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The future of the world : futurology, futurists, and the struggle for the post Cold War imagination / Jenny Andersson

Andersson, Jenny, 1974- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

First edition

Oxford : Oxford University Press, September 2018

1 Online-Ressource (xi, 267 Seiten) : Illustrations (black and white)

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: The future of the world / Andersson, Jenny (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-19-185191-9 ( : ebook (No price))

978-0-19-881433-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1080951248     

Elektronische Ressource: R; OUP (OPAC-Hinweis:Oxford scholarship online) (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1093/oso/9780198814337.001.0001

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MK 8000  | MS 4780  | MS 1280      Ähnliche Literatur

CB158

303.4909045

Basisklassifikation: 15.20 (Allgemeine Weltgeschichte)

*Weltpolitik ; Weltordnung ; Internationale Politik ; Zukunft      Zum Register

*Weltpolitik ; Weltordnung ; Internationale Politik ; Zukunft      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Forecasting -- History -- 20th century

'The Future of the World' is devoted to the intriguing field of study which emerged after World War Two, futurism or futurology. Jenny Andersson explains how futurist scholars and researchers imagined the Cold War and post Cold War world and the tools and methods they would use to influence and change that world. Futurists were a motley crew of Cold War warriors, nuclear scientists, journalists, and peace activists. Some argued it should be a closed sphere of science defined by delimited probabilities. They were challenged by alternative notions of the future as a potentially open realm. Futurism also drew on an eclectic range of repertoires, some of which were deduced from positivist social science, mathematics, and nuclear physics, and some of which sprung from alternative forms of knowledge in science fiction, journalism, or religion