Futures beyond Dystopia: Creating Social Foresight
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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 figuresForewordAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroductionPt. 1Aspects of futures enquiry31A twenty-first-century agenda52Are there futures beyond Dystopia?153Professional standards in futures work31Pt. 2The case against hegemony494Three pop futurist texts515Perils of breadth American style67Pt. 3Expanding and deepening a futures frame856Beyond the mundane877Changing methods and approaches in Futures Studies100Pt. 4Futures Studies and the integral agenda1138Transcending flatland1159A new framework for environmental scanning12710Knowledge creation, futures methods and the integral agenda13811Towards integral futures152Pt. 5Social learning through applied foresight16912Futures Studies to social foresight17113Emergence of futures into the educational mainstream18614Creating and sustaining second-generation Institutions of Foresight20015Foresight in a social context211Pt. 6Strategies and outlooks22516A 'great transition' or many?22717Futures Studies as a civilizational catalyst236Conclusion: the dialectic of foresight and experience250Notes256Annotated futures bibliography267Index301
