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Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · 5d

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Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · 5d

a fusion of #ancestral and contemporary worlds? Explore these questions using #futuresmethods such as #signalscanning, #ThreeHorizons, #CausalLayeredAnalysis, and the formulation of thought-provoking #scenarios to investigate diverse #futures possibilities for coca. #Futuresstudies #scenarioanalysis

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Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · 5d

actively redefining the coca leaf as #sacred and advocating for change? Find out in this insightful article by Mejía Zapata and Giselly Andrea. Could coca serve as the catalyst propelling #indigenous and #LatinAmerican #futuresthinking forward? Might the #future of coca be the first step towards

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Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · 5d

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... Can Western #narratives that have long reduced the multifaceted #identity #cocaine by opened up again? Can the #transformative movement underway within Andean and #Amazon #indigenouscommunities, #rural groups, urban #activists, #academics, #artists, and #politicians

Mama Coca Chronicles: Navigating Ancestral Heritage and Future Narratives * Journal of Futures Studies

Article Mejía Zapata, Giselly Andrea Liana Collective, New York, USA Abstract The coca plant’s Western narrative has long reduced her multifaceted identity to a single term, “cocaine.” However, a tran...

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Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · 14d

transformation and embracing a #criticalrealism approach guided by responsible processes, the journey to #empower #youthfutures collectives in becoming good ancestors takes a significant step forward. #Futuresliteracy #futures @itsanisah.bsky.social @sohailfutures.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social

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Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · 14d

questions with Felipe Bosch and Daouia Chalali! Seeing the #emergence of this critical juncture at the core of #intergenerational fairness, explore how barriers in #imagination can be overcome by #envisioning and mobilizing towards new paths of #transformation. By charting the pathways for

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Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · 14d

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... How can #futuresstudies and #futuresmethods and practices serve as guides for #youth in their quest to become “good ancestors"? Can #youthengagement in decision-making and the promotion of #futuregenerations, converge to create a pivotal moment? Come explore these

Intergenerational Fairness: What Should Our Futures Methods and Practices Look Like? * Journal of Futures Studies

Article Felipe Bosch1, Daouia Chalali2* 1Executive Director, Intergenerational Centre for Global Action, Brussels, Belgium 2Founding Member, Intergenerational Centre for Global Action, Lyon, France Ab...

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Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · Sep 30

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Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · Sep 30

the intention of unveiling the intrinsic #possibilities and relations among them. See how different outcomes involving knowledge hierarchy and #uncertainty and multiple #scenarios are presented. #futuresstudies #futuresliteracy @rem59.bsky.social @sohailfutures.bsky.social @ivanafutures.bsky.social

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Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · Sep 30

Find out in this first article from the new issue of Journal of Futures Studies, by Aina García Mestre! Explore the changes and crisis in #knowledgeproduction from a classical to a postnormal perspective. See how the #ThreeTomorrows and three different #futures #scenarioanalysis are applied with

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Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · Sep 30

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... What are the potential #Sociopolitical Impacts of #AI and #Knowledge #Hierarchies? Does the rise of #artificialintelligence create new #uncertainties about the #democratization of knowledge which, along with #globalization alters and shapes a new #postnormal realities?

On the Crisis and Democratization of Knowledge – The Sociopolitical Impact of AI and Knowledge Hierarchy * Journal of Futures Studies

Article Aina García Mestre Faculty of Communications and International Relations, Blanquerna Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain Abstract The advent of digital technologies has led to a major tra...

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Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · Sep 20

#preferredfutures #futuresstudies #futuresliteracy @sohailfutures.bsky.social @itsanisah.bsky.social @ivanafutures.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social

Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · Sep 20

affirming? Ruins such as #gendernorms and #political maps, #economics and #colonial regimes? Join Marcus Bussey in his this amazing essay as he seeks to map, excavate, reconfigure, and #reimagine the ruins around us utilizing #anticipatory #foresight as the compass guiding us towards

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Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · Sep 20

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-2... How do we navigate the ruins left all around us in the used #futures that constrain our concepts of what's possible? Do the structures that we experience constrain and wound us, just as much as they constitute something we perceive as stable, secure and #identity

Navigating the Ruins of the Future * Journal of Futures Studies

The Ruins of the Future are all around us. We usually experience these as oppressive and threatening. This paper argues that we can reframe this experience and that it is the role of the Futurist to a...

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Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · Sep 10

liminality as a relevant conceptual framework? #Futuresdesign #futuresliteracy #humanaicollaboration @sohailfutures.bsky.social @ivanafutures.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social @itsanisah.bsky.social

Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · Sep 10

implicitly #creative capacities in unexpected ways that are potentially valuable to foresight and #futuresstudies. Could #AI and especially Generative AI and LLMs have the potential to add new avenues for creating #futuresknowledge and insights about the #futures in a #VUCA world with

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Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · Sep 10

and Marco Bevolo, PhD, They make the insightful argument that if we can rethink what we characterize as #aihallucinations not as being “wrong” or “mistakes”, but perhaps foresight practitioners might reframe these “errors” to see them as output where the Generative AI systems exercise their

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Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · Sep 10

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-2... Are #LLMS and #generativeai really hallucinating? Or do they simply have information and insights that we do not? How can we capitalize on the concept of #liminality to help #automate the practice of #foresight? Find out in this delightful essay by Dennis D Draeger

Automating Liminality in Foresight Practice * Journal of Futures Studies

The purpose of this reflexive essay is to add to the discussion around AI-enabled foresight with a systematic review of one specific phenomenon, namely Generative AI hallucinations. These are seemingl...

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Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · Sep 2

#agency, #hope, and inner resourcefulness in the face of growing #complexity. @ivanafutures.bsky.social @itsanisah.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social

Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · Sep 2

#emerging field of #personalfutures, along with as-yet-unseen collaborations in fields such as #neuroscience, #dance, #psychotherapy, #coaching, #spirituality, and many more. See how the theory offers #foresight practitioners and learners a powerful #framework for meeting the #future with

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Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · Sep 2

Kenneth Y. Wee! Drawing on the work of Deb Dana, @sohailfutures.bsky.social , and Debra Em Wilson on #futuresliteracy, see how the development of tools derived from Polyvagal theory are likely to find even more #novel and potent applications in the #future of #futuresstudies, specifically in the

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Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · Sep 2

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-2... How can we best apply #Polyvagal Theory to #futuresthinking, and uncover exciting and potent set of #futurestools, both #conceptual and #practical, for understanding and working with the body in #futures thinking? Find out in this wonderful essay by

Exploring a Polyvagal Futures Literacy * Journal of Futures Studies

Polyvagal Theory, developed by clinical psychiatrist Stephen Porges in the mid-1990s, offers a scientific theory for understanding the role of the autonomous nervous system in how we meet and respond ...

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Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · Aug 25

when we are trying to be still, we offer a #phenomenological approach to dis/ableism. #futures #anticipatoryfutures #Futuresliteracy @sohailfutures.bsky.social @itsanisah.bsky.social @rem59.bsky.social @ivanafutures.bsky.social

Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · Aug 25

Loes Damhof, and Martin Calnan of course! Taking an enhanced approach, they use disability and crip theory as a lens through which we can #rethink the way we think about the #future. Start with a sensory experience that invites us not to #envision a #disabledfuture, but to feel what is failing us

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Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social · Aug 25

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-2... How can we better explore the relationship between #futuresthinking and #disabilitystudies as crucial steps in starting the dialogue on how #criptheory, #disability studies and #futuresstudies can mutually benefit each other? In this fantastic essay by Craig Slee

Dis/abling Futures: What Ableism Stops Us Noticing * Journal of Futures Studies

Let’s sit absolutely still for a few minutes.In Paris at the World Futures Studies Federation’s 2023 conference, we asked attendees during our keynote on (Dis)abling futures, to sit absolutely still f...

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