2022 was a busy year of publishing innovation for the Journal of Futures Studies, publishing our first monograph and our first book anthology. These titles are now available to buy on hard copy and digital download. If you’re looking for some good reading to kick off your 2023, have a look at these publications.
Anticipation to Emancipation: Toward a Stage Theory of the Uses of the Future
by Sohail Inayatullah
Drawing on hundreds of case studies and decades of using the future in professional settings, this article moves toward a stage theory of the uses of the future, inquiring which methods and tools are appropriate for which national, institutional, organizational, and personal contexts. Seven stages are suggested and the entire process intends to enhance our ability to create justice in our perceived worlds, moving from one future to alternative futures, to the realization of preferred futures. The entire process is designed for the context of the user, to meet each person where she or he is at.
Infectious Futures: Reflections, Visions, and Worlds through and beyond COVID-19
Edited by Jose Ramos, Sohail Inayatullah, Peter Black, and John Sweeney
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 is an anthology of 28 essays written during the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, published by Tamkang University through the Journal of Futures Studies. It explores the symptoms, causes and futures of COVID-19 and has a wide range of insights for understanding future pandemics, as well as strategies to deal with epidemics and pandemics into our futures.
Chapter by chapter contributions include:
- Wildcards Are Our Teachers In A Co-Creative Cosmos, José Ramos
- Infected By The Future, Sohail Inayatullah
- 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
- 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
- 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, Jose Ramos, John A. Sweeney, Peter Black, Rafeeq Bosch, Abril Chimal, Otto C. Frommelt, Fazidah Ithnin & Joe Ravetz
- From Mourning To Dreaming…, John A. Sweeney
- COVID-19 is Here – ‘It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed’, Peter Black
