The problem of the present in West Africa: Introducing a conceptual framework
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DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2021.102815
Abstract: Abstract The practice of anticipation and futures literacy in postcolonial West Africa requires a conceptual framework capable of capturing and articulating recurrent phenomena from the past in the region’s postcolonial present-present. For this purpose, this… read more here.
Keywords: past futures; west africa; west; conceptual framework ... See more keywords
The past futures of techno-scientific promises
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DOI: 10.1093/scipol/scab054
Abstract: Previous studies have shown that techno-scientific promises play key roles in the process of emergence of new technologies. The role of promises in the emergence of old technologies when they were young has, however, been… read more here.
Keywords: futures techno; techno scientific; past futures; scientific promises ... See more keywords
Futures past and futures present: Geopolitical thought and intellectual history
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DOI: 10.1177/20438206231171213
Abstract: Renewed efforts to write geography's intellectual histories hold promise for reimagining our hereafter. True for the discipline as a whole, this holds particularly true for geopolitics. Beyond restating the infamy of some figures in this… read more here.
Keywords: geography; futures past; present geopolitical; futures present ... See more keywords