Entangled Future Im/mobilities

How are im/mobilities articulated, imagined and practiced in relation to multiple futures? A critical examination of im/mobilities raises questions as to how power relations and crisis-driven futures enable, inhibit or prevent mobility, what meanings are culturally constructed around im/mobilities and how they are experienced. The contributors to this volume look at entangled future mobilities and immobilities using humanities and social science approaches in diverse examples: Afrofuturist poetry, de-extinction projects, dystopian novels, a Uruguayan planned relocation program, lives of rural Zambian women, climate adaptation in Morocco and Austrian financial literacy policy.

Auteur
Daniela Atanasova is a doctoral candidate in African Studies and a member of the Research Platform »Mobile Cultures and Societies« at the University of Vienna. Her research interests include mobilities and migration, women's history, gender relations and social inequality in Zambia and Africa more broadly.Romana Bund is a doctoral candidate in Cultural and German Studies and a member of the Research Platform »Mobile Cultures and Societies« at the University of Vienna. Her research explores the mobility and violent histories of human and non-human remains. In 2023, she was a visiting doctoral scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.Dovaine Buschmann is a scientific project assistant at the Research Platform »Mobile Cultures and Societies« as well as a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Vienna. Her research interests include mobility studies, financial literacy education policies, feminist political economy and feminist policy analysis.Rachael Diniega is a climate change, mobilities, and human rights researcher. While a Project Assistant at the Research Platform »Mobile Cultures and Societies,« she has worked towards a Geography PhD at the University of Vienna. She has conducted research and worked in sustainable development across North Africa and Central Asia.Jana Donat is a doctoral candidate in international development with a focus on displacement and relocation at the intersection of development and disaster studies. As a member of the research platform »Mobile Cultures and Societies« at the University of Vienna, she fostered her approach on regimes of im/mobilities within relocation processes while conducting field research in Uruguay.Barbara Gfoellner is a doctoral candidate in American Studies and a member of the Research Platform »Mobile Cultures and Societies« at the University of Vienna. Her research includes Caribbean and Black studies, poetics, mobility studies, and archipelagic studies. She has held appointments as a visiting scholar at York University and the University of the West Indies, Mona.Nicola Kopf is a doctoral candidate in German Literary Studies and a project assistant at the Research Platform »Mobile Cultures and Societies« at the University of Vienna. In her dissertation, she focuses on the "poetics of moving stillness" in the works of Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer. Her research interests include discourses on temporality and space, mobility studies, and ecocritical debates.