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July 27, 2026Children s Geographies

Futuring practices in and against the unequal distribution of futures

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VLValeria LlobetRRRachel Rosen

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Ethnographic study examines how marginalized youth create future possibilities amid constraints, highlighting their active role.

Key Points

  • This research explores how marginalized children and youth envision and enact futures in the face of structural inequality and abandonment.
  • Ethnographic research conducted in Carcova, Buenos Aires, and with unaccompanied migrant children in England.
  • Participatory projects and collaborative studies examining children's perspectives and practices.
  • Focus on children's everyday temporal work and material efforts to sustain life.
  • Children actively engage in imagining and creating futures, showing resilience amid constraints.
  • Futures are not predetermined but shaped by children's affective, relational, and material practices.
  • The research challenges perceptions of children as passive recipients, revealing their agency in negotiating possibilities.

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Llobet et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a67007840bca442e0d4a14dhttps://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2026.2704529
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