This is a chapter originally published as: Ramos, J. (2016) The structural, the post structural and the commons: meta-networking for systemic change,In Pease B., et al. (Ed)Doing Critical Social Work, Allen and Unwin Introduction This chapter takes up the challenge posed by the editors of this volume, to articulate new forms of critical social and…
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Linking Foresight and Action
In 2016 I decided to contribute a book chapter on a futures studies perspective on participatory action research, in an ambitious project led by Lonnie Rowell, Catherine D. Bruce, Joseph M. Shosh, and Margaret M. Riel. It was quite a journey. I want to specifically thank them and those futurists that helped me by responding to…
Liquid Democracy and the Futures of Governance
This is a book chapter entitled “Liquid Democracy and the Futures of Governance“, which I published this year in a book edited by Jenifer Winter and Ryota Ono, entitled The Future Internet (Springer). The chapter is a synthesis of my research in Germany in 2013-2014 on Liquid Democracy, exploring questions regarding the significance of Liquid Democracy in broader…
Cosmo-localism and the futures of material production
Photo By Nicholas Zambetti – http://www.arduino.cc/, CC BY-SA 3.0, This essay posits the idea of ‘cosmo-localism’ (or ‘cosmo-localization’) as a potentially useful concept in both explaining a new economic model and in formulating sustainable development pathways. It is a thought stimulation exercise that invites us to join a conversation about the design of a new political economy. The essay…
Publications: José Ramos
Ramos, J. (2021). “The Power of IIDEAS: Cosmolocalism and the Transformation of the Production of Everyday Life”, The Seoul Institute. (report) Ramos, J. (2020). “Four Futures of Reality.” Journal of Futures Studies, 24(4), 5-24. (refereed article) Bauwens, M. and Ramos, J. (2020) “Awakening to an Ecology of the Commons.” In Grear, A., & Bollier, D. The…
Intuition and Foresight: The Inner Game
For years I’ve benefited greatly from the work of and association with teachers and friends in the domain of foresight and futures studies who have brought intuition into the field. There are too many to name, but have spanned at least 3 continents! Just recently Oliver Markley edited a special symposium of the Journal of Futures…
Anticipatory Governance: Traditions and Trajectories for Strategic Design
In 2012 I was invited to set up a “foresight for public policy” course at the Lee Kuan Yee School for Public Policy (at the National University of Singapore). As part of this job I did a review of as much public policy and governance lit as I could in the area, in an attempt…
The (evolving…) Futures of Power in the Network Era
As Edward Snowden spends yet another night in the limbo of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport (as I write this), one flight away from returning to his homeland to be drawn and quartered, one flight away from potential asylum with a country ready to risk the wrath of Imperium, and Julian Assange remains holed up in…
Rising to the challenge of the 21st century: the role of futures research and practice
This short essay is adapted from a short piece I wrote during my time as Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, for their publication Global-is-Asian. ================= More than ever, futures research is needed to support people’s critical understanding of the challenges we face…
Foresight, Innovation and Enterprise Modeling – A 10+ Year Journey
This draft paper, titled “Foresight, Innovation and Enterprise Modeling” (downloadable HERE), is the culmination of a decade long journey in attempting to link our evolving knowledge of emerging futures with present action, through a variety of means, innovation and enterprise development, design, activism, policy development, meditation (yes that is correct – doing absolutely nothing is…