Imagining Futures/Future Imaginings: Creative heritage work with young people in Uganda

Moles, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1926-6525, Baker, WIll, Nono, Francis, Komakech, Daniel, Owor, Arthur, Anek, Florence, Pennell, Catriona and Rowsell, Jennifer 2023. Imagining Futures/Future Imaginings: Creative heritage work with young people in Uganda. Journal of the British Academy 11 (s3) , pp. 225-247. 10.5871/jba/011s3.225

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Abstract

Drawing on research in Uganda, we describe our project in which we invited young people to think about their lives in ways that opened up creative and hopeful imaginaries of the future. We understand future imaginary work to be a significant part of memory work, situated, contextual, interactional and relational. We wanted the idea of the future to be something our young participants constructed together, in dialogue and iteratively, so that the project had a sense of collaboration and shared interests, to bring the young people together in a shared set of discussions around the future after years of division, and so developed the idea of a touring exhibition through which multiple voices, positions, understandings and values could be accommodated side by side.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Publisher:	British Academy
ISSN:	2052-7217
Funders:	British Academy
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	7 November 2023
Date of Acceptance:	August 2023
Last Modified:	07 Nov 2023 15:14
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/161407

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