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Featuring chapters from an international range of leading and
emerging scholars, this Handbook provides a collection of
cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research that sheds new light on
contemporary futures studies. Engaging with key defining questions
of the early twenty-first century such as climate change, big data,
AI, the future of economics, education, mental health, cities and
more, the Handbook provides a review and synthesis of futures
scholarship, highlighting the role that societies can and should
play in their making. While the various chapters demonstrate how
futures emerge and take shape in particular places at particular
times, the distinctive insight provided by the volume overall is
that futures thinking today must be social and contextual. By
presenting a range of futures work from contexts around the globe,
the Handbook contextualizes techniques – forecasting,
backcasting, scenario planning, collaboration and co-production–
to ask how different dimensions of the social are created and
circulated in the process. Through its thirty chapters, the volume
explores and interrogates narratives, anticipations, enactments,
ecologies, collaborations, prospections and so on to highlight
which versions of the social are legitimized and which are
encouraged and foreclosed. This Handbook opens an important
conversation about the centrality of the social in futures
thinking. By bringing arts, humanities and social sciences scholars
and practitioners into conversation with biologists, environmental,
climate and computer scientists, this volume seeks to encourage new
pathways across, between and within multiple disciplines to
interrogate the futures we need and want. The social must be our
starting point if we are to steer our planet in a direction that
supports good lives for the many, everywhere.
Featuring chapters from an international range of leading and
emerging scholars, this Handbook provides a collection of
cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research that sheds new light on
contemporary futures studies. Engaging with key defining questions
of the early twenty-first century such as climate change, big data,
AI, the future of economics, education, mental health, cities and
more, the Handbook provides a review and synthesis of futures
scholarship, highlighting the role that societies can and should
play in their making. While the various chapters demonstrate how
futures emerge and take shape in particular places at particular
times, the distinctive insight provided by the volume overall is
that futures thinking today must be social and contextual. By
presenting a range of futures work from contexts around the globe,
the Handbook contextualizes techniques - forecasting, backcasting,
scenario planning, collaboration and co-production- to ask how
different dimensions of the social are created and circulated in
the process. Through its thirty chapters, the volume explores and
interrogates narratives, anticipations, enactments, ecologies,
collaborations, prospections and so on to highlight which versions
of the social are legitimized and which are encouraged and
foreclosed. This Handbook opens an important conversation about the
centrality of the social in futures thinking. By bringing arts,
humanities and social sciences scholars and practitioners into
conversation with biologists, environmental, climate and computer
scientists, this volume seeks to encourage new pathways across,
between and within multiple disciplines to interrogate the futures
we need and want. The social must be our starting point if we are
to steer our planet in a direction that supports good lives for the
many, everywhere.
Offers readings of key contemporary trends and themes in the
vibrant genre of short-story writing in Germany, Austria, and
Switzerland, with attention to major practitioners and translations
of two representative stories. Since the 1990s, the short story has
re-emerged in the German-speaking world as a vibrant literary
genre, serving as a medium for both literary experimentation and
popular forms. Authors like Judith Hermann and Peter Stamm have had
a significant impact on German-language literary culture and, in
translation, on literary culture in the UK and USA. This volume
analyzes German-language short-story writing in the twenty-first
century, aiming to establish a framework for further research into
individual authors as well as key themes and formal concerns. An
introduction discusses theories of the short-story form and
literary-aesthetic questions. A combination of thematic and
author-focused chapters then discuss key developments in the
contemporary German-language context, examining performance and
performativity, Berlin and crime stories, and the openendness,
fragmentation, liminality, and formal experimentations that
characterize short stories in the twenty-first century. Together
the chapters present the rich field of short-story writing in
Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, offering a variety of
theoretical approaches to individual stories and collections, as
well as exploring connections with storytelling, modernist short
prose, and the novella. The volume concludes with a survey of broad
trends, and three original translations exemplifying the breadth of
contemporary German-language short-story writing.
In Pop-Feminist Narratives, Emily Spiers explores the recent
phenomenon of 'pop-feminism' and pop-feminist writing across North
America, Britain, and Germany. Pop-feminism is characterised by its
engagement with popular culture and consumerism; its preoccupation
with sexuality and transgression in relation to female agency; and
its thematisation of intergenerational feminist discord, portrayed
either as a damaging discursive construct or as a verifiable
phenomenon requiring remediation. Central to this volume is the
question of theorising the female subject in a postfeminist
neoliberal climate and the role played by genre and narrative in
the articulation of contemporary pop-feminist politics. The
heightened visibility of mainstream feminist discourse and feminist
activism in recent years-especially in North America, Britain, and
Germany-means that the time is ripe for a coherent comparative
scholarly study of pop-feminism as a transnational phenomenon. This
volume provides such an account of pop-feminism in a manner which
takes into account the varied and complex narrative strategies
employed in the telling of pop-feminist stories across multiple
genres and platforms, including pop-literary fiction, the popular
'guide' to feminism, film, music, and the digital.
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