This is a good time to announce a call for papers on the topic of
THE HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE FUTURE
This is for a special issue of FUTURES: THE JOURNAL OF
FORECASTING, PLANNING AND POLICY. Futures is a
multidisciplinary journal published by Pergamon, which over
the last 30 years has been in the forefront of future studies.
The journal is currently indexed and abstracted by 25 services
in many disciplines and countries. For more information, see
http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/futures/.
Papers for this special issue will be peer reviewed, but a
wide range of topics and approaches are invited on the
following:
Philosophical and methodological issues surrounding the
history of the future, and their value for more
traditional forms of scholarship and policy analysis
Critiques and surveys of efforts to write histories of
the future
First-order examples of histories of the future
By 'the history of the future', I mean to cover a broad range
of genres, including:
How the future looks from the present (dystopian, utopian
scenarios)
How the present will look to the future (Whig and Tory
scenarios)
Historical counterfactual scenarios, which are often
captured by time travel:
what if past figures returned to the present (and
the past will be changed?)
what if present figures returned to the past (and
the future was changed?)
There is a 5000 word limit and the deadline is 31 March 1999.
The journal format favours endnotes over a reference list.
Initial inquiries should include a 100-200 word abstract of
the proposed article. Please make contact for this special
issue with Steve Fuller at [log in to unmask]
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Steve Fuller
Professor of Sociology
University of Durham
Durham DH1 3JT
United Kingdom
Fax: 44+ (0)191 374 4743
Phone: 44+ (0)191 374 2324
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