Chris Jones is a researcher, author, and educator with an extensive history in our community. He has taught political science and future studies in the USA state systems of higher education in Hawaii, Oregon, Texas and Colorado and was Secretary General of the World Futures Studies Federation for 4 year. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Postnormal Policy and Future Studies.
He has served on journal editorial boards, non-profit NGO boards, and has published and presented extensively in the futures studies field. His novel Fire and Ice (2005) explored eco-terrorism, alien First Contact, and the collapse of Western civilization. His subject interests include space development, cyber security, women’s futures, indigenous futures, deep/dark ecology, global weirding and accelerating warming, non-Western futures, global consciousness, and high technology.
Interviewed by: Peter Hayward
References from Chris
Dator, J. (2009). "Alternative Futures at the Manoa School." Journal of Futures Studies 14(2): 1-18.
Floyd, J. and Slaughter, R. A. (2014). Descent pathways. Foresight, 16 (6), pp. 485-495. DOI: 10.1108/FS-07-2014-0049
Haraway, D. (2017). Staying With the Trouble, Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham, NC & London, Duke University Press.
Lovelock, J. (1988). The Ages of Gaia. New York & London, W. W. Norton.
Lovelock, J. (2006). The Revenge of Gaia. London, Penguin Books.
Margulis, L. (1998). Symbiotic Planet. [A New Look at Evolution]. Amherst, Massachusetts, Sciencewriters.
Meadows, D. H., Randers, Jorgen, and Meadows, Dennis (2004). Limits to Growth. The 30-year Update. White River Junction, Vermont, Chelsea Green Publishing Co.
Morton, T. (2016). Dark Ecology; For a Logic of Future Coexistence., Columbia University Press.
Pollock, D.C., & Van Reken, R.E. (2009). Third culture kids: The experience of growing up among worlds. Boston: Nicholas Brealy.
Sardar, Z. (2017). The Postnormal Times Reader. Z. Sardar [Ed]. London, The Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies.
Slaughter, R. A. (2020). "Farewell Alternative Futures?" Futures 121.
Tainter, J. A. (1988). The Collapse of Complex Societies. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press.
Recommended Websites
Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies
Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies
World Futures Studies Federation
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