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Drawing together: Making Marginal Futures Visible through Collaborative Comic Creation (CCC)
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- Aalders, Johannes Theodor (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för globala studier,School of Global Studies
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Moraa, Anne (author)
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Oluoch-Olunya, Naddya Adhiambo (author)
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Muli, Daniel (author)
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- 2020-12-02
- 2020
- English.
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In: Geographica Helvetica. The Swiss Journal of Geography. - : Copernicus GmbH. - 0016-7312. ; 75, s. 415-430
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- The article introduces collaborative comic creation (CCC) as a methodological tool. The central question it addresses is how marginalised imaginations of futures can be made visible in the context of the planned Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (LAPSSET) in Kenya. The question assumes that infrastructure projects such as the LAPSSET corridor inscribe not only particular ways of moving into a landscape but also one specific temporality that marginalises other future-making practices. The paper participates in the ongoing debate about how imagined futures and future-making practices can be appreciated and analysed methodologically. It thus contributes to the literature on geographies of the future by drawing together conceptual insights from anthropology, infrastructure studies, and critical cartography. Based on these different approaches, the paper proposes to regard future-making practices not only in relation to contentious timelines but also in terms of lines made by moving and drawing on landscapes and surfaces. Using a review of existing social foresight methods as a basis, we describe the practical implementation of CCC. Subsequently, the analysis of one collaboratively produced comic illustrates how the method can help to visualise ambivalent and uncertain imaginations of different futures that oppose the unitary vision of modernity produced by dominant infrastructural visions of a single future. We conclude by reflecting on possible ways of developing the method further.
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- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Social och ekonomisk geografi -- Kulturgeografi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Social and Economic Geography -- Human Geography (hsv//eng)
- HUMANIORA -- Konst -- Bildkonst (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Arts -- Visual Arts (hsv//eng)
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- art (subject category)
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