The practice of envisioning the future has deep roots in the past. Across the continent of
Africa, there are traditions of oral storytelling, griots, folklore, and indigenous speculation that …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to nurture reflections on the colonization of the future in
the present with a particular focus on Africa. This paper aims at exploring how participatory …

Storylistening makes the case for the urgent need to take stories seriously in order to
improve public reasoning. Dillon and Craig provide a theory and practice for gathering …

In this editorial we explore how the concept of the city region has evolved and what
questions this raises for the role of urban futures, including visioning and foresight. The …

Education and futures are intimately if ambiguously and contentiously entangled. In western
traditions in particular, from Aristotle's 'give me the child and I will give you the man'onwards …

In her 1984 breakthrough essay From Margin to Centre, bell hooks names what would later
be coined by American scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw as 'intersectionality'. She proposes a …

As a class of professionals, South African chartered accountants [CAs (SA)] wield
considerable influence in the South African business context. A 2018 study profiling chief …

Many strategies evaluators engage with seek to influence change in complex, dynamic
environments. This is true of programmatic work, where context can affect implementation …

Given that a handbook is meant to serve as a type of reference work to a particular subject,
the main aim of this chapter is to provide readers with a reference to futures studies methods …

Purpose This paper aims to present the case for critical realism (CR) as a framework in
steering the anticipatory and participatory activities an appropriate analysis of complex …