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The last few years of pandemic living have highlighted various temporal tensions that characterise our individual and collective futures. In some ways, the scale of temporal disruption caused by the pandemic could be considered unprecedented. But in other ways, the temporal tensions that underpin social life are long-standing, even routine. In this special issue, 'Future/Tense: A Sociology of Temporal Dis/Order', we take the intensification of temporal tensions in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, and well beyond it, as impetus to interrogate how the future is variously known, felt and valued by individuals, institutions and societies. The assembled articles cover a wide range of empirical foci – from life-limiting diagnoses and housing instability to climate anxiety and space colonisation. They are united, however, by their critical attention to the (frequently overlooked) temporal tensions that lie at the heart of many of the key social challenges we confront in the contemporary historical moment.

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