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Chapter 1. Placing the Future: Understanding Space in the Making of Tomorrow.- Part I: Knowing the Future.- Chapter 2. Using Judgement to Anticipate the Future.- Chapter 3. A Technique for Guiding Images: Imagining the Future after Capitalism.- Chapter 4. Futures Consciousness as Vaccination against Misplaced Futures.- Chapter 5. Anaesthetic Worlds of Denial: 'Sleepwalking' through Climate Catastrophe.- Part II: Envisioning the Future.- Chapter 6. Utopias of Extinction.- Chapter 7. Futures all Around: Anthropological Reflections on Where (and How) to Find the Future.- Chapter 8. Envisioning Alternative Economic Futures through the Lens of Food.- Chapter 9. Economic Geographies of Post-Growth.- Chapter 10. Trusted Emplaced Futures.- Chapter 11. Speculating on Future Presents: Sociology, Futures, and Fictions.- Part III: Enacting the Future.- Chapter 12. Design and other Ways of Knowing the Future.- Chapter 13. Techniques of Futuring: How Imagined Futures Become Socially Performative.- Chapter 14. Outsourcing the Future.- Chapter 15. Futures Governance: The Case of Outer Space Technology.- Chapter 16. Was it Worth a Try? A few Lessons for the Future of Conferencing.

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      Publisher Springer
      Published 3/23/2025
      ISBN-13 9783031768408
      978-3031768408
      ISBN-10 303176840X
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      Chapter 1. Placing the Future: Understanding Space in the Making of Tomorrow.- Part I: Knowing the Future.- Chapter 2. Using Judgement to Anticipate the Future.- Chapter 3. A Technique for Guiding Images: Imagining the Future after Capitalism.- Chapter 4. Futures Consciousness as Vaccination against Misplaced Futures.- Chapter 5. Anaesthetic Worlds of Denial: 'Sleepwalking' through Climate Catastrophe.- Part II: Envisioning the Future.- Chapter 6. Utopias of Extinction.- Chapter 7. Futures all Around: Anthropological Reflections on Where (and How) to Find the Future.- Chapter 8. Envisioning Alternative Economic Futures through the Lens of Food.- Chapter 9. Economic Geographies of Post-Growth.- Chapter 10. Trusted Emplaced Futures.- Chapter 11. Speculating on Future Presents: Sociology, Futures, and Fictions.- Part III: Enacting the Future.- Chapter 12. Design and other Ways of Knowing the Future.- Chapter 13. Techniques of Futuring: How Imagined Futures Become Socially Performative.- Chapter 14. Outsourcing the Future.- Chapter 15. Futures Governance: The Case of Outer Space Technology.- Chapter 16. Was it Worth a Try? A few Lessons for the Future of Conferencing.

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