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Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurism are Democracy: STEM Possibilities for (Re)Humanizing Pedagogy in Education

Encounters in Theory and History of Education
How can STEM education benefit from a paradigm shift, beyond economic growth and citizenship development, towards alternative perspectives for problem-solving to combat anthropogenic dilemmas? This conceptual essay investigates why we should incorporate
Tiffany Harris
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“Okay ladies, now let’s get in formation!”: Music Videos and the Construction of Cultural Memory

Open Cultural Studies, 2017
This paper explores strategies for constructing and perpetuating cultural memory through music videos, using Beyonce’s Formation (2016) and Janelle Monae’s Many Moons (2008) and Q.U.E.E.N. (2013) as case studies. The medium’s idiosyncrasies create unique
Bertens Laura M. F.
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Vernacular Futurism: How Persian Language Users Imagine AI

AI &Innovation, Volume 1, Issue 2, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Public discourse about artificial intelligence increasingly unfolds through compressed forecasts, moral warnings, and everyday speculation circulating at platform speed. This study examines how Persian language users on X construct and contest AI futures, analyzing a corpus of 4741 posts collected between January 2023 and December 2025, with ...
Arthur Asa Berger, Ehsan Shahghasemi
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Indigenous Futurities: Theorizing Futurity in the Past and Present

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 330-338, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Over the past 20 years, a growing number of activists, scholars, writers, and visual artists have engaged with futurism as a framework for representing the lives of Indigenous peoples. Inspired by this hopeful reframing of the past‐present‐future, contributions to this special section of American Anthropologist address the question: How can ...
Lindsay Martel Montgomery, Heather Law Pezzarossi   +1 more
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The Futurism of Hip Hop: Space, Electro and Science Fiction in Rap

Open Cultural Studies, 2018
In the early 1980s, an important facet of hip hop culture developed a style of music known as electro-rap, much of which carries narratives linked to science fiction, fantasy and references to arcade games and comic books.
de Paor-Evans Adam
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Afrofuturism as Design

, 2021
El artículo tiene como objetivo posicionar el afrofuturismo como un proyecto de design. Para ello, parte de un tejido de significados del design— propuesto por Cardoso, Papanek y Flusser— para contextualizar la actividad desde la amplitud inherente de su concepto, aliado a las definiciones de Afrofuturismo propuestas por Yaszek y Dery, que lo ...
Nunes, Cynthia Maria Rocha, Arantes, Priscila Almeida Cunha   +1 more
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Collective grief, liminality, and redressive action in Black fans' embodied engagement with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Marvel's 2022 blockbuster film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was marked by the death of lead actor Chadwick Boseman in 2020, resulting in the cinematic death of his character T'Challa. For US Black audiences, the imagined nation of Wakanda served as more than entertainment, but a diasporic “home” at a time of deepening anti‐Blackness and ...
Marissa Smith Morgan
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African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract Antipode has become a key platform for engaging with decolonial and anticolonial scholarship, as well as adjacent fields such as Black geographies, Indigenous studies, Latin American feminism, and work on settler‐colonialism. African reference points in this literature, however, have been far less common, both in the journal and more broadly ...
Patricia Daley, Sabelo J. Ndlovu‐Gatsheni, Wangui Kimari, Franklin Obeng‐Odoom, Sylvia Tamale, Sybille Bauriedl, Sylvia Bawa, Inken Carstensen‐Egwuom, Grace Adeniyi‐Ogunyankin, Yousuf Al‐Bulushi, Stefan Ouma   +10 more
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Afrofuturism and Splendor & Misery

, 2019
A countercultural movement characterised by a dynamic understanding of the narrative authority held by texts, Afrofuturism rewrites African culture in a speculative vein, granting African and Afrodiasporic peoples a culturally empowered means of writing ...
Hay, Jonathan
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Afrofuturist Worlds: The Diseased Colonial Imagination and Christian Hope

Journal of Moral Theology
This article argues that the cultural tradition of Afrofuturism offers one potential solution to the diseased Christian colonial imagination diagnosed in the work of Willie James Jennings.
Adam Beyt
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