Unruly Futures invite contributions that address how individuals and communities care for themselves and each other’s health amidst empire. Past practices and movements impacted the material and social world such that this archive of the past can be experienced in a myriad of ways in our present. Implicitly, this part of the project addresses data practices in the medical and social sciences by championing and alternative view of data. Contributors decide what is data through their additions to the growing repository. Accordingly, Otherwise Bodies, seeks to place a series of “resistance codes” into an interactive and reciprocal exhibit where various peoples, collectives, and positionalities can participate in what Linda Tuhiwai Smith calls “envisioning […] to bind people together politically asks that people imagine a future […] to dream a new dream and set a new vision.”** Rather than data as a mapping exercise through which an overarching pattern, a coherent theme, or a mechanism for universal practice can be applied, data in this repository is something that the audience and the contributor share, relate to, or grapple with as they confront myriad, and at times contradictory, imaginings. This component of the project allows for data and its analysis to be unruly in ways that produce new methods for theory, practice, and reciprocity in research.
**Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. 2nd ed. London, New York: Zed Books, 2012. pgs. 175, 174 https://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u5724900.
