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    Geographies of the future: Prefigurative politics

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    Jeffrey, C; Dyson, J
    Date
    2020-05-27
    Source Title
    Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities
    Publisher
    SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Dyson, Jane; Jeffrey, Craig
    Affiliation
    School of Geography
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    Journal Article
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    Jeffrey, C. & Dyson, J. (2020). Geographies of the future: Prefigurative politics. PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132520926569.
    Access Status
    Open Access
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/252070
    DOI
    10.1177/0309132520926569
    ARC Grant code
    ARC/DP170104376
    Abstract
    <jats:p> This paper uses an examination of prefigurative politics – popularly imagined as ‘being the change you wish to see’ – to reflect on geographies of the future. We argue that prefigurative politics, which has become common since the mid-1990s, typically proceeds through multiple forms of improvisation. Successful prefigurative politics is usually institutionalised within organisations and movements and reshapes practices, discourses, and structures of power. We demonstrate how a focus on prefigurative politics can inform scholarship on the ‘anticipatory politics’ associated with dominant institutions and geographies of the future more broadly by highlighting ways in which people seek to enact visions of the future and illustrating the impact of these oppositional practices of future making. We argue that prefigurative politics could be a springboard for investigating means-ends alignment as a characteristic of political action and the present as a terrain of politics. </jats:p>

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