Abstract:Abstract. Visions for the future drive current practices and shape daily lives.
Recently, the future has also become a ubiquitous theme in the social sciences. Starting from the
observation that the future serves as an explanation and legitimization for the doings and
sayings of different groups of actors involved in the Bagré Growth Pole Project in Burkina
Faso, this paper offers an analysis of two instantiations of future-making. Based on 9 months of
ethnographic fieldwork in Burkina Faso, I examine how the … Show more
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