Futures of Difference
Futures of Difference explores how social categories — race, gender, migration — are transforming. Essays & conversations with 30+ leading scholars. A scholarly platform from the Max Planck Institute, hosted by Steven Vertovec.
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How History Shapes Social Categories
Jeremy F. Walton
In the Habsburg Empire, you had to declare your "pertinency" to a specific place — even if you had never visited it and never would.
Anthropologist Jeremy F. Walton uses such radically unfamiliar categories to challeng...
Moving Public Spaces: Two Bus-Based Experiments
Where Do Group Boundaries Get Negotiated When Everyone Is in Motion?
Sociologist Arndt Emmerich takes two ordinary pieces of transport infrastructure seriously as political spaces: the 310 bus that London’s mayor introduced to link the...
Why Social Categories Resist Prediction
Jan Rath
What if social scientists simply cannot predict the future of social difference?
Sociologist Jan Rath offers a bracing corrective to academic future-gazing, arguing that societies are far too complex for forecasting. But his...
Why Belonging Can Amplify Social Difference: Conquest, Indigeneity and 'Promised Lands'
What Makes a Claim to Territory Legitimate?
Sociologist Robin Cohen takes apart three answers that have shaped the modern world: conquest, indigeneity, and the idea of a land promised by a deity. Each has been dressed in ethical languag...
Imagining the Future of Cultural Diversity
Alan Gamlen
There are no future facts — and for academics, that makes talking about the future deeply uncomfortable.
Political geographer Alan Gamlen argues this is exactly why we must do it. The future is shaped by decisions not yet...
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