scholarly journals Global Futures Series: Future of Hyperconnectivity.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Keller ◽  
Ryan Kennedy ◽  
Munaf Aamir ◽  
Richard Craft ◽  
Nancy Hayden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Futures

scholarly journals Founder’s Prize for New Scholars 2016: “Looking Down Time’s Telescope at Myself”: Reincarnation and Global Futures in David Mitchell’s Fictional Worlds

KronoScope ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-181
Author(s):  
Rose Harris-Birtill
Keyword(s):  
Buddhist Philosophy ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
End Of History ◽  
Ethical Approach ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The Face ◽  
Temporal Model ◽  
Global Futures ◽  
Future Consequences

AbstractThis essay explores the trope of reincarnation across the works of British author David Mitchell (b. 1969) as an alternative approach to linear temporality, whose spiralling cyclicality warns of the dangers of seeing past actions as separate from future consequences, and whose focus on human interconnection demonstrates the importance of collective, intergenerational action in the face of ecological crises. Drawing on the Buddhist philosophy of samsara, or the cycle of life, death, and rebirth, this paper identifies links between the author’s interest in reincarnation and its secular manifestation in the treatment of time in his fictions. These works draw on reincarnation in their structures and characterization as part of an ethical approach to the Anthropocene, using the temporal model of “reincarnation time” as a narrative strategy to demonstrate that a greater understanding of generational interdependence is urgently needed in order to challenge the linear “end of history” narrative of global capitalism.

scholarly journals Global futures of trade impacting the challenge to decarbonize the international shipping sector

Energy ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 121547
Author(s):  
Eduardo Müller-Casseres ◽  
Oreane Y. Edelenbosch ◽  
Alexandre Szklo ◽  
Roberto Schaeffer ◽  
Detlef P. van Vuuren
Keyword(s):  
International Shipping ◽  
Global Futures

Research directions in social and environmental education

1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Fien
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Values Education ◽  
Social Education ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Global Futures ◽  
Two Sides

Social and environmental education are two sides of a coin. Each has similar student-centred goals that see an understanding of society or the environment and one's place within it as a medium for achieving some of the long term goals of education. The similarities between the two have not been recognised nearly as much as they could have been, though Disinger (1982) among others has recognized international, global, futures, population and values education (all long established themes in social education) as imperatives in environmental education. Both social and environmental education seek to help young people identify, understand and desire to resolve the problems that confront humanity.

The Future: A Very Short Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Gidley
Keyword(s):  
Exciting Field ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Future ◽  
Global Futures

Humans have always been driven by both a fear of the unknown and a curiosity to know. They have prophesied, foretold, predicted, and tried to control the future. The Future: A Very Short Introduction considers some of our most burning questions: What is ‘the future’? Is there only one future or are there many possible futures? It introduces the exciting field of future studies, spanning social, cultural, and environmental innovations, as well as technological advances. It asks if the future can ever be truly predicted or if we create our own futures by our thoughts, feelings, and actions. The book concludes by exploring the grand global futures challenges.

From geopolitics to geotechnics: global futures in the shadow of automation, cunning machines, and human speciation

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 432-455
Author(s):  
Jairus Grove
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
General Sense ◽  
The Third ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Alternative Future ◽  
Human Capability ◽  
To Come ◽  
Global Futures

This exploration provides an alternative future to that offered in the discussions surrounding what is often referred to by the ‘fourth industrial revolution’ or the ‘third offset’. I argue that even modest projections of existing trends have the capability of altering the grammar or ecology of geopolitics as well as the drivers for competition and catastrophe. Such changes are more significant than questions of how this or that actor might be different or which great powers may shape the international order in a hundred years. The essay seeks to understand what disruptive changes in non-human capability might mean for the shape of a potential geopolitics to come. In a more general sense, I want to think about how violence will be distributed differently. Will there be new sources and even kinds of competition unique to a global system populated and in some cases, structured by cunning machines – some mechanical, others digital – and what are the implications for how we imagine international relations?

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