Affecting and spatializing future(s) among young entrepreneurs in the South Italy.

Predominantly set within the sociological framework, this essay focuses on the intersection dynamics between the construction of the future and the constitution of space in the case of young entrepreneurs from southern Italy. The analysis is based on thirty biographies of young people from three major regions of southern Italy: Calabria, Campania and Sardinia. For the most part, these young people have decided, after gaining experience abroad, to return to their birthplaces and try to develop their work projects. By exploring the continuous intertwining of temporalities that characterize their future, we highlight how the future is spatialized by exercising aesthetic reflexivity. The results also reveal the emergence of critical affirmative agency, opposing the prevailing narrative of presentism through constructing a multitemporal future conceived through the re-figuration of the spatial order. • Time and space are temporalized and spatialized. • Future as affective state produces a new articulation between space and places. • Through the spatialization of the future, individuals express an affirmative critique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]