About Global Futures

Taking the future as a critical form of engagement, Global Futures seeks to reveal how the future is thought and acted upon across national contexts.

One of the powerful means through which futures are made to seem calculable and determinate is in the figurative and literal focus on youth and children as embodiments of the future. Thus this project explores how these forces pinpoint the young as both the figurative subject and literal object in "engineering" national and global futures and how these necessarily lead to the indeterminate results and imminent possibilities that the future must and does produce.