Temporalities after Progress: On Endurance and Living On (2025-)

‘Temporalities after Progress’ is an ongoing project headed by Dr Leila Dawney. It is funded under a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2025-2026).

As we acknowledge the limits of industrial progress and growth-based capital, places produced through the dreams of modernity are increasingly seen as “left behind”. The aim of the fellowship will be to challenge this temporal definition by investigating how the aftermath of failed infrastructure is lived and experienced. I will develop a new conceptual framework for understanding temporalities after progress in an illustrated monograph based on ethnographic research and creative collaborations in the former Soviet atomic city of Visaginas, Lithuania, entitled After Utopia.