurisms, including Afrofuturisms, Africanfuturisms, Arabfuturisms, Gulf-futurisms, Sinofuturisms, Indofuturisms, Desifuturisms, Latin American, and Latinxfuturisms, occur in different media, occur in multiple languages, and are distributed globally. This creates unique theoretical and methodological challenges as there is no singular way to understand the plurality of these futurisms. The main objectives of the project are to understand and map these futurisms, and especially explore how they relate to contemporary societal challenges of climate change, demographic change, and technological change.
The CoFutures team has so far published numeroujournal and book articles in leading venues (such as Science Fiction Studies, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Foundation, Springer, Routledge), edited two journal special issues (Utopian Studies, Vector), produced several books with leading publishers (such as MIT Press, Routledge, Tordotcom), and has many books in the pipeline under contract (Chicago UP, Routledge). The team has conducted fieldwork in a dozen countries and interviewed over 200 creators of contemporary futurisms. We have organized two major conference, "Futures from the Margins" and "Community Speculations and Technopolitics" (https://conference.cofutures.org(opens in new window)) organized many open and closed webinars, and held several workshops. The project also received the ERC-Proof of Concept grant.
A new theory of CoFuturisms, established in a multi-format network of outputs: books, handbooks, articles, translations, fiction, interviews, media, lecture library, etc.
Expected Results
Publications: 19 articles, one handbook, one methods book, two translation books, one monograph, two PhD theses.
Media: repository of interviews, lectures
Software: Ideaweb
Expected Results
Publications: 19 articles, one handbook, one methods book, two translation books, one monograph, two PhD theses.
Media: repository of interviews, lectures
Software: Ideaweb