There has always been a critical, emancipatory tradition within futures studies. Although
those voices can still be heard, there has been a growing tendency for futures studies to be …

This article examines the role of plausibility in the construction of futures, taking a critical
constructionist perspective. Plausibility builds on the intersubjectively constructed coherence …

This article presents the almost century-long history of the development of futures studies in
a comprehensive review. Futures studies, rooted in sociology and policy sciences, had …

Futures studies is the systematic study of possible, probable and preferable futures including
the worldviews and myths that underlie each future. In the last fifty or so years, the study of …

Futures practice has been dominated by forecasting and scenarios-based approaches.
More recently we have seen the emergence of a social construction phase and another …

This article puts forward the proposition that the confluence of action research and futures
studies can be seen across a number of domains: political, organisational, grassroots …

Futures studies is the systematic study of possible, probable and preferable futures including
the worldviews and myths that underlie each future. Futures studies has moved from …

The main purpose of this paper is to present a three-phase periodization of modern Western
futures studies to construct historical classification. In order to reach this goal, the following …

Purpose–This paper aims to draw on a global scan of futures literature undertaken for the
State of Play in the Futures Field (SOPIFF) project to investigate the contribution of futures …

Sociologists and futurists have come to see that 'fabrications' of the future as entirely open to
being remade in the present have become more difficult to sustain in a complex and …