TY - JOUR AU - Capello, Carlo AU - Karampampas, Panas AU - Bacas, Jutta Lauth PY - 2021/07/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Future(s) of the Mediterraneans: Between Uncertainty and Resilience JF - EtnoAntropologia JA - EA VL - 9 IS - 1 SE - Sezione 1 DO - UR - https://rivisteclueb.it/index.php/etnoantropologia/article/view/354 SP - 7 - 20 AB - <p>In this introductory discussion, we argue that uncertainty can<br />be seen as a common feature of Mediterranean countries beyond their<br />varying histories and social realities. Such sense of uncertainty regarding the<br />present and the future – strongly linked to economic instability and political<br />turbulences – is analysed in this special issue through examples from the<br />South and the North of the Mediterranean. A particular focus is laid on<br />innovative forms of resilience, understood as actors’ capacities to adapt or<br />deal successfully with change, or with challenging circumstances. However,<br />we also discuss the limitations and potential misuses of the concept when<br />applied uncritically. Equally important in the case studies presented here, in<br />Greece as in Portugal, in Morocco and Tunisia as in the Italian case is the<br />investigation of social actors’ perception of the future. Times of crisis and the<br />capacity to aspire, anticipation and the individual or collective imagination:<br />these are topics also investigated by the articles of this special issue, which<br />are not only contributions to Mediterranean anthropology but also to the<br />anthropology of the future. Altogether, the articles scrutinise how powerful<br />imaginations of potential futures and orientations to the yet-to-come are in<br />structuring individual and collective experience in times of political and<br />economic uncertainty.</p> ER -