Antropologie przyszłości
Anthropologies of the Future

Anticipating Energy Transition

Summary/Abstract: The article considers how the categories of time and, especially, the future can beemployed in anthropological reflection; both as study object and direction and asa horizon for current affects, emotions, experiences, and social moods, which arehappening “here and now” and are associated with people’s functioning in landscapesof energy resources extraction. The mining industry development transforms localcountryside, changing the realities of living on coal reserves. To properly recognize suchchanges, we must activate spatial and temporal perspectives, while any explanationattempts encourage us to shift scales and values. Faced with an unknown future oftransitions, local communities create narratives about the past and the maturing presentby developing specific affective social poetics. Thus, energy transition studies provide anethnographic contribution to the developing anthropology of the future, thus co-creatingan imagination of the post-coal future.

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