Futures Studies at UH beyond the MA

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Vision Statement

Activities of the HRCFS

HRCFS and Futures Studies at the University of Hawaii

Futures Studies at UH beyond the MA

HRCFS and the World Futures Studies Federation

HRCFS and International Space University

Other activities of the HRCFS

Manoa Journal of Fried and Half Fried Ideas (about the future...)
 
Jim Dator's Vitae
short version
long version

Papers by Jim Dator

Papers by Prominent Futurists

Futures Syllabi

Past and Present Futures Folks

Links to Futures Groups

Futures Discussion Group

Dissertations by Futures Students

Many students completing the MA Option continue futures-oriented academic work at the Ph.D. level in the UH Department of Political Science. So too, students from other futures programs (such as the Study of the Future program at the University of Houston, Clear Lake) and various academic disciplines, come to the University of Hawaii for doctoral level work in futures-oriented political science. Other PhD candidates not only in Political Science but also in many other disciplines choose to include futures studies as one of their fields of academic competence on their doctoral examinations.

The authors and titles of recent future-oriented PhD dissertations from the UH Political Science Department include:

--Greg Aanestad (December 1993) "The Bust Generation: A Cohort Analysis"

--Henry T. K. Au (May 1984) "Alternative Futures of Hong Kong"

--Boonrak Boonyaketmala (May 1984) "The Political Economy of Political Dominance/ Dependency/ Disengagement: The Transnational Film Industry of Thailand"

--Robin Brandt (May 1996) "Futures of Work & Disabilities: Policies and Scenarios"

--Mitchell Cabral (May 1997) "Vision Tao of Humanity"

--Tim Dolan (May 1991) "Political Life Cycles: Service as a Rite of Passage to Adult Citizenship"

--Bruce Etherington (May 1984) "Self-Reliant Settlements: Using Human Resources for Housing the Poor"

--Debora Halbert (May 1996) "Weaving Webs of Ownership: Intellectual Property in an Information Age"

--Osamu Hara (December 1996) "Futures of North Korea: Its Structural Constraints and Alternatives"

--Jan Huston (May 2000) "Passion to Evolve"

--Sohail Inayatullah (May 1990) "Understanding P. R. Sakar: Epistemic Boundaries, Critical Commentaries, and Comparative Analyses"

--Jon Jonassen (May 1996) "Alternative Futures of the Cook Islands"

--Chris Jones (December 1989) "Gaia Futures: An Emerging Mythology and Politics of the Earth"

--Kenn Kassman (December 1994) "Envisioning a New America: The Worldview, Praxis Orientations, and Futuristic Visions of Three Subcultures Within the American Green Movement"

--Ed Leong (December 1999) "Hawaii Supreme Courts Role"

--Peter Miller (August 2002) "Paradise and Wilderness"

--Mike Ogden (December 1993) "Islands in the Net: Technology and Development Futures in Pacific Island Microstates"

--Liana Petranek (December 1999) "Who Owns the Skies?"

--Deacon Ritterbush (May 1993) "Sometimes the 'Native' Knows Best"

--Christa Slaton, (May 1990) "Televote: Expanding Citizen Participation in the Quantum Age"

--Wendy Schultz (August 1993) "Futures Visioning"

--Kazuomi Shiozawa (May 2000) "Futures of Higher Education in Japan"

--Don Weller (May 1971) "Rock Music: Political Implications"

--James White (May 2003) "Balancing the flow in a world of information"

 

PhD students currently writing future-oriented dissertations include:

--Cheryl Anderson on women in disaster forecasting and management

--David Brier on governments and the long view

--Jake Dunagan on neuropolitics

--Kaipo Lum on governance design

--Brian Masshardt on Japanese governance

--Wylma Samaranayake-Robinson on futures of Burma

--Yongseok Seo on politics of the Dream Society

--Hyeonju Son on history and futures of futures studies

--Shunichi Takekawa on Japanese newspapers

--Darlene Williams on women in the military

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