Coping with the Future

Hans Christian Garmann Johnsen is a Professor at the University of Agder, Norway.Halvor Holtskog is a Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway.Richard Ennals is a Professor at the University of Agder, Norway and Linnaeus University, Sweden.

• Introduction: A disruptive world and ways of knowing 1. Coping with politics: From post-nationalism to re-nationalism 2. Coping with structural change: Understanding framework conditions 3. Coping with globalisation: Local knowledge and multinational companies 4. Coping with economic policy: Innovation policy in times of disruption 5. Coping with ways of knowing: A pluralist perspective on knowledge 6. Coping with decisions: First I imagine then I know 7. Coping with sustainability: The need for non-instrumental thinking 8. Coping with methodology: Validity and knowledge about the future 9. Coping with technology: A future of robots? 10. Coping with Humanism: A Posthuman future? 11. Coping with social learning: Social and economic change through engagement 12. Coping with organisations: Socio-technical, dialogical and beyond 13. Coping with leadership: The role of judgement 14. Coping with work: Redefining relations between work life and society Conclusion

"Overall the book can contribute and be very useful for those researchers, policy makers, business professional and practitioners willing to understand the times we are living through, and offers an open-minded attitude to current and future societal challenges. Readers with interest in philosophy, political science, sociology, economics and technology will find theoretical foundations, but also well contextualised examples, allowing an epistemological navigation in a structured route. Its reading could help in exploring, in a reflective and deeply ingrained manner, about the past, present and future. Submerged in this stage readers will find familiar routes that offer new landscapes, allowing to rethink normal and alternative models." - Egoitz Pomares