Routledge Handbook of Social Futures

Carlos López Galviz, Emily Spiers (Lancaster University, UK), Monika Buscher , Astrid Nordin

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Routledge
23 November 2021

Social forecasting, future studies; Sociology

Series: Routledge International Handbooks

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 so on to highlight which versions of the social are legitimized and which are encouraged and foreclosed.

This Handbook opens an important conversation about the centrality of the social in futures thinking. By bringing arts, humanities and social sciences scholars and practitioners into conversation with biologists, environmental, climate and computer scientists, this volume seeks to encourage new pathways across, between and within multiple disciplines to interrogate the futures we need and want. The social must be our starting point if we are to steer our planet in a direction that supports good lives for the many, everywhere.

By: Monika Buscher, Astrid Nordin
Edited by: Carlos López Galviz, Emily Spiers (Lancaster University, UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 900g
ISBN: 9781138340336
ISBN 10: 1138340332
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 23 November 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Why social futures? 1. A beginning: A critical history of scenarios 2. Agency: Futures literacy and Generation Z 3. AI: The social future of intelligence 4. Anticipation: Flourishing for the future 5. BioFutures: Where futurists and biologists meet 6. Borders: Retravelling Nickelsdorf 7. Climate change: Transformational adaptation in Bangladesh 8. Collaboration: Collaborative future-making 9. Data: The futures of personal data 10. Ecology: Thinking ecologically 11. Economics: Catalysing large-scale system change 12. Family: Homeland connections and family futures 13. Higher education: The future university 14. Inquiries: Healthcare futures 15. Lines: Material cultures of future mobility 16. Literary futures: What fiction can tell policy makers 17. Mental health: What can social futures teach us? 18. Mobility justice: Sustainable mobility futures 19. Multi-planetary worlds: Mobilities of the space age 20. Narrative: Telling social futures 21. Postcolonial futures: Urban eventualities 22. Prospection: Producing social futures 23. Publics: Infrastructuring proto-futures 24. Queering: Liberation futures with Afrofuturism 25. Smart cities: Policy without polity 26. Urbanism: Creating urban futures 27. Utopia: Futurity, realism and the social 28. Visible cities: Envisioning social futures 29. Walking futures: Following in the footsteps of mobility pioneers

Carlos López Galviz, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in the Theories and Methods of Social Futures at Lancaster University, UK. His books include Global Undergrounds (2016) and Cities, Railways, Modernities: London, Paris and the Nineteenth Century (2019). Emily Spiers, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Creative Futures at Lancaster University, UK. They are the author of Pop-Feminist Narratives: The Female Subject under Neoliberalism in North America, Britain and Germany (2018) and the co-editor, with Tobias Boes and Rebecca Braun of World Authorship (2020).

Reviews for Routledge Handbook of Social Futures

Thinking intelligently about the future has never been more important. Too often, however, it is dominated by the failed futurisms of prediction and probability. This book brings together in one place a host of new insights into how social futures are being made today - from the relationship between pasts and futures and conflicting temporalities, to the role of narratives, new technologies, migration and planetary change. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the study of social futures and, in particular, for all of those interested in creating better futures. The book has the potential to set out a new, practice based, contextual and situated approach to the study of futures that locates 'the social' at the heart of futures studies, creating a new interdisciplinary dialogue that will enrich the field. Keri Facer, Professor of Educational and Social Futures, University of Bristol, Editor in Chief Futures