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Rescuing All Our Futures The Future of Futures Studies
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Ziauddin Sardar
ISBN: 0-275-96559-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96559-4
280 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/30/1999
List Price: $36.95 (UK Sterling Price: £25.95)
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Media Type: Paperback
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Description: 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.
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
About the Author: 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.
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