Ziauddin (Zia) Sardar is an Islamic polymath and who also edited the field’s flagship journal ‘Futures’. His scholarship into Muslim Futures brought him into the community and he stayed. His latest foray is into postnormal times which Zia believes is the zeitgeist of our era. He is a driving force behind the Centre for Postnormal Policy and Future Studies. Zia explains the 3Cs of postnormal times; Complexity, Chaos and Contradictions, and also introduces some of its menagerie; the Black Elephants, Jellyfish amd Swans.
Interviewed by: Peter Hayward
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Contact
Website: ziauddinsardar.com
Email: zia@cppfs.org
References
The Namesake: Futures; futures studies; futurology; futuristic; foresight—What’s in a name? Futures 42 (3) 177-184 April 2011
The Three Tomorrows of Postnormal Times November, 2015
Postnormal Artefacts, World Future Review 7 (4) 342-350 2016
Welcome to Postnormal Times, Futures 42 (5) 435-444 June 2011
Postnormal Times Revisited, Futures 67 26-39 March 2015
The Future of Muslim Civilization, Croom Helm, London, 1979; second edition, Mansell, 1987.
Islamic Futures: The Shape of Ideas to Come, Mansell, London, 1985
Colonising the Future: The ‘Other' Dimension of Future Studies, Futures 25 (3) 1993
alt.civilization.faq: cyberspace as the darker side of the West, Futures 27 (7) 777-794 September 1995
Postmodernism and the Other, Pluto Press, London, 1997
Editor, Rescuing All Our Futures: The Future of Future Studies, Adamantine Press, London; Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT., 1995
Introducing Chaos, Icon Books, Cambridge, 1998
Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures: A Ziauddin Sardar Reader, edited by Sohail Inayatullah and Gail Boxwell, Pluto Press, London, 2003
Future: All that Matter, Hodder, London, 2013
Editor, The Postnormal Times Reader, IIIT/CPPFS, London, 2018
