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The Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies (CPPFS) is an international research and consultancy network that promotes futures literacy with a particular focus on marginalized peoples and Muslim societies. CPPFS works with communities, charities, foundations, and research, educational, and art institutions to foster critical inquiry, action learning, and an ethical imagination for shaping decolonized, alternative, and preferred futures. CPPFS has pioneered the theory and methodology of Postnormal Times (PNT): an era in which old orthodoxies are dying, new ones are emerging, and very few things seem to make sense. PNT is a product of the forces shaping our globalized, networked world: accelerating change, uncertainty, and ignorance. Negotiating PNT requires new forward-looking pathways based on a critical understanding of complexity, transcending contradictions, and the ever-present potential for chaos. PNT requires working with a diversity of perspectives and shared values, which take us beyond dialogues to polylogues — creative spaces for learning and unlearning. Ultimately, CPPFS’s works to promote an understanding of, and exploring new means of navigating, Postnormal Times.

https://www.cppfs.org

ZIAUDDIN SARDAR

Director

Has published over 50 books:

The Future of Muslim Civilisation (1979) and Islamic Futures: The Shape of Ideas to Come (1985) are regarded as classic studies on the future of Islam. He pioneered the discussion on science in Muslim societies, with a series of articles in Nature and New Scientist and a number of books, including Science, Technology and Development in the Muslim World (1977), ­The Touch of Midas: Science, Values and the Environment in Islam and the West (1982), which is seen as a seminal work, ­­The Revenge of Athena: Science, Exploitation and the Third World­ (1988) and Explorations in Islamic Science (1989). Postmodernism and the Other (1998) has acquired a cultish following and Why Do People Hate America? (2002) became an international bestseller.

Sardar’s two volumes of biography and travel, Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim (2004) and Balti Britain: A Provocative Journey Through Asian Britain (2008) have received wide acclaim. He has also authored a number of study guides in the Introducing series, including the international bestsellers Introducing Islam and Introducing Chaos. Two collections of his writings are available as Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures: A Ziauddin Sardar Reader (2003) and How Do You Know?: Reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, Science and Cultural Relations (2000). His most recent books include Reading the Quran (2012) and Future: All That Matters (2014).

ALSO co-editor of https://criticalmuslim.com

Critical Muslim is devoted to examining issues within Islam and Muslim societies, providing a Muslim perspective on the great debates of contemporary times, and promoting dialogue, cooperation and collaboration between 'Islam' and other cultures, including 'the West.' We aim to be innovative, thought provoking and forward looking, a space for debate between Muslims, between Muslims and others, on religious, social, cultural and political issues concerning the Muslim world and Muslims in the world.

What does 'Critical Muslim' mean? We are proud of our strong Muslim identity, but we do not see 'Islam' as a set of pieties and taboos. We aim to challenge traditionalist, modernist, fundamentalist and apologetic versions of Islam, and attempt to set out new readings of religion and culture with the potential for social, cultural and political transformation of the Muslim world. Our writers may define their Muslim belonging religiously, culturally or civilisationally, and some do not 'belong' to Islam at all. Critical Muslim often invites writers of opposing viewpoints to debate controversial issues.

MOHAMMED ABDUL AZIZ

Deputy Director

founding CEO of FAIR

Director of FaithWise Ltd and a Consultant Senior Advisor to the UK Government on Race, Faith & Integration

he set up and led the Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life

JORDI SERRA DEL PINO

Research Director

Jordi Serra is a futurist

He is also a member of the editorial Board of Futures, World Future Review and Revista IAPEM.

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SCOTT JORDAN

Assistant Director

Scott Jordan, philosopher and political scientist, is attached to the Asian World Center at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He is a member of the Nonkilling Consortium International, and has worked with an international summer camp in China through the Soong Ching Ling Foundation. A regular contributor to the quarterly Critical Muslim, he hosts a radio podcast show, Tea Talk Asia. His research is focused on the postnormal dimensions of international policy, politics and governance, which he often explores through films.

https://criticalmuslim.com/editors

MAYA VAN LEEMPUT

Senior Research Fellow

Maya van Leemput is a professional futurist, multi-media artist, and a senior researcher at the Erasmus Hogeschool, where she is setting up the new ‘Applied Futures Research — Open Time’ centre.

SHAMIM MIAH

Senior Research Fellow

Shamim Miah, Senior Lecturer at the School of Education, University of Huddersfield, is a sociologist and expert on youth and identity.

His books include, Muslims, Schooling and the Question of Self-Segregation (Palgrave, 2015) and Muslims and the Question of Security: Trojan Horse, Prevent and Racialised Politics (Palgrave, 2017).

CHRISTOPHER B JONES

Senior Fellow

Chris Jones, a futurist, is a faculty member in the Graduate School of Public Policy and Administration at Walden University in Minneapolis.

His novel ""Fire and Ice"" explored the possibility of the collapse of Western civilization as we know it. He is currently writing and presenting on the convergence of Collapse and the Singularity.

WENDY SCHULTZ

Senior Fellow

Wendy has also worked for the UK’s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

LINDA HYÖKKI

Fellow

Linda Hyökki is a specialist in language and culture and a researcher on Islamophobia. She is a regular contributor to the European Islamophobia Report project and reports on issues regarding Muslims and Islam in Finland to the research platform EURO-ISLAM.INFO

JACQUES BARCIA

Fellow

He is one of the co-founders of Futuring Today

ELISABET ROSELLÓ ROMÁN

Fellow

Elisabet has curated science-fiction and tech related events ‘Steampunk: Futures That Never Were’ and the Barcelona Mini Maker Faire (2014), and founded ‘Postfuturear’, a Spanish network for dissemination of futures studies knowledge.

RAVZA ALTUNTAS-CAKIR

Fellow

Her research areas include political theory, modern Islamic thought, and multiculturalism. Ravza is particularly interested in youth education, women’s rights and empowerment issues.

Came across this publishing site that also had a blog. There are some pretty fucked up book titles so the guts of the book(s) are probably garbage also.

https://www.hurstpublishers.com/about/

https://www.hurstpublishers.com/blog/ ←found a gem of an article about ‘Western Culture’ and Where it Really Came From

Found it interesting that this publishing site has ties to:

https://www.criticalmuslim.io

https://www.opendemocracy.net/about ←-There are a lot of things to research on here including this fine section about open migration:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/openmigration

The smuggler finds a path where there is none, for a fee. Regardless of whether they are monsters or saviours, they are the only reason many irregular migrants reach their destination. (WTF…)

https://www.opendemocracy.net/openglobalrights

OGR launched here as a section of openDemocracy in June 2013 with support from the Ford Foundation and the University of Minnesota. (Their new site is below)

https://www.openglobalrights.org/topics/ ←Trump has his own tab here so you can search on "civil issues" because muh, orange man bad and screws up new world order….

Also, found this video and description of Ctl-Alt-Del

(Video of Tom Baldwin) https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/ctrl-alt-del/

https://youtu.be/pdld24x5mEM - Tom Baldwin "Is the Internet Bad for Democracy?"

(This idiot has spent the best part of three decades at the centre of politics and the media. He has been communications director for the Labour Party, political editor of The Sunday Telegraph, assistant editor of The Times, and The Times’ Washington)

Something has gone badly wrong: people loathe politicians, distrust the press and increasingly fear each other.

It’s easy to blame Russian trolls, Facebook news feeds, or the sinister manipulation of ‘big data’ — but these are all symptoms of an abusive thirty-year relationship between politics, the media, and a new information age.

Interviewing everyone from Tony Blair to Michael Gove, top journalists to Russian bloggers, and tech giant execs to online activists, Tom Baldwin describes a vicious battle for control of the news agenda, at the expense of public trust and the value of truth. He shows how technological change has hollowed out space for virulent new populist alternatives, including the so-called ‘alt-right’ and ‘alt-left’. And he warns that not only extremists, but also the progressive centre, may now decide to press ‘delete’ on liberal democracy altogether.

He shows how technological change has hollowed out space for virulent new populist alternatives, including the so-called ‘alt-right’ and ‘alt-left’. And he warns that not only extremists, but also the progressive centre, may now decide to press ‘delete’ on liberal democracy altogether.