{"title":"Whose Preferred Future Is This? On Possibility, Potential, and Plurality in Visions of the Future","authors":"Viraj Joshi","doi":"10.1177/19467567231170820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19467567231170820","url":null,"abstract":"What do the images of our futures tell us about the world we live in? Whose preferred future do we often imagine? That of the people, the planet, or solely made for profits of a few masters? If it is for the benefit of the people, who are they, how much do they benefit, and how will their lives be better? What unforeseen implications might this have for the planet? Speculation is famously a provocative medium that allows us to start crucial conversations without explicitly referring to sensitive anecdotes. In an increasingly polarised and fragmented world, these images hope to spark empathy, and promote a holistic, considerate discourse.","PeriodicalId":92860,"journal":{"name":"World futures review","volume":"12 1","pages":"99 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79252973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking ‘Hope’ and ‘Resilience’ in the Anthropocene: An Interview with David Chandler","authors":"D. Chandler, Shahira Hathout","doi":"10.1177/19467567231170828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19467567231170828","url":null,"abstract":"This is an interview with David Chandler, Professor of International Relations at Westminster University, UK, a leading scholar in the field of international politics and policy discourses of resilience in the Anthropocene. This interview explores the challenges presented by the Anthropocene and the ways that discourses of ‘hope’ and ‘resilience’ might effectively reflect and negotiate them.","PeriodicalId":92860,"journal":{"name":"World futures review","volume":"39 1","pages":"93 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79049329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Images of the Future in a Participatory Online Course – Empowering Student-Driven Projects for Higher Education Sustainability Transformation","authors":"Ludwig Weh, Lisa Kinne","doi":"10.1177/19467567231171360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19467567231171360","url":null,"abstract":"To empower student-driven projects for sustainability transformation in higher education structures, the project ‘Students create sustainable universities in Northrhine-Westphalia’ by German NGO netzwerk n e. V. has developed an innovative digital program (https://kurs.netzwerk-n.org/) using transdisciplinary and transformative learning elements in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Core objective of the 8-week massive open online course is to encourage and connect student promoters for sustainable university transformation. Its transdisciplinary learning methods encourage creation and reflexive discourse about alternative images of the future of sustainable institutions, processes and education, as well as human-nature-interaction and more-than-human futures. The integrated digital future workshop based on the participatory workshop method explores a novel approach to assess images of the future individually and collectively in digital space. This paper presents the conceptual background and methodological premises used for design and implementation of the online course as innovative method for student project development. Participants’ structured critique, utopia envisioning and specific project development provide valuable insights into the use of images of the future for higher education sustainability discourse and transformative action in student-driven sustainability projects.","PeriodicalId":92860,"journal":{"name":"World futures review","volume":"137 1","pages":"75 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77220981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scry, the Beloved Country: Sinofuturist Forecasting and Accelerationist Aesthetics","authors":"Virginia L. Conn","doi":"10.1177/19467567231162951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19467567231162951","url":null,"abstract":"Sinofuturism has emerged within the last 5 years as a compelling label for a wide variety of artistic and literary practices that posit China as “the future” and the future as “Chinese.” Yet this term remains broadly undertheorized outside of accelerationist spheres, where it is often taken as a self-evident truism. In this piece, I explore how—despite its many and varied instantiations—sinofuturist approaches broadly share a preoccupation with temporal surveillance that reinterprets the past as a precondition of an inevitable future, thereby enrolling viewers/readers in the creation of such a future. This practice has a longer history than the term itself presupposes, although the contemporary reimagining of sinofuturist characteristics as part of a globalized, self-defining network is almost entirely a result of engagement with internet technologies. Sinofuturism, despite its short history, carries deterministic paths (and assumptions) in its representations that constrain the potential for plural futures.","PeriodicalId":92860,"journal":{"name":"World futures review","volume":"69 1","pages":"56 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81318370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Paoletti, Tania Di Giuseppe, Carmela Lillo, G. Serantoni, G. Perasso, Alessandro Maculan, F. Vianello
{"title":"Training Spherical Resilience in Educators of the Juvenile Justice System during Pandemic","authors":"P. Paoletti, Tania Di Giuseppe, Carmela Lillo, G. Serantoni, G. Perasso, Alessandro Maculan, F. Vianello","doi":"10.1080/02604027.2023.2169569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2023.2169569","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper presents the results of a study investigating both predictors of resilience on a group of educators of the juvenile justice system and effects of group training on this construct. Results showed that (a) self-efficacy in managing positive and negative emotions and positive attitude are predictors of resilience and (b) the comparison of pre-post values revealed an impact of training affecting the balance between self-efficacy in managing positive and negative emotions and positive attitude. Ultimately, this study seems to indicate the need to promote targeted training experiences on emotion management for supporting the educators in the juvenile justice system.","PeriodicalId":92860,"journal":{"name":"World futures review","volume":"23 1","pages":"507 - 524"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83196701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"School as Soil: Pedagogies of Care for Alternative Future Imaginaries","authors":"Paula Albuquerque, Magda Pischetola","doi":"10.1177/19467567231151717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19467567231151717","url":null,"abstract":"In the majority of Brazilian public schools, poverty and social injustice prevail. Most students come from disadvantaged realities, and their future seems to be already defined by a lack of social mobility, exclusion from civil rights, and violence—a situation that has worsened with the global pandemic. Rooted in ethnographic research in public schools in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, this paper explores the role of pedagogies of care in creating alternative, possible, and preferable narratives about the future of these students. By using the metaphor of “school as soil”, the study identifies care in four dimensions: time, heterogeneity, mattering, and fertility. It draws on 12 semi-structured interviews with teachers from eight different public schools that were part of a larger doctoral project. By researching school as soil, we examine how pedagogies of care encourage teachers’ speculation about preferable imaginaries for the future of their students. Results show that despite precarious resources and scarce institutional support, pedagogies of care appear in multiple reported situations, aiming to inspire learning processes, give voice and agency to the socially marginalized, and allow for ways of thinking that offer alternatives to the seemingly ubiquitous oppressive relations.","PeriodicalId":92860,"journal":{"name":"World futures review","volume":"30 1","pages":"38 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87595001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Trip Through Tomorrowland: The World Expo as Futures Lab","authors":"Toby Shulruff, Levi Wyman","doi":"10.1177/19467567231151718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19467567231151718","url":null,"abstract":"To shape just and equitable futures in which we all flourish, we need visions crafted by a broader range of voices that acknowledge everyone’s stake and account for the creativity, ingenuity, and place-based knowledge of everyday life around the planet. In addition, experiential and inclusive environments for imagining futures on a large scale are needed. We propose a concept of Futures Labs as plural, interactive, relational, cross-temporal, and immersive spaces for crafting, experiencing, and deliberating the futures we need. We analyze World Expos as one potential site in which to implement this concept based on our own experiences at the Expo2020 in Dubai. We discuss how aspects of Expos already meet the criteria of a Futures Lab and make proposals for ways to iterate this “lab” and enhance the role of World Expos in shaping global futures ahead of the upcoming 2025 Expo in Osaka, Japan.","PeriodicalId":92860,"journal":{"name":"World futures review","volume":"28 1","pages":"22 - 37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79004282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Future of Revolutions in the 21st Century and the World System Reconfiguration","authors":"L. Grinin, Andrey Korotayev","doi":"10.1080/02604027.2022.2050342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2022.2050342","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract At present the World System is undergoing considerable transformations. We expect that in connection with the World System reconfiguration the number of revolutions as well as their role as a means of the world-system transformation may increase noticeably. We analyze the future of revolutions in a number of aspects, namely: (1) the evaluation of their number in comparison with the previous period; (2) their role as a tool defining the future progress of societies and the World System; (3) possible changes of the forms of revolutionary events.","PeriodicalId":92860,"journal":{"name":"World futures review","volume":"20 1","pages":"69 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81872835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Great Adventurer: David Loye’s “Hololeap” to Future Vision","authors":"R. Bradley","doi":"10.1080/02604027.2022.2161788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2022.2161788","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract David Loye’s concept of the hololeap describes how precognitive information “leaps” across the gap between organisms to enable future vision. This maps to Denis Gabor’s energetic unit of information, the logon, wherein the spectral overlap among logons provides the means for future vision. In rediscovering Darwin’s “lost” theory, Loye found that selfless love was Darwin’s key principle in human evolution. Groundbreaking studies in psi research document love’s subtle but crucial role in future vision and nonlocal agency, and point to an understanding of evolution theory in which love plays a primary generative role. Loye’s intuition was right on the mark!","PeriodicalId":92860,"journal":{"name":"World futures review","volume":"10 1","pages":"1 - 28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82804985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}