Future ordinaries: assembling place-based knowledges and literacies in real and imagined harmscapes

Wilson, A. , Robertson, G. and Dickie, J. (2024) Future ordinaries: assembling place-based knowledges and literacies in real and imagined harmscapes. Futures, 159, 103376. (doi: 10.1016/j.futures.2024.103376)

Abstract

This paper explores the role of the everyday in real and imagined responses to climate-changed landscapes emerging from South African and UK-based activities in a project exploring local knowledges and resilience. We analyse photographs and captions created by co-researcher residents in three climate-stressed settlements in South Africa. We then use participant-generated stories created in the UK to explore imagined future landscapes. We demonstrate important commonalities between the real and the imagined, and between Global South and Global North, including three key dynamics to involved in responses to harmscapes of the present that also animate imagined futures: intra-community relations, the development of place and landscape literacies and adaptations. Our process reveals the centrality of the ordinary to both present realities and future imaginaries.

• Item Type: Articles
• Additional Information: This work was supported by the UKRI through the Global Challenges Research Fund, project award reference: ES/T003561/1.
• Keywords: Place-based learning, landscape literacies, climate change, speculative fiction, everyday, ordinaries.
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Wilson, Dr Anna and Robertson, Mr George

Creator Roles

Wilson, A.: Writing – review and editing, Writing – original draft, Methodology, Investigation, Funding acquisition, Formal analysis, Data curation, Conceptualization
Robertson, G.: Project administration, Investigation, Data curation, Conceptualization

• Authors: Wilson, A., Robertson, G., and Dickie, J.
• Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General); H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General); L Education > L Education (General)
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Education
• Journal Name: Futures
• Publisher: Elsevier
• ISSN: 0016-3287
• ISSN (Online): 1873-6378
• Published Online: 29 March 2024
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2024 The Authors
• First Published: First published in Futures 159: 103376
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License