Whose Futures? gathers essays and reflections examining how the future is imagined within Indigenous political thought. Within, “the future” is no neutral horizon, and the contributors question who is allowed to imagine it, who benefits from dominant visions of progress, and how Indigenous epistemologies reshape the idea of what lies ahead.

The book situates imagination as a political practice. Drawing on Māori and broader Indigenous perspectives, it explores how visions of alternative futures emerge from relationships to land, ancestry, sovereignty, and collective survival. These frameworks often challenge Western models of linear time, replacing them with conceptions where the past remains present and the future unfolds through inherited responsibilities.

The volume belongs to a growing body of writing that treats futurity as an extension of Indigenous governance, knowledge systems, and resistance.