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Routledge Handbook of Social Futures by Carlos López Galviz (editor), Emily Spiers (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Routledge Handbook of Social Futures about?

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. Engaging with key defining questions of the early twenty-first century such as climate change, big data, AI, the future of economics, education, mental health, cities and more, the Handbook provides a review and synthesis of futures scholarship, highlighting the role that societies can and should play in their making. While the various chapters demonstrate how futures emerge and take shape in particular places at particular times, the distinctive insight provided by the volume overall is that futures thinking today must be social and contextual. By presenting a range of futures work from contexts around the globe, the Handbook contextualizes techniques – forecasting, backcasting, scenario planning, collaboration and co-production– to ask how different dimensions of the social are created and circulated in the process. Through its thirty chapters, the volume explores and interrogates narratives, anticipations, enactments, ecologies, collaborations, prospections and

Who reads Routledge Handbook of Social Futures?

Author

Carlos López Galviz (editor), Emily Spiers (editor)

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781032129549

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Social Science