Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures

<p>As the uncertainty of global and local contexts continues to amplify the <i>Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures </i>responds to the increasing urgency for reimagining futures beyond dystopias and utopias. It features essays that explore the challenges of how to think about compelling futures what these better futures might be like and what personal and collective practices are emerging that support the creation of more desirable futures. </p><p>The handbook aims to find a sweet spot somewhere between despair and naïve optimism neither shying away from the massive socio-environmental planetary challenges currently facing humanity nor offering simplistic feel-good solutions. Instead it offers ways forward—whether entirely new perspectives or Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge perspectives that have been marginalized within modernity—and shares potential transformative practices. The volume contains contributions from established and emerging scholars practitioners and scholar-practitioners with diverse backgrounds and experiences: a mix of Indigenous Black Asian and White/Caucasian contributors including women men and trans people from around the world in places such as Kenya India US Canada and Switzerland among many others. Chapters explore critical concepts alongside personal and collective practices for creating desirable futures at the individual community organizational and societal levels. </p><p>This scholarly and accessible book will be a valuable resource for researchers and students of leadership studies social innovation community and organizational development policy studies futures studies cultural studies sociology and management studies. It will also appeal to educators practitioners professionals and policymakers oriented toward activating creative potential for life-affirming futures for all.</p>