Moles, K. orcid.org/0000-0002-1926-6525, Baker, W., Nono, F. et al. (5 more authors) (2023) Imagining futures/future imaginings: creative heritage work with young people in Uganda. Journal of the British Academy, 11 (S3). pp. 225-247. ISSN 2052-7217
Abstract
Drawing on research in Uganda, we describe our project in which we invited young people to think about their lives in ways that opened up creative and hopeful imaginaries of the future. We understand future imaginary work to be a significant part of memory work. An important component in the ways we think about the past is imagining the futures it ties to. We wanted the idea of the future to be something our young participants constructed together, in dialogue and iteratively, so that the project had a sense of collaboration and shared interests. To do so we developed the idea of a touring exhibition through which multiple voices, positions, understandings and values could be accommodated side by side. The article contributes to scholarly and public debates about reparations and memorialisation, particularly by showing the crucial role young people can play in articulating more just futures.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The authors 2023. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
Keywords: | youth futures; creative methods; imagined futures; Uganda |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Education (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 02 Feb 2024 11:31 |
Last Modified: | 02 Feb 2024 11:31 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/jba/011s3.225 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | British Academy |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.5871/jba/011s3.225 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:208625 |