Metafuture: Futures Studies by Sohail Inayatullah and Ivana Milojević
Ivana Milojević[1] In 1995, we are part of thirty years of intensive feminist research. In these thirty years, research conducted from a feminist perspective has gone into many, sometimes even surprising, directions. Women’s studies now deal with women’s issues from…
By Sohail Inayatullah PERSONAL HISTORY Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar was born in May of 1921 in Bihar of an old and respected family that had its roots in regional leadership and in ancient spiritual traditions. Sarkar’s early life was dominated by…
Causal layered analysis is offered as a new futures research method. It utilityis not in predicting the future but in creating transformative spaces for the creation of alternative futures. Causal layered analysis consists of four levels: the litany, social causes,…
By Ivana Milojević First published 11 May 2020, Journal of Futures Studies. “The challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic is that …[a]t times such as these, our stress levels become higher and our difficult emotions seem to surface more readily. This…
JFS Blog, March 18, 2020 Perspectives, By Peter Black, Sohail Inayatullah Is this a Black Swan? Our colleague Louis Zheng from the Shanghai FuturistCircle suggested that no one had predicted COVID 19 Coronavirus. “Is it a black swan?” he asked.[1]…
Museum of Tomorrow, Rio de Janeiro. Picture by Sohail Inayatullah First published as JFS blog on February 26, 2020 By Sohail Inayatullah and Jaqueline Weigel THE CLA METHOD INTEGRATED INTO SCENARIOS One of the participants lowered this voice, and said:…
By Ivana Milojević, First published as JFS Blog, 11 February 2020. Lyn and Pam (names have been changed) are co-workers in an Australian organisation. They are in the middle of a conflict that has been brought to their director’s attention.…
Mapping the Present and the Future – through methods and tools such as the futures triangle and the futures landscape. Anticipating the Future – through methods such as emerging issues analysis and the futures wheel. Timing the Future – understanding…
By Sohail Inayatullah This essay reviews globalization and its alternative futures. It does this drawing from the epistemological and methodological focus of futures studies. Thus the futures is visited in a disciplined fashion the hope of moving away from idiosyncratic…