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Rescuing All Our Futures Ziauddin Sardar

Rescuing All Our Futures By Ziauddin Sardar

Rescuing All Our Futures by Ziauddin Sardar


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The future is the last frontier where nonwestern societies are still free-free to envision desirable futures based on their own worldviews, cultures, and traditions.

Rescuing All Our Futures Summary

Rescuing All Our Futures: The Future of Futures Studies by Ziauddin Sardar

The future is the last frontier where nonwestern societies are still free-free to envision desirable futures based on their own worldviews, cultures, and traditions. Yet the discipline of futures studies, this volume argues, has abandoned its goal of exploring such diverse and alternative futures in favor of a single, myopic vision that is incapable of seeing outside the framework of western thought and action. Its overemphasis on forecasting and prediction, its overpreoccupation with technology, and its neglect of nonwestern cultures and concerns have transformed the discipline into an instrument for the colonization of the future. Distinguished contributors from a variety of cultural and disciplinary backgrounds discuss ways of bringing multiculturalism and plurality to the heart of futures studies and point towards new, decolonizing directions. This groundbreaking text will be essential reading for all those interested in helping shape more pluralistic and humane futures.

About Ziauddin Sardar

ZIAUDDIN SARDAR is an internationally renowned writer, futurist, and cultural critic. Author of some 30 books, he was recently appointed editor of Futures: The Journal of Policy, Planning and Future Studies. He has been actively involved in the futures movement for over two decades and is an executive board member of the World Futures Studies Federation.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Ziauddin Sardar The Problem of Futures Studies by Ziauddin Sardar How the Future is Cloned by Kirk W. Junker Rethinking Futures Studies by Eleonora B. Masini Reorienting Futures Studies by Sohail Inayatullah Feminising Futures Studies by Ivana Milojevic De-Westernising Futures Studies by Susantha Goonatilake Implementing Critical Futures Studies by Richard A. Slaughter Futures Studies and Futures Facilitators by S.P. Udayakumar Futures Studies and Future Surprises by Graham H. May Futures Studies and Foresight by Ted Fuller Futures Studies and Global Futures by Jan Nederveen Pieterse Futures Studies and Co-evolutionary Futures by Anne Jenkins and Morgen Witzel Futures Studies and the Future of Science by Steve Fuller Futures Studies and the Future of Art by Sean Cubitt Futures and Knowledge by Vinay Lal Futures and Prophecies by Jerome Ravetz Futures and Dissent by Ashis Nandy Other Futures Studies: A Bibliographic Essay by Merryl Wyn Davies Index

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NLS9780275965594
9780275965594
0275965597
Rescuing All Our Futures: The Future of Futures Studies by Ziauddin Sardar
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
1999-03-30
280
N/A
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