Dissertation
Selves and Spaces: Hacking Culture in Postnormal Times
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Doctor of Philosophy, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25907/00069
Abstract
Postnormal times (Sardar, 2010) has provided a lens through which futures researchers may interpret and understand change in the present and a language to describe the contemporary epistemological rupturing occurring across disciplines and canons. This is an acknowledgment that reductionist views of foresight and strategic planning have become increasingly insufficient in understanding and interpreting the world around us. What is required, according to Sardar, is an overhaul in the way futurists think and do things (Sardar, 2015). Traditional approaches to the future deal with the plurality of alternative futures by distinguishing between plausible, probable, possible, and preferable. Proponents of postnormal times argue that approaches to the future must now incorporate postnormal landscapes as a means to navigate our transitional epoch (Sardar & Sweeney, 2016). However, as an emerging theory in the futurist’s toolkit, postnormal times theory requires acute academic interrogation.
Details
- Title
- Selves and Spaces: Hacking Culture in Postnormal Times
- Authors
- Liam Mayo
- Contributors
- Marcus Bussey (Supervisor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sustainability Research Cluster
- Awarding institution
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Degree awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- DOI
- 10.25907/00069
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Engage Research Lab; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99544008602621
- Output Type
- Dissertation
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