Chapter 1: Introduction: In Search of Lost Futures
Part 1: Multimodality
Chapter 2: Possibilities and Impossibilities in Acción
Chapter 3: Put Your Body into It: Exploring Imagination through Enskillment in Outdoor Women's Camps
Chapter 4: Staging Care: Dying, Death, and Possible Futures Chapter 5: Impossible Ethnography: Tracking Colonial Encounters, Listening to Raised Voices, and Hearing Indigenous Sovereignty in the "New World"
Part 2: Deep Interdisciplinarity
Chapter 6: Future Making in Times of Urban Sustainability: Maintenance and Endurance as Progressive Alternatives in the Post-Industrial Era
Chapter 7: Knowing and Imagining with Sustainable Makers
Chapter 8: Anticipating Crisis as Affective Future Making in Iceland
Chapter 9: Simulating and Trusting in Automated Futures: Anthropology and the Wizard of Oz
Part 3: Autoethnography
Chapter 10: Intimating the Possible Collapse of the Future: Digging into Cuban Palimpsests through Innovative Methodologies
Chapter 11: Absence, Magic, and Impossible Futures
Chapter 12: Projections and Possibilities: An Installation about HuMilk Now
Chapter 13: Exhibition Development as Restorative Future Making: Community Co-curation in the Struggle against Sexual Violence
About the Author: Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston is Associate Professor of Theatre with graduate appointments in Theatre and Performance Studies and Social Anthropology at York University, Canada. Her book, Staging Strife (2010), was awarded the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Outstanding Qualitative Book Award and the Canadian Association for Theatre Research Ann Saddlemyer Book Prize (2011). Her article, "quiet theatre: The Radical Politics of Silence," was awarded the Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR) 2019 Richard Plant Prize for the best English-language article on a Canadian theatre or performance topic. She is a co-founding member of the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography (CIE), which received the American Anthropological Association General Anthropology Division's 2019 New Directions Award in Public Anthropology.
Mark Auslander, a sociocultural and historical anthropologist, works at the intersection of ritual practice, aesthetics, environmental transformation, kinship, and political consciousness in Africa and the African Diaspora. His curatorial work engages with art, race, environmental crisis, gender, and memory politics. He has directed museums of science and culture at Central Washington University and Michigan State University, and currently serves as director of special projects at the Natural History Museum.