Religious Studies: Back to the Future : A Response to Markus Davidsen

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-266
Author(s):  
Eric Venbrux
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
The Future

Abstract The author appreciates Davidsen’s concern with the future of Religious Studies, but thinks that its strength lies in being an interdisciplinary field of study. The field has the potential to bring together scholars involved in the study of religion and demonstrate its relevance by generating insights into complex, relevant and pressing problems.

scholarly journals Hope against hope: COVID-19 and the space for political imagination

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110045
Author(s):  
Jonathan Gross
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Political Imagination ◽  
Futures Studies ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
Devised Theatre ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
The Future

COVID-19 has loosened neoliberalism’s hegemonic grip on the future. Amid the enormous suffering experienced internationally, there is much discussion of how to ‘Build Back Better’, and hope for a more caring, just and sustainable world. But competing futures are being imagined and planned. Hope is never politically neutral, and the content of collective hope is a key site of political struggle. This is partly a question of space: who has the literal and discursive space in which to develop visions of the future? The following article considers the role that cultural studies can play in this struggle. ‘Conjunctural analysis’ has a key task, making visible the competing futures contained within the present. But cultural studies should go further: combining conjunctural analysis with methods drawn from a range of scholarly and activist traditions – including critical pedagogy, devised theatre and the interdisciplinary field of futures studies – that deliberately create spaces for imagining new futures.

Jacques Laforest. Introduction à la gérontologie. Croissance et déclin. Montréal: Hurtubise HMH, 1989, pp. 166.

1993 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-103
Author(s):  
Nicole Boucher
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Final Stage ◽  
Developmental Perspective ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Existential Crisis

ABSTRACTJacques Laforest provides an introduction to gerontology viewed as an interdisciplinary field of study and reflection on old age. Old age is defined from a developmental perspective as two opposite yet complementary processes: those of decline and growth. The final stage of life is marked by an existential crisis of one's identity, autonomy and belonging. Researchers and specialists from all disciplines are invited to contribute towards an understanding and a resolution of this crisis. The purpose of this publication is to initiate the process of integrating knowledge and reflections on gerontology. This goal is achieved.

The Future: RAND, Brand and Dangerous to Know

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Beck
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Rand Corporation ◽  
Global Business ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Futures Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Whole Earth Catalog

The interdisciplinary field of futures research is now at the heart of policy-making and business strategy, but the serious study of the future has its roots in Cold War strategy, led by Hermann Kahn at the RAND Corporation and the Hudson Institute. The migration of futures research into business was accompanied by a burgeoning countercultural futurism, most vividly embodied in Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog. The founding of the Global Business Network in 1987 brought together many of the key players from business futurism and the avant-garde wing of futures studies, forging a high-powered consultancy that went on to provide services for multi-national corporations and government agencies. As pressing contemporary issues such as global security and climate change prompt futures researchers to develop scenarios intended to deal with potentially extinction-level catastrophes, can an interrogation of the recent history of the future contribute to the release of a critical engagement with the future that is not beholden to the lockdown of its Cold War legacy?

American Studies

2019 ◽  
pp. 165-181
Author(s):  
Amy Rubens
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Experience ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
National Character ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Individual

American Studies is an interdisciplinary field that has ties to literary studies and other disciplines, notably history, anthropology, sociology, and religious studies. Health humanists use American Studies methods to explore how representations of illness, health, and healthcare construct and are constructed by notions of nation, national character, and citizenship, not only as they relate to the US nation-state, but also to other conceptions of America. For this reason, health humanist projects guided by American Studies can identify the processes through which embodied selves exert or are subject to power. While American Studies methods encourage intervention in matters of social injustice, they also may reduce the individual, subjective experience of embodiment to a means to an interpretive end.

Towards a futurist cultural studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devon Powers
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
The Future

Cultural studies is a future-oriented discipline, but it at best maintains tangential connections to futurism, a field of study devoted to the systematic study of the future. Why? This essay endeavors to answer that question. It explores how cultural studies has conceptualized ‘the future’ and identifies some of the limits of those conceptions. The article then speculates on what futurism and cultural studies might gain from more robust and purposeful integration.

scholarly journals La Orden de Calatrava en la Baja Edad Media (1350-1500): repaso historiográfico = The Military Order of Calatrava in the Late Middle Ages (1350-1500): Review of Scholarship

2018 ◽  
pp. 575
Author(s):  
Milagros Plaza Pedroche
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Military

En el presente artículo se concede atención al desarrollo de la producción historiográfica referente a la Orden de Calatrava en el ámbito castellanoleonés y en el periodo comprendido entre 1350 y 1500. En él se realiza un balance que permite conocer los vacíos informativos que todavía perviven dentro de este campo y las líneas de investigación que de cara al futuro se abren a los medievalistas. The present study focuses on the developments of the scholarship on the Military Order of Calatrava in the kingdom of Castile and Leon in the period between 1350 and 1500. It provides an assessment of current research which will identify the gaps of information that still persist within this field of study and the research strategies that these may provide to medievalists in the future.

Australian Internet Histories, Past, Present and Future: An Afterword

2012 ◽  
Vol 143 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-165
Author(s):  
Niels Brügger
Keyword(s):  
International Research ◽  
Research Infrastructure ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Internet Studies ◽  
Present Issue ◽  
The Future ◽  
Digital Research

This Afterword compares the articles in this issue of MIA to the ‘first wave’ of Australian internet historiography, a field of study established by Australian internet scholars around 2000. After identifying what is new in the present issue, I outline four paths that may be worth considering in the future: constituting the field based on shared theoretical and methodological reflections; using archived web material to a larger extent; participating in the shaping of a digital research infrastructure for internet studies; and increasing international research relations.

The Future of Religious Studies in India

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clemens Cavallin ◽  
Åke Sander ◽  
Sudha Sitharaman
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
The Future
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