COVID-19 has brought about a rupture in the trajectory of our societies, presenting the world with an unprecedented crisis, but also providing a point of reflection and an opening to imagine and articulate alternative futures. “Infectious Futures: Reflections, Visions, and Worlds Through and Beyond COVID-19” brings together 28 essays, articles and conversations from leading scholars and thinkers from around the world, who explore the existential questions that COVID-19 confronts us with, and who analyse and imagine how we may navigate this crisis to create preferred futures. This book challenges many of the core assumptions of our era, and invites us to see this moment as peculiar and transitory – and ripe with the potential for change. Amid the loss and grief is the possibility for renewal, as new visions emerge and lead to experiments and new pathways.
The book is edited by: Dr. Jose Ramos, Professor Sohail Inayatullah, Dr. Peter Black, Dr. John Sweeney, with production editing by Abril Chimal. It will be published as an ebook and in print in October 2021.
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Wildcards Are Our Teachers In A Co-Creative Cosmos | José Ramos
Infected By The Future | Sohail Inayatullah
SENSING & SENSEMAKING
Neither A Black Swan Nor A Zombie Apocalypse: The Futures of a World with the COVID-19 Coronavirus | Sohail Inayatullah & Peter Black
Let’s Take Bold Action on Health to Avoid Future Pandemics | Susann Roth & Najibullah Habib
COVID-19 Both Is And Is Not A Black Swan (And That’s Ok): Futures within and Beyond a Time of Crisis | John A. Sweeney
Three Scenarios For The Future Of Education In The Anthropocene | Kathleen Kesson
Pandemics: Lessons Looking Back From 2050 | Fritjof Capra & Hazel Henderson
Collective Intelligence To Solve The Megacrisis | William E. Halal
Minimising Conflicts Amidst The COVID-19 Pandemic | Ivana Milojević
COVID-19 & Pandemic Preparedness: Foresight Narratives And Public Sector Responses | Ivana Milojević
“System Of Life” A Metaphor For Re-Imagining the COVID-19 Pandemic | Rafeeq Bosch
Creating A New Renaissance: Can Responses To COVID-19 Pivot Us A To A Transformed World? | Sohail Inayatullah
FUTURES STUDIES RESPONDS TO THE PANDEMIC
Pandemic-3.0 – From Crisis To Transformation: Exploring The Covid-19 Challenge And Opportunity With Synergistic Pathways And Visual Foresight | Joe Ravetz
Post-Pandemic Worlds For Society, Government And Economy: Aftermath And Opportunities | Otto C. Frommelt
Applying The Futures Wheel And Macrohistory to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic | Phillip Daffara
Ancestors Of The Future: The Poetry And Potency Of Language | Marguerite Coetzee
What Will A Post Virus World Look Like? | Garry Honey
Triple-A Governance: Anticipatory, Agile And Adaptive | Jose Ramos, Ida Uusikyla and Nguyen Tuan Luong
Chrysalis: What Emerges from the COVID-19 Pandemic | Jose Ramos
How To Keep A Future Perspective In A Crisis | Karen Morley
Narrative Foresight And COVID-19: Successes And Failures In Managing The Pandemic | Ivana Milojević & Sohail Inayatullah
REGIONAL AND NATIONAL RESPONDS STUDIES
COVID-19 And The Futures Of Pakistan: Inclusive Foresight And Innovation | Sohail Inayatullah, Puruesh Chaudhary, Syed Sami Raza and Umar Sheraz
The Islamic World And COVID-19 Futures | Sohail Inayatullah
Looking For Alternatives Under COVID-19 Conditions: Islamic Religious Education in Kazakhstan | Yelena V. Muzykina
The Significance Of Futures Scenario Planning In Assuring Viability Of Higher Education In Disruptive Crises: A Case Study Of Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka In Response to the COVID-19 | Fazidah Ithnin
Infectious Futures: A Conversation | John A. Sweeney, Jose Ramos, Peter Black, Rafeeq Bosch, Abril Chimal, Otto C. Frommelt, Fazidah Ithnin & Joe Ravetz
CONLUSION
From Mourning To Dreaming… | John A. Sweeney
COVID-19 is Here – ‘It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed’ | Peter Black
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