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- A Movement Matured: Results of a Co-citation Analysis, and Some
Reflections on the Relations Between Social Structure and Ideas in Futures
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Authors: Christian Dayé
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
Scholars and practitioners have long criticized the inherent dominance of Western ideas in futures studies and claimed the need for a de-centering or decolonizing of the field. As a process of transforming science, de-centering occurs on at least two levels: at the level of thought and at the level of social structure. Sociologists of science, Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholars, and others have conducted research for many years on the interlinkages between social structures and knowledge structures and have developed several concepts to do so. In this article, I discuss some of these concepts and combine these theoretical conceptualizations with a co-citation analysis of recent publications in the futures studies. Based on a sample of futures studies publications that have appeared in the last ten years (n = 500) retrieved from the Web of ScienceTM database, a strongly inter-related network with four clusters can be identified. The works in each these four clusters are related in terms of their subject matter. They concern (1) the politico-intellectual program of futures studies, (2) their epistemological foundations, (3) questions of methodology, and (4) scenarios as the core technique of futures thinking. Both the works and their authors come from a broad variety of cultural backgrounds; they also display a relatively high number of co-citations with works in clusters other than their own. Taken together, these findings indicate that the information space sampled in this study to represent futures studies has already become de-centered to a large degree, both at the level of social structure and at the level of thought.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-05-04T11:30:31Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231170822
- Whose Preferred Future Is This' On Possibility, Potential, and Plurality
in Visions of the Future-
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Authors: Viraj Joshi
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
What do the images of our futures tell us about the world we live in' Whose preferred future do we often imagine' That of the people, the planet, or solely made for profits of a few masters' If it is for the benefit of the people, who are they, how much do they benefit, and how will their lives be better' What unforeseen implications might this have for the planet' Speculation is famously a provocative medium that allows us to start crucial conversations without explicitly referring to sensitive anecdotes. In an increasingly polarised and fragmented world, these images hope to spark empathy, and promote a holistic, considerate discourse.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-04-19T06:55:40Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231170820
- Rethinking ‘Hope’ and ‘Resilience’ in the Anthropocene: An
Interview with David Chandler-
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Authors: David Chandler, Shahira Hathout
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
This is an interview with David Chandler, Professor of International Relations at Westminster University, UK, a leading scholar in the field of international politics and policy discourses of resilience in the Anthropocene. This interview explores the challenges presented by the Anthropocene and the ways that discourses of ‘hope’ and ‘resilience’ might effectively reflect and negotiate them.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-04-13T01:56:41Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231170828
- Scry, the Beloved Country: Sinofuturist Forecasting and Accelerationist
Aesthetics-
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Authors: Virginia L. Conn
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
Sinofuturism has emerged within the last 5 years as a compelling label for a wide variety of artistic and literary practices that posit China as “the future” and the future as “Chinese.” Yet this term remains broadly undertheorized outside of accelerationist spheres, where it is often taken as a self-evident truism. In this piece, I explore how—despite its many and varied instantiations—sinofuturist approaches broadly share a preoccupation with temporal surveillance that reinterprets the past as a precondition of an inevitable future, thereby enrolling viewers/readers in the creation of such a future. This practice has a longer history than the term itself presupposes, although the contemporary reimagining of sinofuturist characteristics as part of a globalized, self-defining network is almost entirely a result of engagement with internet technologies. Sinofuturism, despite its short history, carries deterministic paths (and assumptions) in its representations that constrain the potential for plural futures.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-03-27T02:39:36Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231162951
- Why Decenter Images of the Future Matter: Absences, Alternatives, and
Accomplishments Challenging Future Visions-
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Authors: Martín Pérez Comisso, Dayna Jeffrey
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-03-25T07:53:44Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231164460
- A Trip Through Tomorrowland: The World Expo as Futures Lab
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Authors: Toby Shulruff, Levi Wyman
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
To shape just and equitable futures in which we all flourish, we need visions crafted by a broader range of voices that acknowledge everyone’s stake and account for the creativity, ingenuity, and place-based knowledge of everyday life around the planet. In addition, experiential and inclusive environments for imagining futures on a large scale are needed. We propose a concept of Futures Labs as plural, interactive, relational, cross-temporal, and immersive spaces for crafting, experiencing, and deliberating the futures we need. We analyze World Expos as one potential site in which to implement this concept based on our own experiences at the Expo2020 in Dubai. We discuss how aspects of Expos already meet the criteria of a Futures Lab and make proposals for ways to iterate this “lab” and enhance the role of World Expos in shaping global futures ahead of the upcoming 2025 Expo in Osaka, Japan.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-01-13T02:28:16Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231151718
- School as Soil: Pedagogies of Care for Alternative Future Imaginaries
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Authors: Paula Albuquerque, Magda Pischetola
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
In the majority of Brazilian public schools, poverty and social injustice prevail. Most students come from disadvantaged realities, and their future seems to be already defined by a lack of social mobility, exclusion from civil rights, and violence—a situation that has worsened with the global pandemic. Rooted in ethnographic research in public schools in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, this paper explores the role of pedagogies of care in creating alternative, possible, and preferable narratives about the future of these students. By using the metaphor of “school as soil”, the study identifies care in four dimensions: time, heterogeneity, mattering, and fertility. It draws on 12 semi-structured interviews with teachers from eight different public schools that were part of a larger doctoral project. By researching school as soil, we examine how pedagogies of care encourage teachers’ speculation about preferable imaginaries for the future of their students. Results show that despite precarious resources and scarce institutional support, pedagogies of care appear in multiple reported situations, aiming to inspire learning processes, give voice and agency to the socially marginalized, and allow for ways of thinking that offer alternatives to the seemingly ubiquitous oppressive relations.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2023-01-13T02:17:16Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567231151717
- Islamic Religious Education in Kazakhstan: Applying Futures Studies to
Skyrocket the Reform-
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Authors: Yelena V. Muzykina
Pages: 93 - 105
Abstract: World Futures Review, Volume 14, Issue 2-4, Page 93-105, June-December 2021.
Futures studies and foresight are new disciplines for Central Asia. Their methodology is making the first steps in the region. The present paper tests how narrative foresight can be applied in the field of religious education reform. For Kazakhstan, Islamic education has become a critical aspect of socio-cultural life. Its present situation requires radical changes, and the seven core questions of narrative foresight methodology help to research the vital dimensions of the problem in the quest for a solution. Going through the history of the issue, the forecast for current trends, identifying critical assumptions, and building alternative futures helps to arrive at the preferred future for Islamic education in Kazakhstan. With a new vision, some practical steps come forward that can guide to that new reality embodied in a new metaphor.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2022-11-29T03:33:50Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567221091440
Issue No: Vol. 14, No. 2-4 (2022)
- Designing ‘Futures Studies Journeys’. Addressing Users of Futures
Studies Using a Contingency Approach-
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Authors: Patrick van der Duin, Dhoya Snijders
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
The Dutch government has a large and diverse range of advisory councils and planning agencies that produce studies of the future as an input to the development of strategic government policy. The work of these organisations is important and relevant, as well as very diverse in terms of their approach to the future, the methodologies they use, and the topics on which they focus. In particular, they serve different users, who all use these studies for their own purposes. As a result, there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to designing a futures study. To deal with this variety, we use a contingency approach with which we set up a framework presenting different ‘futures studies journeys’ that relate different user goals to different approaches to the future, to different phases in policy-processes in which the futures study is used, and to different methods to be employed.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2022-12-01T02:06:11Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567221140607
- Editorial
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Authors: Yelena Muzykina
First page: 91
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2022-10-27T08:48:56Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567221136737
- Skills Technology Foresight in Practice: The Case of the Atlas of New
Professions of Kazakhstan-
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Authors: Sayasat Nurbek, Yerbol Sagatov, John A. Sweeney
First page: 106
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
In order to meet the demands of building a workforce prepared to confront 21st century challenges, Kazakhstan initiated a national project guided by the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) efforts to bridge the gap between educational systems and the labor market. The “Atlas of New Professions of Kazakhstan” utilizes a Skills Technology Foresight methodology developed originally by the SKOLKOVO Education Development Center in partnership with the ILO. This article reflects not only on key results of the project but also on the process of engaging a wide array of stakeholders on the impacts and implications of new and emerging technologies as well as some of the methodological implications of engaging in such work. Outcomes from this project have ramifications for national labor and education policy with specific attention as to how students and families can make future-oriented career choices.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2022-05-26T05:23:23Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567221104897
- Design & Society: Design as a Force for Behavioral Change at Scale in
Kazakhstan-
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Authors: Noteh Krauss
First page: 117
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
Through an examination of the relationship of politics and aesthetics this paper challenges outdated human-centered modes of design in order to offer a new framework—Design & Society—which accounts for the role that politics, ideologies, systematic relationships, context and narratives play and have played in shaping the lived reality of past, contemporary and future life. Through a deep examination of the politico-design economy of Astana (since renamed Nur-Sultan) championed by former president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev this paper peels back the strategic layers for the creation of Astana. Relevant to designers, policy-makers, futurists, business interests, and those studying the urban environment in general as well the nation of Kazakhstan in particular, this paper unravels the layers of history, demographic pressures, and geopolitical posturing that have intentionally placed Astana as a force changing Kazakh society forever by causing behavioral change at scale. This paper outlines a three-stage process of creation: conceptualization, materialization, and realization to track the design process of Astana and its effects at large on a personal level for millions of Kazakhs. In the conceptualization stage, the paper tracks the motivators from the past, the present considerations and future goals for the design of Astana. In the materialization stage, the threads are weaved together into the architecture of the three most prominent buildings in the Kazakh Capital: The Palace of Peace and Accord, Khan Shatyr Shopping Center and Baiterek tower. In the realization stage, the impact on the individuals of Kazakhstan is considered. Through this study, the dance of Design & Society and the ever evolving impact of one onto the other is presented as a key lens for all future studies of design.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2022-05-24T01:08:48Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567221095179
- Navigating Representation: Reflections on the Futures of Kazakh Identity
From a CLA Scenarios Process-
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Authors: Jose Ramos
First page: 133
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
This short essay reflects on the process of running a Causal Layered Analysis scenario exercise with the Institute for Professional Development at the Academy of Public Administration in Kazakhstan in collaboration with John Sweeney (from the then Qazaq Research Institute for Futures Studies). We worked with approximately 50 public administrators over a 3 day period, culminating in a Causal Layered Analysis scenario process that challenged and reviewed the national vision. The process surfaced fundamental dynamics and tensions in national identity and representation. The findings and process are detailed here.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2022-09-04T01:41:21Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567221108802
- Futurizing DBA Curriculum: A Class in Kazakhstan
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Authors: Nur Anisah Abdullah
First page: 138
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
This essay aims to share with the community of practice an approach for incorporating and embedding Futures and scenarios into business school curriculum as part of strategy development practice with a view to strike a balance between scientific rigour and practical relevance of management education. Through the conduct of a 3-day Foresight for Strategy Development workshop curated for as an intensive course for a cohort of DBA students at the Narxoz Business School, Almaty, Kazakhstan, the author describes the step-by-step process of building scenarios and shares some of the learning outcomes from the workshop. The 3-day workshop was designed with two objectives; that is, to teach the basic skills of futures thinking by introducing futures studies, and to incorporate the five stages of scenario development process as part of strategic planning practice. While students learned the reasons for and the process of embedding scenarios as a planning tool, and were able to apply theory to practice in classroom exercises, this cohort of DBA students found it quite challenging to have a proper grasp of Futures concepts and methodologies. They were overwhelmed by the amount of contents they have to process within the space of a 3-day intensive workshop. This feedback was not peculiar to this cohort of students and it was a common lament received from the various workshops conducted in different countries including Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Taiwan, Bahrain and Oman. This was particularly true with those in the developing economies where futures studies is relatively a new discipline. This experience tells us there is an opportunity to fill this void by introducing and embedding futures studies and scenarios as part of the planning and strategy development in Management courses in Kazakhstan.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2022-06-08T11:45:29Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567221094440
- Futures and Foresight in Kazakhstan: From Oil and Pastures to Artificial
Intelligence and Connected Markets-
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Authors: Susann Roth
First page: 151
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2022-10-26T12:42:34Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567221137439
- The futures dilemma:to be left behind or make a difference
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Authors: Yelena Muzykina
First page: 158
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
An Interview with Sohail Inayatullah for the Special Issue on Central Asian Futures
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2022-03-14T05:59:29Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567221082365
- The World Future Day Method: A 24-hour Round-The-World Global Discussion
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Authors: Mara Di Berardo
First page: 165
Abstract: World Futures Review, Ahead of Print.
The World Future Day is a 24-h round-the-world global conversation about the futures and represents a new kind of futures method. Launched for the first time by the Millennium Project in 2014, it is an open large-scale global participatory discussion among self-selected future-oriented people from around the world. The work introduces the main characteristics of the WFD method, the protocol of analysis, first considerations about its strengths and weaknesses, and the main results of the 2021 application on March 1. The results are reported in form of suggestions and solutions aggregated in clusters and macro-clusters related to some of the global challenges facing humanity and set a common agenda for further discussion.
Citation: World Futures Review
PubDate: 2022-05-26T11:08:06Z
DOI: 10.1177/19467567221090539
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