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Routledge Handbook of Social Futures

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Published
Publication date23/11/2021
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherRoutledge
Number of pages360
ISBN (electronic)9780429440717
ISBN (print)9781138340336, 9781032129549
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Publication series

NameRoutledge International Handbooks
PublisherRoutledge

Abstract

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.