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In the spirit of Raymond Williams’s classic Keywords, this volume provides the essential vocabulary currently employed in discourses on the future in 50 contributions by renowned scholars from a variety of disciplines, including history, cultural studies, literary studies, sociology, media studies, American studies, Japanese studies, Chinese studies, and philosophy.

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  • Bauman, Zygmunt. 2017. Retrotopia. Cambridge: Polity.

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  • Williams, Raymond. [1976] 1988. Keywords: A vocabulary of culture and society. London: Fontana.

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Paul, H. (2019). Introduction. In: Paul, H. (eds) Critical Terms in Futures Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28987-4_1

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