That Time is Coming": speculative futures in depopulating rural Japan

那一刻即将到来”：人口减少的日本农村的投机未来

• 批准号: 2118589
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2118589
• 关键词: Time; Coming; speculative; futures; depopulating

This research aims to explore how speculations about the future in a community in rapidly depopulating rural Japan are impacting present thought and action, and how these speculations can be used to facilitate the co-creation of more inclusive, sustainable futures. With so many future projections based on statistical data, the intention is to pursue an alternative approach: the study will include collaboration with participants to produce a series of short films, each evoking the possible future according to one individual. These differing speculations will be screened publicly to an audience of local policy makers, journalists and community members in an effort to stimulate further dialogue about possible courses of action. To do this, it will draw on sensory ethnography, filmmaking, design anthropology and socially engaged art, thus examining social anthropology's capacity to intervene ethically and creatively in long-term, large-scale issues at a local level.

本研究旨在探讨在人口迅速减少的日本农村，对社区未来的猜测如何影响当前的思想和行动，以及如何利用这些猜测促进共同创造更具包容性、可持续的未来。有这么多基于统计数据的未来预测，目的是寻求另一种方法：这项研究将包括与参与者合作制作一系列短片，每一部短片都唤起一个人对未来可能的看法。这些不同的推测将向当地决策者、记者和社区成员公开筛选，以促进就可能采取的行动进行进一步对话。为此，它将借鉴感官人种学、电影制作、设计人类学和社会参与艺术，从而检验社会人类学在地方层面长期、大规模问题上进行伦理和创造性干预的能力。