This focus, and reliance on a mostly North-based global futures industry, may close down more culturally, socially and politically diverse and regionally relevant future worldviews in anticipation processes.
Across the four regions, we find that many anticipation processes open up dialogue about deep uncertainties and pluralistic worldviews but end up informing mostly technocratic and linear planning actions in the present.
A new paper led by @KarlijnMui out now in @GEC_Journal! Does foresight/anticipatory governance help open up future possibilities in the global south - or actually close them town? We report and combine insights from four global regions https://t.co/8SRPbsYIa7
I defended my thesis 'Anticipatory Governance of Sustainable Futures' last Friday. Big thanks to so many people who helped me complete the journey: @Vervoort_Joost, @peterpjdriessen and @AartiGupta17. @_RE_IMAGINE_@foresight4food, @UUCopernicus, @ENPWageningen & participants🙏