Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/19467567231170820
Viraj Joshi
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/19467567231170828
D. Chandler, Shahira Hathout
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/19467567231171360
Ludwig Weh, Lisa Kinne
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.
为了让学生主导的项目在高等教育结构中实现可持续转型，德国非政府组织netzwerk n. V.发起的“学生在北威斯特伐利亚州创建可持续大学”项目开发了一个创新的数字项目(https://kurs.netzwerk-n.org/)，该项目使用了可持续发展教育(ESD)中的跨学科和变革性学习元素。这个为期8周的大规模在线开放课程的核心目标是鼓励和联系学生，促进大学的可持续转型。它的跨学科学习方法鼓励创造和反思性话语，讨论可持续的机构、过程和教育的未来，以及人与自然的互动和超越人类的未来。基于参与式研讨会方法的综合数字未来研讨会探索了一种新的方法来评估数字空间中个人和集体的未来图像。本文介绍了设计和实施在线课程作为学生项目开发的创新方法的概念背景和方法前提。参与者的结构化批评、乌托邦设想和具体的项目开发为高等教育可持续发展话语和学生驱动的可持续发展项目中的变革行动的未来图像的使用提供了有价值的见解。
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/19467567231162951
Virginia L. Conn
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1080/02604027.2023.2169569
P. Paoletti, Tania Di Giuseppe, Carmela Lillo, G. Serantoni, G. Perasso, Alessandro Maculan, F. Vianello
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-12DOI: 10.1177/19467567231151717
Paula Albuquerque, Magda Pischetola
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-12DOI: 10.1177/19467567231151718
Toby Shulruff, Levi Wyman
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02604027.2022.2050342
L. Grinin, Andrey Korotayev
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02604027.2022.2161788
R. Bradley
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!
David Loye的hololap概念描述了预知信息如何跨越生物体之间的差距，从而实现未来的愿景。这映射到Denis Gabor的能量信息单位，登录，其中登录之间的频谱重叠提供了未来视觉的手段。在重新发现达尔文的“失落”理论时，洛伊发现，无私的爱是达尔文在人类进化中的关键原则。psi研究的开创性研究记录了爱在未来愿景和非本地代理中微妙但至关重要的作用，并指出了对进化论的理解，其中爱起着主要的生成作用。洛伊的直觉很准!
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