ABSTRACT This article introduces the special issue of Continuum on ‘Precarious Futures: Cultural Studies in Pandemic Times’. The issue arises out of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia conference ‘Cultural Transformation’ held in December 2019, in Meanjin (Brisbane), on the land of the Jagera and Turrbal peoples. The articles in this special issue originate from this conference, and have thus been written and revised in the unusually difficult circumstances caused by the emergence of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Taking up (and indeed living) the theme of ‘precarious futures’, the authors of these papers canvass topics related to this issue, including: environmental transformations caused by climate change and species extinction; global food security; modes of protest in climate crisis and pandemic crisis; affective politics; colonialism; drone technologies; science fiction realities; futurist biologies; resurrection science and art; feminist hauntology; feminist futures and academic precarity; and current approaches in medical humanities to emerging health issues.

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岌岌可危的未来：大流行时期的文化研究

摘要 本文介绍了 Continuum 的特刊“危险的未来：大流行时期的文化研究”。该问题源于澳大拉西亚文化研究协会于 2019 年 12 月在 Jagera 和 Turrbal 人民的土地上的 Meanjin（布里斯班）举行的“文化转型”会议。本期特刊中的文章源于本次会议，因此在全球 COVID-19 大流行造成的异常困难的情况下撰写和修订。这些论文的作者以“不稳定的未来”为主题（实际上是活在当下），探讨了与该问题相关的主题，包括：气候变化和物种灭绝引起的环境变化；全球粮食安全；气候危机和大流行危机中的抗议方式；情感政治；殖民主义；无人机技术；科幻现实；未来生物学；复活科学与艺术；女权主义巫术；女权主义的未来和学术不稳定；以及当前医学人文学科对新出现的健康问题的处理方法。