Metafuture: Futures Studies by Sohail Inayatullah and Ivana Milojević
A Selection of CLA Articles
Two Decades of Causal Layered Analysis: A Bibliometric Analysis and Review (2000– 2022)
By Abdul Wahab
Significance:
This is the most recent and authoritative review of the field. It analyzes 292 peer-reviewed articles to identify the most influential authors, key trends, and the overall impact of CLA across different disciplines.
What Drives my Futures as a Plant-Eater
By Ralph Mercer
Significance:
The versatility of CLA is front and center when it intersects with personal reflections and external data to tell a story.
Imagining Possible Futures: A Comparative Analysis
By Nur Anisah Abdullah, Jesica Fernanda Bastidas Cruz, Sophia Arrazola
Significance:
CLA meets a comparative study exploring how diverse mindscapes influence futures thinking, informing futures studies curricula and educator roles.
The Iceberg in the Room: A Causal Layered Analysis of Self with the Futures Sense of Yearning
By Marguerite Westacott
Significance:
The inner gaze of CLA is used to reveal the unknown and re-known, with the intention to explicate the meaning of the personal (self) as it relates to the collective.
Fear of the Future: Causal Layered Analysis and Narrative Foresight Versus Conspiracy Theories.
By Thomas F. Connolly
Significance:
Conspiracy theories can be reframed rather than dismissed through Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) and narrative foresight. After the historical roots of conspiracy theory are traced, narratives supporting conspiracies are discussed, and cognitive biases such as the conjunction fallacy are examined.