Conference in Uppsala, April 24–26, 2024 #SANT2024
In a global context where precarity is growing, improvisation plays a central role for the majority of the world’s population living with uneven access to primary resources such as food, water and healthcare which mark the current unequal social, political, environmental, and economic conditions across the world. Yet, improvisation may also be a way to reimagine the future, by turning forms of anticipation, like uncertainty, fear and anxiety, into new pathways of possibility and hope. Improvisation, as the
However, improvisation is not merely defined by people in vulnerable conditions. Anthropologists have also shown that the powerful and elite across commercial, scientific, and political sectors expand and exercise their acts of grabbing and extraction by different techniques and tactics of improvisation that are often hidden behind discourses of objectivity, progress, and innovation. At the same time, anthropologists tend to work with improvisation theoretically and methodologically: defining and seeing the