In order to contextualise the Animal Futurity special issue, this introduction will examine some of ways in which humans have historically (and continuing present day) been enmeshed with lives non-human animals (NHAs), setting stage for why alternative imaginaries human-NHA relations are urgently necessary. This contextualisation highlights tension between human reliance on relationships with) ...

Drawing on recent work in psychology, philosophy, and youth geographies, this article responds to calls for theoretical rigour in children’s geographies by developing the concept of becoming for youth transitions research. Becoming has been used by psychologist Gordon Allport (1955) in his work on the proces-sual nature of personal identity, while Elizabeth Grosz (1999) has used the concept of ...

This article investigates the changing relations between gender and labour in contemporary capitalism. It challenges what has become a default although mostly implicit position for understanding this relationship, namely what I shall term, following the work of Carole Pateman (1988), a sexual contract position. This position will be shown to cast labour with a particular temporal structure, nam...

How do the lost futures of forced displacement converge with impasse being resettled to a “post-future” society such as U.S.? Based on interviews conducted between 2016 and 2019 resettlement agents, service providers Iraqis in U.S., we argue that condemnation “expectations” (that is, realistic hope) coupled demand for refugees’ gratitude means U.S. are asked sustain “hope against hope” fullness...

The article analyses depictions of disability embodiment in a range contemporary North American speculative fiction that depicts post-crisis worlds social and environmental breakdown. It argues each novel bodies are threatened placed under pressure, particularly terms capacity function. While some resolve this through recourse to humanist narratives restitution, others imagine futures which bot...

This article is designed to stimulate debate over the possibilities for thinking feminist futures. It argues moving away from a linear understanding of feminism which assumes that past produces present and future as response its previous waves. Instead, we argue embracing multiplicity simultaneity contemporary feminisms, taking inspiration Elizabeth Grosz’s writings on futurity Cindi Katz’s wor...