---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: JFS <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 4:18 AM Subject: Journal of Futures Studies - Newsletter To: Michel <[email protected]> March 2014 Edition of the Journal of Futures Studies View this email in your browser<http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=c90dad18600a6cf46664a2d58&id=a0c0016e97&e=a7d0e16e02> <http://tku.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c90dad18600a6cf46664a2d58&id=b8ee501221&e=a7d0e16e02> Like<http://tku.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=c90dad18600a6cf46664a2d58&id=c52c30d2cd&e=a7d0e16e02> <http://tku.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c90dad18600a6cf46664a2d58&id=50c3d00b65&e=a7d0e16e02> Tweet<http://tku.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=c90dad18600a6cf46664a2d58&id=4ff085db59&e=a7d0e16e02> <http://tku.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=c90dad18600a6cf46664a2d58&id=b0565547fc&e=a7d0e16e02> +1<http://tku.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=c90dad18600a6cf46664a2d58&id=12aa885c9c&e=a7d0e16e02> <http://tku.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c90dad18600a6cf46664a2d58&id=70379f7f21&e=a7d0e16e02> Share<http://tku.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c90dad18600a6cf46664a2d58&id=e04f034b10&e=a7d0e16e02> <http://us6.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=c90dad18600a6cf46664a2d58&id=a0c0016e97&e=a7d0e16e02> Forward to Friend<http://us6.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=c90dad18600a6cf46664a2d58&id=a0c0016e97&e=a7d0e16e02> Journal of Futures Studies - March 2014 edition* (Vol. 18 No. 3)* Jan Lee Martin Award Announcement The Journal of Futures Studies is pleased to announce the winners for the Jan Lee Martin Foundation award for 2013. This award, given annually, was established by the late Jan Lee Martin, reflecting her desire for futures studies to more effectively communicate futures theories, methods and approaches. She was deeply committed to the cause of improving the communication of foresight. Jan Lee Martin was a pivotal and enthusiastic promoter and communicator of futures studies and thinking. As a consulting editor of the Journal of Future Studies, she provided invaluable support to many authors, helping to raise the quality of articles and essays. The Journal of Futures Studies would like to congratulate the following authors: *Best article is shared by: * The Future of Water Resource Management in the Muslim World<http://tku.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=c90dad18600a6cf46664a2d58&id=0f915dd9ca&e=a7d0e16e02>by Syeda Mariya Absar And Exploring the Possibility of East Asian Futures Studies: Reinterpreting Dator through Zhuangzi<http://tku.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=c90dad18600a6cf46664a2d58&id=e500f97f00&e=a7d0e16e02>by SeongWon Park *Best is essay is: * Dator’s 2nd Law of South Park: Imagining (poorly animated) Futures of Religion, Technology, & Culture<http://tku.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=c90dad18600a6cf46664a2d58&id=ec1a2ec848&e=a7d0e16e02>by John A. Sweeney Special Issue on Narrative and Futures Studies Narrative and Futures Studies: Introduction by the Special Editor<http://tku.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=c90dad18600a6cf46664a2d58&id=472790abf4&e=a7d0e16e02> by Vuokko Jarva *Articles* Introduction to Narrative For Futures Studies<http://tku.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=c90dad18600a6cf46664a2d58&id=a1db2aec52&e=a7d0e16e02> by Vuokko Jarva This article is inspired by Michel Godet’s recent comment about the gap between scenarios and action. The article explores narrative’s dimensions as a tool for filling the gap between anticipation and action, and comments on the tellability of future and why narrative has great potential. It concludes with an emphasis the importance of taking into account the different views and languages of the copartners and close with the idea that, that futures studies should be deliberative, negotiation based, in order to bridge the gap. Creating Alternative Selves: The Use of Futures Discourse in Narrative Therapy<http://tku.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c90dad18600a6cf46664a2d58&id=317ea919fa&e=a7d0e16e02> By Ivana Milojević This article focuses on the field of narrative therapy which emerged in the 1990s, and investigates the use of futures discourse within it. Narrative therapy in psychology focuses on helping individuals to move away from unhelpful and distressing storytelling and towards new stories that shape their identities and relationships in line with the possibilities of desired presents and futures. The article therefore analyses the explicit and implicit use of futures discourse in narrative therapy, and investigates connections between narrative therapy and futures studies. It concludes by suggesting the strengthening of these connections by proposing futures studies practitioners further learn from narrative therapists and vice versa. Untangling Teachers’ Images of Their Futures Through Their Responses to the Futures Narratives of Children<http://tku.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c90dad18600a6cf46664a2d58&id=ad9daddc03&e=a7d0e16e02> By Debra Bateman A significant amount of research has been undertaken exploring individuals’ images of a future. What often remains uninterrogated are the ways in which others’ respond to these images of a future, as they are articulated through narrative discourses. This paper, then, seeks to address this void through the presentation of research which considers the ways that teachers’ perceptions of ‘the future’ are consolidated and challenged, as they work with children in a classroom setting. Tales of Our Tomorrows: Transmedia Storytelling and Communicating About the Future<http://tku.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c90dad18600a6cf46664a2d58&id=a409ff7a66&e=a7d0e16e02> By Peter von Stackelberg and Ruth Eira Jones Foresight professionals and the futures field as a whole faces a series of challenges in communicating about the future. Simply presenting data and having a “rational” discussion is not enough to shape perceptions about the future and move people to action. The rapid evolution of digital media technology and the emergence of transmedia storytelling present foresight professionals with a powerful new approach for communicating about the future. Transmedia storytelling is the use of multiple media – graphic novels, video clips on YouTube, blogs, Twitter, and enhanced e-books, for example – to tell one or more related stories set within a common storyworld. This article outlines some of the key principles of transmedia storytelling in order to provide a basic framework that foresight professionals can use when designing transmedia projects. Narrative Rhetorics in Scenario Work: Sensemaking and Translation<http://tku.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c90dad18600a6cf46664a2d58&id=93cc3df077&e=a7d0e16e02> By Zhan Li With Jerome Bruner and Walter Fisher’s work on narrative as a starting point, this article presents a narrative-based approach to theory-building for scenarios—relevant for futures narratives broadly defined—that conceives of them as sensemaking and rhetorical efforts for organizations that seek to catalyze decision and action through futures work. The organizational sensemaking theories of Karl Weick are combined with the rhetorical and narrative perspective of Actor-Network-Theory from which the key concept of ‘translation’ is drawn. Essays Extending the Scenario Horizon: Putting Narratives to Work<http://tku.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c90dad18600a6cf46664a2d58&id=cf22b63f0f&e=a7d0e16e02> By Marcus Bussey Postcards as Doorways<http://tku.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c90dad18600a6cf46664a2d58&id=0c67d2021a&e=a7d0e16e02> By Andrew Curry and Victoria Ward Reports The Challenges of Living Scenarios for Australia in 2050<http://tku.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=c90dad18600a6cf46664a2d58&id=9ceca0e7cc&e=a7d0e16e02> By Kristin Alford, Steven Cork, John Finnigan, Nicky Grigg, Beth Fulton & Michael Raupauch The Journal of Futures Studies is a publication of Tamkang University, Taiwan, supported by the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies. The Journal of Futures Studies is a globally-oriented, trans-disciplinary refereed journal. Its mission is to develop high-quality, futures-oriented research and thinking based on the evolving knowledge base of Futures Studies. JFS will highlight recent and upcoming editions and news from the journal, with a view toward making it easy for you to both access articles and essays as well as share them with your colleagues and networks. JFS aims to bring you: Epistemologically focused studies on the construction of possible, probable and preferable futures, Emerging methodologies in futures studies, including integrated, layered, and critical approaches, as well as empirical, interpretive or action-learning based approaches, Applied Futures (for example, case studies in the use of futures thinking for organizational transformation), Alternative futures of particular subjects (for example, genetics, nano-technology, utopianism, social movements, or particular areas, such as East Asia). The editors invite contributors in the areas of foresight, forecasting, long-range planning, visioning and other related areas. 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