Journal articles: 'Human futures'

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Schimmel, Noam. "Human rights futures." International Affairs 95, no. 5 (September 1, 2019): 1171–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiz161.

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Kannabiran, Gopinaath. "Queerious futures." Interactions 28, no. 3 (May 2021): 22–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3460347.

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Jasentuliyana, N., and Kiran Karnik. "Space futures and human security." Space Policy 13, no. 3 (August 1997): 257–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0265-9646(97)00019-2.

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O’Neill, Onora. "Historical trends and human futures." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 39, no. 4 (December 2008): 529–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2008.09.005.

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Nandy, Ashis. "Futures studies: pluralizing human destiny." Futures 25, no. 4 (May 1993): 464–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0016-3287(93)90009-i.

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COLE, L. "Bio-futures and human values." Journal of Social and Biological Systems 14, no. 1 (1991): 79–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0140-1750(91)90027-n.

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Kozubaev, Sandjar. "Futures as design." Interactions 25, no. 2 (February 23, 2018): 46–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3178554.

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Winchester, Woodrow W. "REALizing our messy futures." Interactions 17, no. 6 (November 2010): 14–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1865245.1865249.

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George, Siby K. "Heidegger, Technology, and Biohistorical Human Futures." Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 25, no. 2 (2021): 233–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/techne2021427139.

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Posthumanist readings of the Heidegger corpus often conclude that the transformed future human essence must either be the ecoromanticist ideal of the attuned dweller or the technoprogressivist ideal of the technicized animal. Such inferences are untenable according to the logic of the text, where human essence is envisaged as radically unfixed and open, and humans themselves as meaningful contributors to their future essence. In this way, the transformation of human essence can become a genuinely ethicopolitical question, rather than an ontologically predetermined one. An ontologically open posthumanist and biohistorical reading of the Heidegger corpus concerning the human future is possible if focus is placed on the logic of the text itself rather than authorial intentions.

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Mbembe, Achille. "Futures of Life and Futures of Reason." Public Culture 33, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 11–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8742136.

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Abstract As the new century unfolds, humans are increasingly surrounded by multiple and expanding wave fronts of calculation. What remains of the human subject in an age when instrumental reason is carried out by and through information machines and technologies of calculation? Who will set the boundary that distinguishes between the calculable and the incalculable? In the double-edged conditions of our times, what will it take to turn instruments of calculation into instruments of liberation?

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Barbosa, Simone, and Gilbert Cockton. "Designing strategies, futures, and participation." Interactions 25, no. 2 (February 23, 2018): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3186197.

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Dolejšová, Markéta, Hilary Davis, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, and Danielle Wilde. "Feeding the futures of human-food interaction." Interactions 27, no. 5 (September 2020): 34–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3414471.

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&NA;, &NA;. "Science and the Unborn: Choosing Human Futures." Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 177, no. 7 (July 1989): 441. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00005053-198907000-00016.

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Newell, Terry. "The futures of government human resource development." International Journal of Public Administration 19, no. 5 (January 1996): 599–622. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01900699608525112.

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Hodgson, Jane E. "Science and the Unborn: Choosing Human Futures." JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 261, no. 12 (March 24, 1989): 1808. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1989.03420120150043.

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Preissl, Brigitte, Ulrich Stumpf, and Gary Madden. "Mobile futures." Telecommunications Policy 30, no. 7 (August 2006): 347–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2006.05.001.

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Wright, Jason T., and Michael P. Oman-Reagan. "Visions of human futures in space and SETI." International Journal of Astrobiology 17, no. 2 (August 16, 2017): 177–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1473550417000222.

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AbstractWe discuss how visions for the futures of humanity in space and SETI are intertwined, and are shaped by prior work in the fields and by science fiction. This appears in the language used in the fields, and in the sometimes implicit assumptions made in discussions of them. We give examples from articulations of the so-called Fermi Paradox, discussions of the settlement of the Solar System (in the near future) and the Galaxy (in the far future), and METI. We argue that science fiction, especially the campy variety, is a significant contributor to the ‘giggle factor’ that hinders serious discussion and funding for SETI and Solar System settlement projects. We argue that humanity's long-term future in space will be shaped by our short-term visions for who goes there and how. Because of the way they entered the fields, we recommend avoiding the term ‘colony’ and its cognates when discussing the settlement of space, as well as other terms with similar pedigrees. We offer examples of science fiction and other writing that broaden and challenge our visions of human futures in space and SETI. In an appendix, we use an analogy with the well-funded and relatively uncontroversial searches for the dark matter particle to argue that SETI's lack of funding in the national science portfolio is primarily a problem of perception, not inherent merit.

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Tanenbaum, Theresa Jean, Marcel Pufal, and Karen Tanenbaum. "Furious futures and apocalyptic design fictions." Interactions 24, no. 1 (December 22, 2016): 64–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3022123.

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Naimou, Angela. "Moving Futures." American Literary History 31, no. 3 (2019): 502–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajz027.

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AbstractThis essay-review discusses four books that link refugee migration and border politics to ideas of time. It reads Asfa-Wossen Asserate’s African Exodus (2018), Stephanie Li’s Pan-African American Literature (2018), Aimee Bahng’s Migrant Futures (2018), and Long T. Bui’s Returns of War (2018) as books with distinct objects of analysis, from refugee memory of the US war in Vietnam, to US literary and cultural speculative fictions, to African immigrant writers in the US, to the current so-called African migrant crisis as it affects Europe. It also considers the multiple disciplinary and methodological commitments of these books, as they participate in discussions on migration in such areas as ethnic studies, postcolonial studies, Asian American studies, critical refugee studies, scholarship on literature of African diasporas, economics, history, memory, and human rights. This essay-review considers the gains or limitations of such approaches to the study of migration in contemporary literature and/or culture.

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Stauber, Karl N. "The futures of agriculture." American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 9, no. 1-2 (June 1994): 9–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s088918930000549x.

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AbstractOne widely held view of the future of American agriculture is that it will continue the current trend toward fewer but larger farms, greater centralization and vertical integration, and declining rural populations. If so, the research, teaching and extension institutions created to serve agriculture will not survive unless they can adapt to changing political and demographic conditions, especially the domination of the suburbs. This will require these institutions to set new goals for themselves. Their historic pursuit of increased technical efficiency already has been so successful that it has sharply reduced the farm population, which has been their main base of public support. Suburban America, in contrast, will demand an agriculture that is more in harmony with nature. Alternative notions of the Common Good can provide the philosophical basis for this shift Historically, the economic system, including agriculture, has regarded nature as something to be used to advance human well-being. In this view (which could be called “Liberal” in the 19th century sense of the term), the reason to protect nature is to insure that it can continue to serve human needs. In contrast, the “Ecocentric” view of the Common Good emphasizes that humans are part of an ecological community, and that we must optimize the balance between human needs and the health of the ecosystem.

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Lightfoot, Geoff, and Simon Lilley. "Fixina Futures?" Emergence 1, no. 3 (September 1999): 37–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327000em0103_4.

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Eckhardt, Anne. "Stress factor human activities." Safety of Nuclear Waste Disposal 1 (November 10, 2021): 285–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/sand-1-285-2021.

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Abstract. Activities of future humans can influence the safety of a closed repository. The German safety requirements for a final repository for high-level radioactive waste (EndlSiAnfV, 2020) therefore stipulate that developments induced by future human activities which may become relevant for the safety of the repository system must be taken into account when optimising the repository system and verifying its robustness. The focus here is on inadvertent human intrusion into the repository. Developments that can be induced by present human activities serve as reference developments. Dealing with future human activities is challenging. The uncertainties about anthropogenic developments taking place in the 1 million-year assessment period are overwhelming and can hardly be reduced. Moreover, knowledge about human activities in the future cannot be empirically verified, so that it becomes difficult to differentiate between knowledge and mere opinion (Grunwald, 2007, p. 57). Developments in future human activities are the subject of futures research. In the interdisciplinary experiment “Stress factor human activities”, it was therefore investigated whether findings can be derived from futurology sources that might be useful for optimising the repository system and verifying its robustness. Based on potential impacts on the sealed repository, drivers and trends, future narratives, findings and ideas from technical literature and science fiction as well as experiences in the field of radioactive waste management, 25 scenarios of future human activities that may influence the safety of a repository were derived. The spectrum of scenarios ranges from “drift into failure” in uses of the geological subsurface to attacks targeting the repository. It includes biological, chemical and physical impacts on the repository. In addition to direct impacts, those that occur slowly and possibly unnoticed are also addressed. From today's point of view, climate change and the endeavour to open up new reserves of raw materials and energy are important drivers. The distinction between intended and unintended activities is often not clear-cut. The experiment confirms that scenario development is ridden with prerequisites and is necessarily interdisciplinary. Different methodological approaches have to be combined, prerequisites and assumptions have to be clearly identified. Due to the limited time horizon of futures research, it is necessary to continually adapt and update scenarios of future human activities in the sense of a “learning process” with new findings and developments. Although many details remain speculative, scenarios provide a differentiated picture of human activities that may influence the safety of the final repository from the current perspective. Patterns are emerging that indicate how human activities could be incorporated into the optimisation of a repository and the verification of its robustness. The results of the interdisciplinary study “Stress factor human activities” therefore lead to the conclusion that futures research can contribute to optimising the long-term safety of a final repository (Eckhardt, 2021).

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Camrass, Kimberly. "Regenerative futures." foresight 22, no. 4 (July 27, 2020): 401–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/fs-08-2019-0079.

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Purpose This paper aims to investigate how futures concepts may further existing regenerative sustainability thinking. Design/methodology/approach This paper reviews existing regenerative fields, including regenerative design, regenerative development and regenerative sustainability as alternatives to conventional sustainability practice. It considers futures concepts that may deepen regenerative thinking and practice to develop a regenerative futures conceptual model. Findings This paper demonstrates how regenerative fields and futures studies have the capacity to reciprocally inform one another and builds upon this relationship through the development of a regenerative futures conceptual model. Originality/value This paper makes a number of theoretical contributions. First, it demonstrates how regenerative fields and futures thinking may reciprocally inform one another and, subsequently, enrich regenerative practice. Second, by drawing from futures thinking, it questions and ultimately lengthens notions of reality and time from a regenerative perspective. Finally, through the proposal of a regenerative futures conceptual model, it offers an alternative lens to analyse human behaviours and their associated impacts. In this way, it introduces a theoretical model that is focused on deep individual and collective transformation and a starting point for future research and refinement.

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O’Donnell, Karen. "The theologian as dreamer: on theological imagination and human enhancement." Theology 124, no. 5 (September 2021): 341–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0040571x211043172.

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This article reflects on the theologian as dreamer in the context of human enhancement, artificial intelligence and digital technology. In positioning the theologian as the dreamer of possible futures, I argue that it is the responsibility of the theologian to engage in exploration of such an imagined future in our service to the public, both in the ecclesial community and beyond. This theological endeavour is both practical (in that it begins with lived experience) and constructive (it seeks to construct theology that responds to the needs of a rapidly changing society). I offer two examples of imagined futures as case studies of this mode of theology in practice, before considering potential difficulties in such a theological mode. Finally, I offer a mandate for the theologian as dreamer of distant futures; the theologian as one with responsibility to imagine the impossible and reflect on its meaning and impact on humanity.

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oja, Jari Kaivo, Steffen Roth, and Leo Westerlund. "Futures of robotics. Human work in digital transformation." International Journal of Technology Management 73, no. 4 (2017): 176. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijtm.2017.083074.

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Roth, Steffen, Leo Westerlund, and Jari Kaivo oja. "Futures of robotics. Human work in digital transformation." International Journal of Technology Management 73, no. 4 (2017): 176. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijtm.2017.10004003.

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Thorne, Sally, Valerie Oglov, Elizabeth-Anne Armstrong, and T. Gregory Hislop. "Prognosticating futures and the human experience of hope." Palliative and Supportive Care 5, no. 3 (September 2007): 227–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1478951507000399.

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Objectives: Communication between health care providers and patients with cancer and other chronic diseases typically references probabilities that certain future events will or will not occur. Beyond the context of diagnostic encounters and the transmission of “bad news,” such “prognostic” communications take place in various forms throughout the illness trajectory. It is well known that such information transmitted badly can have devastating psychosocial consequences for patients and their families and, conversely, that difficult information exchanged with sensitivity can lend tremendous support. This study aimed to extend our understanding of how such communications are received and interpreted by patients, so that we might optimally apply what we know about general principles of effective communication within the particularly challenging context of predicting futures.Methods: We conducted a combined secondary analysis of two prior qualitative studies into patient perceptions of helpful and unhelpful health care communication with 200 cancer patients and 30 persons with chronic illness. These data sets offered a rich resource for comparing perceptions across a range of contextual variables, and secondary analysis focused on future-oriented interactions, including both prognostication and prediction.Results: The accounts of patients with cancer and chronic illness reveal various ways in which health care communications involving future projections interact with their human experience of hope, powerfully shaping their capacity to make sense of and live with serious illness. They include a synthesis of what patients recommend health care professionals know and understand about this challenging dynamic.Significance of results: The findings of this study offer a distinct angle of vision onto the various communications that involve future predictions, illuminating a patient perspective with the potential to inform health care communication approaches that are both informative and therapeutic. As such, the study supports a dynamic understanding of the tenuous balance between hope and honesty in the clinical encounter.

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Lake, P. S., and Nick R. Bond. "Australian futures: Freshwater ecosystems and human water usage." Futures 39, no. 2-3 (March 2007): 288–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2006.01.010.

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Francisco Salazar, Juan. "Antarctic futures: human engagement with the Antarctic environment." Polar Journal 4, no. 2 (July 3, 2014): 414–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2154896x.2014.960679.

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O'MALLEY, PHIL. "FUTURES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. Edited by Pip Forer." New Zealand Journal of Geography 69, no. 1 (May 15, 2008): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0028-8292.1980.tb00137.x.

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Marien, Michael. "The fragmented futures of human rights and democracy." Futures 28, no. 1 (February 1996): 51–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0016-3287(95)00075-5.

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Sherbert, Michael G. "Perfecting Human Futures: Transhuman Visions and Technological Imaginations." NanoEthics 10, no. 2 (May 4, 2016): 161–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11569-016-0260-7.

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McAdams, Dan P. "Alternative Futures for the Study of Human Individuality." Journal of Research in Personality 30, no. 3 (September 1996): 374–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jrpe.1996.0026.

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Arbaugh, J. Ben. "Introduction: Foundations and Futures." Academy of Management Learning & Education 7, no. 4 (December 2008): 587. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amle.2008.35882198.

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Beatty, Joy E. "For which future? Exploring the implicit futures of service‐learning." International Journal of Organizational Analysis 18, no. 2 (May 25, 2010): 181–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/19348831011046254.

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Langdon, Patrick, John Clarkson, and Peter Robinson. "Designing inclusive futures." Universal Access in the Information Society 9, no. 3 (November 11, 2009): 191–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10209-009-0167-y.

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Schulte, Britta, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, Rens Brankaert, and Kellie Morrissey. "Utopian futures for sexuality, aging, and design." Interactions 28, no. 3 (May 2021): 6–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3460204.

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The Interactions website (interactions.acm.org) hosts a stable of bloggers who share insights and observations on HCI, often challenging current practices. Each issue we'll publish selected posts from some of the leading and emerging voices in the field.

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Moore, Karenza, Marie Griffiths, Helen Richardson, and Alison Adam. "Gendered Futures? Women, the ICT Workplace and Stories of the Future." Gender, Work & Organization 15, no. 5 (September 2008): 523–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0432.2008.00416.x.

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Thompson, Neil Aaron, and Orla Byrne. "Imagining Futures: Theorizing the Practical Knowledge of Future-making." Organization Studies 43, no. 2 (November 1, 2021): 247–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01708406211053222.

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The study of future-making – how practitioners make and enact imagined futures – has become a cornerstone for understanding the temporal dynamics of organization, strategy and entrepreneurship. This article investigates the texture of practical knowledge that enables entrepreneuring practitioners to jointly address the challenges inherent to future-making. We conduct a video ethnography of a business modelling programme producing 79 hours of audio-visual recordings. Using multimodal conversation analysis, we unpack different forms of practical knowledge that simultaneously binds practitioners in a web of mutual expectations and establishes modes of thinking and acting for the creation of imagined futures. This contributes to existing studies by demonstrating that the discursive, embodied and material dimensions of future-making are fundamentally entangled within textures of practical knowledge. Consequently, we shift the mode of theorizing towards non-representationalism, which opens up new frontiers for future research to observe, participate and reflect with practitioners on the textures of practical knowledge constitutive of future-making in different circumstances and contexts.

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Drcar, Stephanie, and Elliott Ingersoll. " Unique Histories and Unified Futures: Future Trends for Human Service Graduates Entering Psychotherapy Fields." Journal of Human Services 40, no. 1 (March 2021): 123–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.52678/2021.9.

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Undergraduate Human Services (HMSV) students are often interested in graduate education and might consider a career as a psychotherapist. The psychotherapy disciplines are primarily composed of psychology, social work, counseling, and addiction counseling, each of which have a unique history regarding their development and approach to clinical work. HMSV graduates aspiring to psychotherapy training need an understanding of the trends influencing the fields of psychotherapy across disciplines. This article presents an overview of trends and factors to prepare the next generation of psychotherapists to work as a unified collective to address societal and individual challenges.

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Kapron, Benjamin J. "Storying Futures of the Always-Already Extinct." UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies 21 (October 18, 2022): 26–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/40296.

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This paper contends that anthropogenic mass extinction cannot be overcome via discourses that only humans can prevent extinctions: such discourses uphold problematic assumptions of human exceptionalism. This paper takes up Gerald Vizenor’s concept of survivance, which upholds Indigenous futures and speaks of Indigenous peoples’ continuous agential survival against settler colonialism, to challenge human exceptionalism, assert animal agency, and envision transformative futures where all animals―human and nonhuman―might survive with ethics and justice.

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Wood, John. "Art school futures." Journal of Writing in Creative Practice 14, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 13–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jwcp_00011_1.

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The late Sir Ken Robinson attracted great interest for noting the education system’s lack of support for imaginative and creative skills. This omission has important ramifications throughout society as a whole, especially given the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, not to mention environmental emergencies that threaten our very survival as a species. Although our predicament calls for a co-creative and transformative response, this amounts to a paradigm change that is beyond the capacity of our current systems of governance. The article therefore calls for a review of education policy that would include some deep reflections on the ecological purpose of learning. It suggests that, in order to augment the scholastic and analytical traditions underpinning the modern university, policy-makers should invest in the modernization and development of the traditional art school. This should cater for a much larger spectrum of human needs and capabilities. These might support ethical, co-creative thinking at all levels, including feeling, acting and experiencing at many simultaneous levels, including head, heart, hand and what the article calls ‘humour’.

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Levy, Barry S., and Tony McMichael. "Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease: Past Patterns, Uncertain Futures." Journal of Public Health Policy 24, no. 2 (2003): 212. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3343514.

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Dahmen, Stephan. "Constructing the “Competent” Pupil: Optimizing Human Futures Through Testing?" Social Inclusion 9, no. 3 (September 16, 2021): 347–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v9i3.4354.

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In the last decade, the German transition system has witnessed the large‐scale introduction of so‐called “analysis of potentials” (<em>Potenzialanalysen</em>) in secondary compulsory schooling. In most German Länder, 8th graders must participate in a two‐day assessment center which combines psychometric testing with observations of their social and professional competencies in pre‐specified tasks. The programmatic aim of these assessments is to “introduce pupils early to choosing a job” (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung [BMBF], 2017, p. 2) as well as to enhance the propensity of pupils to “take responsibility for their own future” (BMBF, 2017, p. 9). In the context of the German school‐to‐work system, the introduction of these new forms of diagnostics bear witness to a new preventive political rationality that aims at reducing the entry age into upper secondary education, reduce the recourse to so‐called “transition measures” and optimizing transitions into an apprenticeship market that is characterized by structural inequalities and “mismatch” between pupils’ job aspirations and the offers in apprenticeship places. However, little is known on the role of competency testing devices for the construction of further trajectories and aspirations and their role in the reproduction of inequalities in transitions from school to work. Based on an in‐depth analysis of policy documents and competency profiles (the documents handed out to the pupils after undergoing testing), the article reconstructs the political rationale for the introduction of the so‐called <em>Potenzialanalysen</em>. Based on a Foucauldian framework, we show how pupils are constructed as “competent” subjects. We show that competency assessments are part and parcel of a political rationality that aims at the promotion of a specific (future‐oriented, optimized, self‐regulated) relation to one’s own biographical future on the side of the pupils. Our results demonstrate that competency profiles construct the process of choosing a job as an individualized project of the self and that they invisibilize structural barriers and power relations. In doing so, competency assessments potentially contribute to the reproduction of inequalities in post‐secondary education through delegating “cooling out” processes from institutional gatekeepers to the interiority of persons.

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Nunn, Patrick D., Joeli Veitayaki, Vina Ram-Bidesi, and Aliti Vunisea. "Coastal issues for oceanic islands: implications for human futures." Natural Resources Forum 23, no. 3 (August 1999): 195–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-8947.1999.tb00909.x.

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Last, John M. "Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease: Past Patterns, Uncertain Futures." American Journal of Epidemiology 155, no. 1 (January 1, 2002): 101–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aje/155.1.101-a.

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Lovering, Rob. "Futures of Value and the Destruction of Human Embryos." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 39, no. 3 (September 2009): 463–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cjp.0.0058.

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Many people are strongly opposed to the intentional destruction of human embryos, whether it be for purposes scientific, reproductive, or other. And it is not uncommon for such people to argue against the destruction of human embryos by invoking the claim that the destruction of human embryos is morally on par with killing the following humans: (A) the standard infant, (B) the suicidal teenager, (C) the temporarily comatose individual, and (D) the standard adult. I argue here that this claim is false and do so as follows. First, I provide an account of the prima facie wrongness of killing individuals (A) – (D). Briefly, I contend that individuals (A) – (D) have a certain property in common, that of having a future of value. An individual who has a future of value has the potential to (i) value goods of consciousness when he will (or would) experience them and (ii) do so as a psychologically continuous individual.

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Heise, Ursula K. "The Environmental Humanities and the Futures of the Human." New German Critique 43, no. 2 128 (August 2016): 21–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0094033x-3511847.

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Zierler, Sally. "Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease: Past Patterns, Uncertain Futures." Epidemiology 13, no. 4 (July 2002): 489–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00001648-200207000-00020.

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Pearce, Neil. "Human frontiers, environments and disease. Past patterns uncertain futures." International Journal of Epidemiology 30, no. 6 (December 2001): 1502–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/30.6.1502-a.

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