New research programme explores political futures
The new research programme Political Futurity brings together researchers across disciplines to explore political imaginaries and ideas about the future from both historical and contemporary perspectives.
Describe the key research questions and issues that bring the programme’s research together.
The programme’s researchers are interested in exploring political imaginaries that extend beyond the immediate political horizon. Understanding political futures requires looking beyond the day-to-day horizon that tends to dominate the media landscape.
Witch perspectives, methods or approaches characterise the programme’s research?
The programme includes researchers who work empirically and conduct field-based research, as well as researchers who take a more theoretical approach.
How does the research contribute to society?
Understanding political futures requires looking beyond the day-to-day horizon that tends to dominate the media landscape. The programme’s researchers have in-depth knowledge of political imaginaries of the future from a broad historical and contemporary perspective and across different parts of the world, often drawing on language skills that enable more in-depth analyses of such imaginaries.