Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures

The Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures provides insights and practices for creating more desirable futures beyond dystopias and utopias, featuring contributions from established and emerging scholars with diverse backgrounds. It explores critical concepts alongside personal and collective practices at individual, community, organizational, and societal levels, appealing to researchers, students, educators, practitioners, and policymakers.

Format: Hardback
Length: 364 pages
Publication date: 30 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

As the uncertainty of global and local contexts continues to intensify, the Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures responds to the growing urgency for reimagining futures beyond dystopias and utopias. It features essays that explore the challenges of how to think about compelling futures, what these better futures might be like, and what personal and collective practices are emerging that support the creation of more desirable futures.

The handbook aims to find a sweet spot somewhere between despair and naïve optimism, neither shying away from the massive socio-environmental planetary challenges currently facing humanity nor offering simplistic feel-good solutions. Instead, it offers ways forward—whether entirely new perspectives or Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge perspectives that have been marginalized within modernity—and shares potential transformative practices.

The volume contains contributions from established and emerging scholars, practitioners, and scholar-practitioners with diverse backgrounds and experiences: a mix of Indigenous, Black, Asian, and White/Caucasian contributors, including women, men, and trans people from around the world, in places such as Kenya, India, the US, Canada, and Switzerland, among many others. Chapters explore critical concepts alongside personal and collective practices for creating desirable futures at the individual, community, organizational, and societal levels.

This scholarly and accessible book will be a valuable resource for researchers and students of leadership studies, social innovation, community and organizational development, policy studies, futures studies, cultural studies, sociology, and management studies. It will also appeal to educators, practitioners, professionals, and policymakers oriented toward activating creative p.

Weight: 860g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367897185