This Thing We Call the Future: The Material Consequences of the Imagination

Abstract

(abstract to come)

Publication
in Cultural History and the Anthropocene: Old Turns, New Encounters edited by Anders Ekström, Marit Ruge Bjærke, Brita Brenna, and John Ødemark, Bloomsbury, forthcoming (2026).
Merve Tabur
Merve Tabur
Lecturer/Researcher

I work at the intersection of comparative literature and environmental humanities, asking how speculative fiction, film, and visual arts from Southwest Asia and North Africa and their diasporas imagine futures otherwise.