The Future is Haunted: Unveiling How Spectral Histories Shape Justice-Oriented Speculation

• In Event: Literacies Across Spatial Scales

Abstract

Building upon education research’s burgeoning interest in civic speculation, this paper takes up concepts of haunting and hauntology to interrogate how histories can recur and shape how youth compose justice-oriented visions of civic life. Thinking with data from two studies – a critical civic inquiry community of Indonesian American girls, and an online role-playing game community of suburban white boys – the authors trace how youths’ composed worlds at the intersections of many situated timelines and histories.

Authors

• Alex Corbitt, Syracuse University

• Ankhi Thakurta, Boston College