B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal
Governing the future: perspectives from literary studies - commentary to Jones
Authors: Ameel L
Publisher: GEOGRAPHICAL SOC FINLAND
Publication year: 2019
Journal: Fennia : International Journal of Geography
Journal name in source: FENNIA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHY
Journal acronym: FENNIA
Volume: 197
Issue: 1
First page : 145
Last page: 148
Number of pages: 4
ISSN: 0015-0010
eISSN: 1798-5617
DOI: https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.80379
Web address : https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/80379/41056
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/Publication/41087581
Abstract
Taking its cue from Rhys Jones's article "Governing the future and the search for spatial justice: Wales' Well-being of Future Generations Act", this commentary reflects on some of the challenges attached to attempts to govern the future. It proposes perspectives from literature and literary studies to enrich how we imagine the future. This commentary maps out how literary fiction and other forms of future storytelling associated with qualia - the "how it feels" of future possible worlds - may provide an important complementary to other, more distancing, modes of envisioning the future.
Taking its cue from Rhys Jones's article "Governing the future and the search for spatial justice: Wales' Well-being of Future Generations Act", this commentary reflects on some of the challenges attached to attempts to govern the future. It proposes perspectives from literature and literary studies to enrich how we imagine the future. This commentary maps out how literary fiction and other forms of future storytelling associated with qualia - the "how it feels" of future possible worlds - may provide an important complementary to other, more distancing, modes of envisioning the future.
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