Richard A. Slaughter

Futures Beyond Dystopia (eBook, ePUB)

Creating Social Foresight

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This analysis of current futures practice is split into six sections: the case against hegemony, expanding and deepening a futures frame, futures studies and the integral agenda, social learning through applied foresight, strategies and outlooks, and the dialectic of foresight and experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134414574
• Artikelnr.: 47885263

Autorenporträt

Richard A. Slaughter is President of the World Futures Studies Federation and is currently Director of the Australian Foresight Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Aspects of Futures Enquiry 1. A 21st Century Agenda 2. Are There
Futures Beyond Dystopia? 3. Professional Standards in Futures Work Part 2.
The Case Against Hegemony 4. Three Pop Futurist Texts 5. Perils of Breadth
American Style Part 3. Expanding and Deepening a Futures Frame 6. Beyond
the Mundane 7. Changing Methods and Approaches in Futures Studies Part 4.
Futures Studies and the Integral Agenda 8. Transcending Flatland 9. A New
Framework for Environmental Scanning 10. Knowledge Creation, Futures
Methods and the Integral Agenda 11. Towards Integral Futures Part 5. Social
Learning Through Applied Foresight 12. Futures Studies to Social Foresight
13. Emergence of Futures into the Educational Mainstream 14. Creating and
Sustaining Second Generation Institutions of Foresight 15. Foresight in a
Social Context Part 6. Strategies and Outlooks Conclusion: The Dialectic of
Foresight and Experience 16. A 'Great Transition' or Many? 17. Futures
Studies as a Civilizational Catalyst