Routledge Handbook of Social Futures

ISBN-13: 9781138340336 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 338 str.

Carlos López Galviz; Emily Spiers

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Why social futures?  1. A beginning: A critical history of scenarios  2. Agency: Futures literacy and Generation Z  3. AI: The social future of intelligence  4. Anticipation: Flourishing for the future  5. BioFutures: Where futurists and biologists meet  6. Borders: Retravelling Nickelsdorf   7. Climate change: Transformational adaptation in Bangladesh  8. Collaboration: Collaborative future-making  9. Data: The futures of personal data  10. Ecology: Thinking ecologically  11. Economics: Catalysing large-scale system change  12. Family: Homeland connections and family futures  13. Higher education: The future university  14. Inquiries: Healthcare futures  15. Lines: Material cultures of future mobility  16. Literary futures: What fiction can tell policy makers  17. Mental health: What can social futures teach us?  18. Mobility justice: Sustainable mobility futures  19. Multi-planetary worlds: Mobilities of the space age  20. Narrative: Telling social futures  21. Postcolonial futures: Urban eventualities  22. Prospection: Producing social futures  23. Publics: Infrastructuring proto-futures  24. Queering: Liberation futures with Afrofuturism  25. Smart cities: Policy without polity  26. Urbanism: Creating urban futures  27. Utopia: Futurity, realism and the social  28. Visible cities: Envisioning social futures  29. Walking futures: Following in the footsteps of mobility pioneers