Interrogating Speculative Futures
The Politics of Imagining Futures With(out) Chronic Illness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21059871 |
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| Authors | N F Brenman (0000-0002-6567-2129, University of Oxford, corresponding author), Natassia Brenman (University of Oxford), Natashe Lemos Dekker (0000-0001-5523-4523, University of Amsterdam) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1-6 |
| Publication date | 2026-06-24 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01459740.2026.2688802 |
| PMID | 42340211 |
| OpenAlex | W7165738972 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
We introduce the empirical papers in this special issue, each of which presents a different mode of speculation in the context of living with, and caring for, chronic conditions: "educated guesswork" about covid reinfection, "ambivalent speculations" in learning to live "at risk" with Barrett's Esophagus and "retrospective speculation" in pressure ulcer prevention. We reflect on how they together contribute to current thinking on the politics of time in health and medicine, and wider conversations in medical anthropology and beyond, about chronic illness as both a lived everyday reality and part of an unfolding, unpredictable collective future
Context (archaeology) · Element (criminal law) · Everyday life · Futures contract · Medical anthropology · Politics · Sociology of health and illness · Speculation · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Obesity and Health Practices · Race, Genetics, and Society
Speculative Research
Ordinary Medicine
Racial Fictions, Biological Facts
Speculating surveillant futures past – a case study of the south side speculations project
The Anthropology of the Future
Care in Practice
Feminist, Queer, Crip
Anthropology of new chronicities
The emergence of multimorbidity as a matter of concern
The Sociology of the Future
Anticipation
Preemption, precaution, preparedness
Ready for What
Speculating About Futures with Covid Reinfection in the UK
Chronic Living in a Communicable World
Writing our Futures Possible
A Clinical Economy of Speculation
Anticipating an unwanted future
Neurodegeneration and the Intersubjectivities of Care
Experimental Subjectification
Diagnostic liquidity
| Highly cited | No |
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