This dazzlingly original collaboration between two international authors focuses on 20 macrohistorians―that is to say, historians who have helped shape our entire way of conceiving ourselves―from Ssu-Ma Ch'ien and Ibn Khaldun to Oswald Spengler and Marx and Piritim Sorokin and Arnold Toynbee. The authors move toward a general theory of grand social change based on the writings of these macrohistorians and provide a comparative view of macrohistory and sociology.The book brings a cross-cultural and transhistorical perspective to the study of social change, analyzing macrohistorians and macrohistory comparatively and synthetically, from the traditional linear-cyclical divide as well as including broader transcendental and feminist approaches. Like a road map par excellence for the study of civilizational change, the book captures the panoramic sweep of history and helps readers learn to appreciate, and henceforth include in the circle of greats, those non-Western thinkers whose work they may until now have neglected.^L ^L Johan Galtung, Sohail Inayatullah, and the other contributors to ^IMacrohistory and Macrohistorians^R demonstrate that each generation may give new perspectives to ideas that we thought we understood. The book covers the vital perspective out of which the 21st century emerges, and in the cases of Sorokin, Toynbee, and Eisler, deals with theories directly bearing on the potential shape of the next thousand years. It brings a cross-cultural and transhistorical perspective to the study of social change and will be of considerable interest to historians and sociologists as well as students of philosophy, historiography, and political science.

Macrohistory and Macrohistorians: Perspectives on Individual, Social, and Civilizational Change

History

Galtung, Johan

Inayatullah, Sohail

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Praeger

The University in Transformation: Global Perspectives on the Futures of the University

Praeger Publishers

This book takes us into the future. Inayatullah and Milojevic explore five emerging issues that have the potential to dramatically impact wellbeing, food systems, climate change, gender equity, the family, and how we learn. They ask: Will the city of the future be preventive, able to provide early indicators of illness and wellbeing? Will the likely transition from meat to cellular agriculture transform the global food supply chain, shifting how we produce food and what we eat? Will women lead the Way and create a partnership society or will their - our - dreams be shattered? Will the family, stable for generations, if not hundreds of years, transform, becoming more diversified and inclusive of social and technological changes? Will learning transform, moving from the factory model to alternative paradigms such as the ecological or the digital? Will we be able to learn anytime, anywhere, from anyone? 
The book answers these questions by exploring the contradictions between emerging futures and tired pasts. Join us on this disruptive journey.

The End of the Cow: And Other Emerging Issues

Politics & Social Sciences

Milojevic, Ivana

Social Sciences

Metafuture.Org

Anticipation to Emancipation: Toward a Stage Theory of the Uses of the Future (Jfs Monographs)

Journal of Futures Studies

ISLAM, POSTMODERNISM AND OTHER FUTURES

Ziauddin Sardar is a prolific writer and an insightful cultural commentator. His latest book, Why Do People Hate America?, has been a regular feature in bestseller lists in several countries. In the UK, he is known as a leading intellectual and his regular contributions to the Observer, the Independent and the New Statesman have brought his writings to a wide audience. As one of our most high-profile Muslim intellectuals, he has also become an increasingly important voice in the media since the events of September 11th 2001. This is the first collection of his writings that offers a comprehensive introduction to his thought. Starting with his analysis of his own position as a British Muslim and a writer, it goes on to explore issues of Islam and cultural change, education, identity, post-modernism and the future. Drawn from a broad range of his work in scholarly journals as well as from his many books on aspects of culture and society, it includes his most frequently cited papers and makes an ideal introduction to the immense scope of his work in cultural studies.Ziaddin Sardar is currently the editor of Third Text and Visiting Professor of Cultural Studies at City University, London. His books for Pluto Press include Postmodernism and the Other and Aliens R Us.

Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures: A Ziauddin Sardar Reader

Literature & Fiction

Boxwell, Gail

History & Criticism

Pluto Press

Taking a long-term historical and future perspective on the university is critical at this time. The university is being refashioned, often by forces out of the control of academics, students, and even administrators. However, there remain possibilities for informed action, for steering the directions that the university can take. This book maps both the historical factors and the alternative futures of the university. Whereas most books on the university remain focused on the European model, this volume explores models and issues from non-Western perspectives as well.
Inayatullah and Gidley draw together essays by leading academics from a variety of disciples and nations on the futures of the university, weaving historical factors with emerging issues and trends such as globalism, virtualization, multiculturalism, and politicization. They attempt to get beyond superficial debate on how globalism and the Internet as well as multiculturalism are changing the nature of the university, and they thoughtfully assess these changes.

Education & Teaching

Gidley, Jennifer

Higher & Continuing Education

Understanding Sarkar takes us on a journey deep into the mind of one of India's greatest philosophers and macrohistorians. Sarkar offers a new discourse from which to understand social change and the nature of what it means to be human. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

Understanding Sarkar: The Indian Episteme, Macrohistory and Transformative Knowledge (INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE SOCIAL STUDIES)

Philosophy

Brill Academic Pub

Sohail Inayatullah takes us on a journey through Indian philosophy, grand theory and macrohistory. We understand and appreciate Indian theories of history, specifically cyclical and spiral theories of time. From other civilizations, we learn how seminal thinkers understood the stages and mechanisms of transformation. Ssu-Ma Chien, Ibn Khaldun, Giambattista Vico, George Wilhelm Friedrick Hegel, Oswald Spengler, Comte Pitirim Sorokin, and Michel Foucault are invited to a dialog on the nature of agency and structure, and the escape ways from the patterns of history. But the journey is centered on P.R. Sarkar, the controversial Indian philosopher, guru and activist. While Sarkar passed away in 1990, his work, his social movements, his vision of the future remains ever alive. Inayatullah brings us closer to the heart and head of this giant luminary. Through Understanding Sarkar, we gain insight into how knowledge can transform and liberate. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.

Understanding Sarkar [Pb]: The Indian Episteme, Macrohistory and Transformative Knowledge (International Comparative Social Studies)

BRILL

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