Shaping Tomorrow's World tells the crucial story of how futures studies developed in West Germany, Europe, the US and within global futures networks from the 1940s to the 1980s. It charts the emergence of different approaches and thought styles within the field ranging from Cold War defense intellectuals such as Herman Kahn to critical peace activists like Robert Jungk. Engaging with the challenges of the looming nuclear war, the changing phases of the Cold War, '1968', and the growing importance of both the Global South and environmentalism, this book argues that futures scholars actively contributed to these processes of change. This multiple award-winning study combines national and transnational perspectives to present a unique history of envisioning, forecasting, and shaping the future.
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Shaping Tomorrow's World
A Twentieth-Century History of West German, Cold War, and Global Futures Studies
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Shaping Tomorrow's World
A Twentieth-Century History of West German, Cold War, and Global Futures Studies
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Roots in the Early Twentieth Century
- Chapter 2. Cold War Science
- Chapter 3. Conceptualizing Futures Studies: Key Figures and Thought Styles
- Chapter 4. Constructing Futurology? The Emerging Futures Field and the Public Sphere
- Chapter 5. Conflicting Futures: Setting Up West German Futures Studies Organizations
- Chapter 6. Building Bridges: Mankind 2000 and the Founding of the World Future(s) Studies Federation
- Chapter 7. Controlling the World’s Future: The Early History of the Club of Rome
- Chapter 8. The Environmental Turn in Futures Studies: The Debate about The Limits to Growth, 1972–73
- Chapter 9. Glocalization and a Subjective Turn: Futures Studies in the 1970s
- Chapter 10. Global Solidarity versus Economic Competitiveness: The Futures Field from the 1970s Onward
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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