van Emmerik, Corine; Coleman, Rebecca and Lyon, Dawn. 2024. Towards a minor sociology of futures: Shifting futures in Mass Observation accounts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Sociology, ISSN 1440-7833 [Article] (In Press)

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This article argues for a ‘minor sociology of futures’, which focuses on the significance of futures in and to everyday life by attending to minor shifts in temporal rhythms and patterns that illuminate how futures are imagined and made. We draw on Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of the major and minor, to attend to how major time is ruptured and remade and how minor temporalities can be productive of new relationships with the major and different futures. Our analysis focuses on the intricate and ambivalent relations with futures articulated in written reflections submitted during the early phase (March–November 2020) of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK to a Mass Observation directive on COVID-19 and time. Nourishing a sensitivity to the minor helps us develop a minor sociology that takes futures seriously, which we argue matters in times of uncertainty that stretch beyond the pandemic.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833241248672
Additional Information:	Funding: The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the British Academy (grant number SRG2021\211073)
Keywords:	time, temporality, futures, the minor, COVID-19
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Sociology > Centre for Invention and Social Process (CISP) [2016-] Sociology
Dates:	Date Event 28 March 2024 Accepted 27 May 2024 Published Online
Item ID:	36535
Date Deposited:	10 Jun 2024 08:31
Last Modified:	10 Jun 2024 08:31
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/36535

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