Purpose of the project
The project studies the recent proliferation of fiction based on ethnic, cultural, or national identity as take-off points for imagining possible futures even if their locations of production are globally spread. Such new futurisms include Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism, Latinxfuturism, Arab- and Gulf-futurism, Desifuturism, Chinese Futurisms and Sinofuturism, Indigenous Futurism, etc.
While many of these have older histories, these fictions have come together this decade as alternative visions of the future that are resistant to perceived colonial or neo-colonial hegemony and are read as new forms of self-assertion.
No methodologies have been developed to study all of these together as shared phenomena, and no theories exist that can even make sense of them as similar yet distinct phenomena. This is what CoFutures seeks to do.
The CoFUTURES Research Group, with its members and activities scattered across different universities and communities around the world has its own facebook and twitter accounts: CoFutures (fb: @cofutures; twitter: @co_futures) and Theory from the Margins (fb: @theoryfromthemargins; twitter: @theoryfrom). Follow social media for updates on activities from the whole group.
Financing
This project is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement no. 852190 (ERC Starting Grant 2019).