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Future Perfect - Alexandra D'Onofrio

Future Perfect

An Imaginative Ethnography of Mediterranean Illegalised Migration
Buch | Hardcover
248 Seiten
2026
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
9781526151841 (ISBN)
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Future Perfect is a co-creative ethnography combining theatre improvisations, storytelling, collaborative filmmaking and participatory animation in the study of illegalised migration in the Mediterranean. It recognises the centrality of imagination and creativity in the making of lives and stories at the crossing of dehumanising border regimes. -- .
The present volume emerges from a practice-based research that focuses on experiences of migration and border crossing during what are perceived as existential ‘turning points’ by the protagonists themselves. It recognizes the fundamental role that imagination plays in people’s perceptions of reality, in their decisions and actions, and finally in the way they narrate their experiences. As a consequence, it makes a stance for ethnographic practice to include more creative and collaborative methodologies in order to explore such intangible and unstructured realms of existence. In particular, this ethnography developed theoretically and methodologically in close collaboration with a group of Egyptian men who crossed the Mediterranean Sea in search of better living opportunities in Italy, by engaging them through a range of the co-creative processes such as theatre improvisations, storytelling practices, collaborative filmmaking and participatory animation. -- .

Alexandra D’Onofrio is a member of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology and a Lecturer in Social and Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester -- .

Part I: Introduction
1 Possible lives
2 Researching migration and imagination in critical times: The Egyptian uprising seen from the opposite shore of the Mediterranean

Part II: Ali and the double life
3 On presences and absences
4 Roots and routes
5 Performing im/mobility: The subjunctive mode and the aesthetics of possibility

Part III: Mahmoud and the greatest adventure
6 Mediterranean crossings and the media
7 The middle passage: The adventurous search for one’s luck
8 Animating the crossing as plural experience

Part IV: Mohamed and the futures lost
9 Not a criminal, nor a child
10 ‘A tiny plastic card’ - the legalisation process
11 In search of futures lost

Epilogue: Stories that are documents of a life -- .

Erscheint lt. Verlag 24.2.2026
Reihe/Serie Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography
Zusatzinfo 39 figures
Verlagsort Manchester
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-13 9781526151841 / 9781526151841
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