To See With Fresh Eyes: Integral Futures and the Global Emergency
Richard A Slaughter
Summary of Contents
Part One: Early Perspectives
Chapter 1. Origins of a defective worldview
Introduction
Plight of islands
Origins of the Western industrial worldview
Achievements of industrial culture
Costs of progress
The metaproblem
Chapter 2. Future vision in the nuclear age
Introduction
Roots of the nuclear threat
False boundaries
Fear and the stranger
Instrumental rationality
Exploitation and repression
The nuclear state
The future as nightmare: utopia to dystopia
Defending the high frontier: a backward leap for humankind
Negotiating viable futures
The interpretive perspective
A transpersonal view
Conclusion: empowerment and vision in the extended present
Chapter 3. Cultural reconstruction in the post-modern world Fragmentation, narrowness and the subversion of meaning
Four hierarchical frameworks
Participating consciousness
A global systemic view
Temporal balance
Cultural discourse and consciousness in transformation
Recovering meaning
Conclusion
Part Two: Applications
Chapter 4. Mapping the future
Introduction
Elements of a structural overview Continuities
Implications of global trends
Change processes
Serious problems
New factors ‘in the pipeline’
Sources of inspiration and hope
Conclusion: four major challenges
Chapter 5. Transcending flatland
Introduction
The bad news
The good news: recovery is already under way
Aspects of Wilber’s account
Meta map for a renewed worldview
Grounds of cultural recovery
Implications for futures studies
Conclusion: transcending flatland, or, the most interesting futures…
Chapter 6. A new framework for environmental scanning
Introduction
Limitations of conventional ES Transcending flatland
Meta map for a renewed worldview
Cultural recovery
Revised frame for ES ES in four worlds
ES beyond empiricism
Conclusion
Chapter 7. From forecasting and scenarios to social construction: changing methodological paradigms in futures studies
Introduction
Forecasting as a necessary contradiction
Scenarios and the discovery of divergence
Emergence of critical futures studies
An emerging paradigm – the social construction of reality
Conclusion
Chapter 8. The transformative cycle
Introduction
Inner and outer views
Outline of the basic T-cycle
Uses of the T-cycle
1987 conclusion
2003 re-assessment – origins and developments
Critical to integral futures
Conclusion
Part Three: Case Studies and Implications
Chapter 9. Waking up after the war
Introduction
Overview
How can futurists respond?
Post-conventional futures studies / foresight Post-conventional practice
Conclusion
Chapter 10. Mapping the limits of intelligence Introduction
Social interests Methods Focal domains
Capacity building
Discussion
Recommendations
Conclusion
Chapter 11. What difference does integral make?
Introduction
Changing methods and approaches
What is meant by ‘integral?’
Re-visiting ‘mapping the future’
How IF ‘refreshes’ other methods
Conclusion – wider implications
Chapter 12. The state of play in the futures field – a metascanning overview
Introduction
Overview and key questions
Definitions
Research method
Results
Conclusion
Chapter 13. Beyond the threshold: using climate change literature to support climate change response
Introduction
Part One: Aspects of the integral method
Part two: Emergent patterns in climate change literature Part three: beyond the threshold
Discussion
Conclusion
Chapter 14. Welcome to the anthropocene Introduction
‘Late cornucopian’ contradictions
Embrace insights into the state of the global system
Acknowledge, value and apply signals of change
Cultivate skepticism about the assumed primacy of science and technology
Explore the potential of human, cultural and institutional innovation
Develop and implement high quality responses
Uses of the grief cycle
An emerging agenda
Conclusion
Chapter 15. Making headway during impossible times
Conventional perspectives on the global emergency
What do conventional accounts tell us?
A most egregious error
‘Proto solutions’ for an emerging agenda
Beyond the growth imperative
Conclusion
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