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Call for Papers: FR EN

Re-conceptualising Foresight and Its Impact: Experiences in Decolonising Futures from the Global South

Closing date (abstracts): 30 June 2021
We welcome publications in all languages, as long as an English translation is also made available. Please share it within your own networks: We look forward to reading your piece or the piece of any person you may have found relevant.

Guest Editors:

  • Geci Karuri-Sebina, University of Witwatersrand

  • Riel Miller, UNESCO

  • Kwamou Eva Feukeu, UNESCO and University of Lancaster

Schedule:

  • Closing date (abstracts): 30 June 2021 (notification: 25 July)

  • Submission portal opens: 1 July 2021

  • Author submission deadline: 30 October 2021

C2D-Wits Seminar: Watch Event Recording

THE CAPACITY TO DECOLONISE BUILDING FUTURES LITERACY IN AFRICA

Date: 31 March 2021 2pm – 4:30pm (SAST)

Speakers

  • Dr Geci Karuri-Sebina – Visiting Fellow Wits School of Governance

  • Dr Riel Miller & Eva Feukeu – UNESCO Futures Literacy Programme, Paris

  • Dr Fred Carden – Using Evidence, Canada

  • Professor Catherine Odora-Hoppers – Gulu University, Ghana

  • Dr Yannick Kemayou – Kabakoo Academies, Mali

The Capacity to Decolonise ( C2D) is a proposition by an international, Wits-led team to undertake a large, multi-year action research programme focused on the role of “futures literacy” as a core capability to expanding imagination, choice and agency for action, starting in Africa. Futures literacy, which was the subject of a global UNESCO summit in December 2020, is considered an essential 21st-century capability that has to do with enabling us to understand our anticipatory systems and processes.