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Authors: Richa Slaughter
ISBN-13: 9780415302692, ISBN-10: 0415302692
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: January 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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.
List of figures | ||
Foreword | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
List of abbreviations | ||
Introduction | ||
Pt. 1 | Aspects of futures enquiry | 3 |
1 | A twenty-first-century agenda | 5 |
2 | Are there futures beyond Dystopia? | 15 |
3 | Professional standards in futures work | 31 |
Pt. 2 | The case against hegemony | 49 |
4 | Three pop futurist texts | 51 |
5 | Perils of breadth American style | 67 |
Pt. 3 | Expanding and deepening a futures frame | 85 |
6 | Beyond the mundane | 87 |
7 | Changing methods and approaches in Futures Studies | 100 |
Pt. 4 | Futures Studies and the integral agenda | 113 |
8 | Transcending flatland | 115 |
9 | A new framework for environmental scanning | 127 |
10 | Knowledge creation, futures methods and the integral agenda | 138 |
11 | Towards integral futures | 152 |
Pt. 5 | Social learning through applied foresight | 169 |
12 | Futures Studies to social foresight | 171 |
13 | Emergence of futures into the educational mainstream | 186 |
14 | Creating and sustaining second-generation Institutions of Foresight | 200 |
15 | Foresight in a social context | 211 |
Pt. 6 | Strategies and outlooks | 225 |
16 | A 'great transition' or many? | 227 |
17 | Futures Studies as a civilizational catalyst | 236 |
Conclusion: the dialectic of foresight and experience | 250 | |
Notes | 256 | |
Annotated futures bibliography | 267 | |
Index | 301 |