Writing Future Worlds

A pioneering approach to an Anthropology of the Big Picture
Appeals to readers in many disciplines including international relations, anthropology, sociology, history, and media studies
Written by a senior, internationally prominent scholar his Exploring the City, Transnational Connections and other books have been translated into several languages

A pioneering approach to an Anthropology of the Big Picture Appeals to readers in many disciplines including international relations, anthropology, sociology, history, and media studies Written by a senior, internationally prominent scholar his Exploring the City, Transnational Connections and other books have been translated into several languages

Autorentext

Ulf Hannerz is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden, and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. A former Chair of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, he has taught at American, European, Asian, and Australian universities, and has carried out field studies in West Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, as well as a multi-site study of the work of news media foreign correspondents.

Klappentext
This book is a detailed exploration and analysis of the rise of a publishing genre providing speculative, global, and comprehensive accounts of near term geopolitical trajectories. In exploring these works from an Anthropological perspective, Hannerz focuses primarily on textual materials the books and articles themselves, ancillary publications by the same authors, and their textual afterlives as evident in subsequent commentaries, reviews, and, occasionally, debates. Such works clearly figure saliently and, at times, consequentially in the shaping of public and policy discourses around international relations, politics, and the ongoing explanation of emergent global phenomena.

Inhalt
Prologue: Atlantis and 1984.- 1. The "One Big Thing Quintet & Co.- 2. When pundits go global.- 3. Playing with maps.- 4. Side shows: Eurabia, MexAmerica.- 5. Reporting from the future.- 6. Contemporary habitats of meaning.- 7. Culture: between XL and S.- 8. Soft power.- 9. Scenarios from everywhere.