Routledge handbook of social futures / edited by Carlos López Galviz, Emily Spiers, Monika Büscher, Astrid Nordin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

López Galviz, Carlos, editor.

Spiers, Emily, 1977- editor.

Büscher, Monika, 1964- editor.

Nordin, Astrid, editor.

Series:

Routledge international handbooks

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social prediction.

Social change.

Social history.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Carlos López Galviz, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in the Theories and Methods of Social Futures at Lancaster University, UK. His books include Global Undergrounds (2016) and Cities, Railways, Modernities: London, Paris and the Nineteenth Century (2019). Emily Spiers, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Creative Futures at Lancaster University, UK. They are the author of Pop-Feminist Narratives: The Female Subject under Neoliberalism in North America, Britain and Germany (2018) and the co-editor, with Tobias Boes and Rebecca Braun of World Authorship (2020).

Summary:

Featuring chapters from an international range of leading and emerging scholars, this Handbook provides a collection of cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research that sheds new light on contemporary futures studies. Engaging with key defining questions of the early twenty-first century such as climate change, big data, AI, the future of economics, education, mental health, cities and more, the Handbook provides a review and synthesis of futures scholarship, highlighting the role that societies can and should play in their making. While the various chapters demonstrate how futures emerge and take shape in particular places at particular times, the distinctive insight provided by the volume overall is that futures thinking today must be social and contextual. By presenting a range of futures work from contexts around the globe, the Handbook contextualizes techniques - forecasting, backcasting, scenario planning, collaboration and co-production- to ask how different dimensions of the social are created and circulated in the process. Through its thirty chapters, the volume explores and interrogates narratives, anticipations, enactments, ecologies, collaborations, prospections and so on to highlight which versions of the social are legitimized and which are encouraged and foreclosed. This Handbook opens an important conversation about the centrality of the social in futures thinking. By bringing arts, humanities and social sciences scholars and practitioners into conversation with biologists, environmental, climate and computer scientists, this volume seeks to encourage new pathways across, between and within multiple disciplines to interrogate the futures we need and want. The social must be our starting point if we are to steer our planet in a direction that supports good lives for the many, everywhere.

Notes:

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL FUTURES.

ISBN:

9780429440717

0429440715

9780429803833

0429803834

9780429803840

0429803842

0429803850

9780429803857

OCLC:

1273727181

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