Futures Journal Special Issue: Redreaming Australia

Staff in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning have been invited to contribute to the forthcoming special issue of the British journal Futures, guest edited by Merrill Findlay. Pre-print versions of their articles are available here to download.

This special issue commemorates the fifteenth anniversary of Imagine The Future Inc, a small project-based cultural development and futures organisation and publisher of Redreaming the Plains.

Fifteen scholars, most of them past speakers at ITF’s Ecoversity forums, call for “a comprehensive re-assessment of the way we Australians relate with one another, with our unique biophysical heritage and the ecological communities we are all part of, and with other peoples beyond our shores, especially in the rest of Asia”, as Findlay writes in her introduction.

The issue will be available online in April/May 2006, and in hardcopy in late 2006/early 2007.

Contributors and Contents

• Merrill Findlay – Introductory Essay Redreaming Australia (PDF 36.9 Kb)
• Merrill Findlay – River Stories: Genealogies of a Threatened Inland River System (PDF 178.0 Kb)
• Alan K. Pears – Imagining Australia’s Energy Services Futures (PDF 314.0 Kb)
• David Mercer, Linda Christesen and Michael Buxton – Squandering the Future: Climate Change, Policy Failure and the Water Crisis in Australia (PDF 144 Kb)
• Paul James – Reframing the Nation-State: Rethinking the Australian Dream from the Local to the Global (157.0 Kb)
• Jason Alexandra and Curtis Riddington – Re-Dreaming the Rural Landscape (135 Kb)
• Ian Anderson – An End to Aboriginal Self-Determination?
• Joseph A. Camilleri – Australia’s Unique Future: Reconciling Place, History and Culture
• Paul James – Reframing the Nation-State: Rethinking the Australian Dream from the Local to the Global
• Susan Kenny – Non-Government Organisations and the Dialectics of State and Civil Society
• Tony Stevenson – Rethinking Oz: More than Policy, the Underlying Mindset
• Jim Falk and Chris Ryan – Inventing a Sustainable Future: Australia and the Challenge of Eco-Innovation
• Peter Kinrade – Toward a Sustainable Energy Future in Australia
• Sam Lake and Nick Bond – Australian Futures: Aquatic Ecosystems and Human Water Usage

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