An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies

Synopsis

This book examines emerging automated technologies and systems and the increasingly prominent roles that each plays in our lives and our imagined futures. It asks how technological futures are being constituted and the roles anthropologists can play in their making; how anthropologists engage with emerging technologies within their fieldwork contexts in research which seeks to influence future design; how to create critical and interventional approaches to technology design and innovation; and how a critical anthropology of the way that emerging technologies are experienced in everyday life circumstances offers new insights for future-making practices. In pursuing these questions, this book responds to a call for new anthropologies that respond to the current and emerging technological environments in which we live, environments for which thinking critically about the possible, plausible, and impossible futures are no longer sufficient. Taking the next step, this book asserts that anthropology must now propose alternative ways, rooted in ethnography, to approach and engage with what is coming and to contest dominant narratives of industry, policy, and government, and to respond to our contemporary context through a public, vocal, and interventional approach.

Copyright:

2023

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

180 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000182729

Related ISBNs:

9781003084471, 9781350144910, 9781350144927

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

12/30/22

Copyrighted By:

Débora Lanzeni, Karen Waltorp, Sarah Pink, and Rachel C. Smith

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Social Studies

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Débora Lanzeni

Edited by:

Karen Waltorp

Edited by:

Sarah Pink

Edited by:

Rachel C. Smith