The future as a public good: decolonising the future through anticipatory participatory action research

IF 2.3 Q3 REGIONAL & URBAN PLANNING
Foresight Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI:10.1108/fs-11-2021-0225
R. Bourgeois, G. Karuri-Sebina, Kwamou Eva Feukeu
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to nurture reflections on the colonization of the future in the present with a particular focus on Africa. This paper aims at exploring how participatory research and particularly anticipatory action research can contribute to a decolonising process. Design/methodology/approach Considering the future as a public good, this paper develops a reflection on the colonization processes that can turn it into a club or a private good. This paper mobilizes the notions of participatory knowledge production and local action research as a way to decolonize the future and empower imagination. This paper revisits the tenets of participatory action research as a means to achieve this objective and discusses the main features of a non-colonial anticipatory action research in the context of African futures. Findings This paper highlights the challenges associated with connecting anticipatory endeavours focusing on action research, the creation of collective intelligence and co-design, with the intention of encouraging the decolonisation process. It includes design principles and anticipates a possible process of counter-decolonization. Research limitations/implications This is a conceptual paper, which does not provide field-tested evidence. Yet, the authors hope it serves as an input enabling to design methodologies that will prevent the colonisation of the future when engaging in future-oriented research activities in Africa and elsewhere. Originality/value This paper provides an integral approach to the colonisation of the future, as a renewed old question. This paper also connects this process with a reflection on the nature of what could be non-colonizing anticipatory action research.
作为公共产品的未来:通过前瞻性参与行动研究实现未来非殖民化
目的本文的目的是培养对当前未来殖民化的思考,特别关注非洲。本文旨在探讨参与性研究,特别是预期行动研究如何有助于非殖民化进程。设计/方法论/方法考虑到未来是一种公共产品,本文对可以将其变成俱乐部或私人产品的殖民化过程进行了反思。本文调动了参与式知识生产和地方行动研究的概念,以此作为未来非殖民化和增强想象力的一种方式。本文重新审视了参与性行动研究作为实现这一目标的手段的原则,并讨论了非洲未来背景下非殖民预期行动研究的主要特征。发现本文强调了将专注于行动研究、创造集体智慧和共同设计的预期努力与鼓励非殖民化进程联系起来所面临的挑战。它包括设计原则,并预测了反非殖民化的可能过程。研究局限性/含义这是一篇概念性论文,没有提供经过实地测试的证据。然而,作者们希望,在非洲和其他地方从事面向未来的研究活动时,它能成为设计方法的一种投入,防止未来的殖民。原创性/价值本文作为一个新的老问题,为未来的殖民提供了一个完整的方法。本文还将这一过程与对非殖民化预期行动研究性质的反思联系起来。
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Foresight
Foresight REGIONAL & URBAN PLANNING-
CiteScore
5.10
自引率
5.00%
发文量
45
期刊介绍: ■Social, political and economic science ■Sustainable development ■Horizon scanning ■Scientific and Technological Change and its implications for society and policy ■Management of Uncertainty, Complexity and Risk ■Foresight methodology, tools and techniques
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