Writing Future Worlds [electronic resource] : An Anthropologist Explores Global Scenarios / by Ulf Hannerz.

Prologue: Atlantis and 1984 -- 1. The "One Big Thing" Quintet & Co -- 2. When pundits go global -- 3. Playing with maps -- 4. Side shows: Eurabia, MexAmerica -- 5. Reporting from the future -- 6. Contemporary habitats of meaning -- 7. Culture: between XL and S -- 8. Soft power -- 9. Scenarios from everywhere.

This book is a detailed exploration and analysis of the rise of a publishing genre providing speculative, global, and comprehensive accounts of near term geopolitical trajectories. In exploring these works from an Anthropological perspective, Hannerz focuses primarily on textual materials - the books and articles themselves, ancillary publications by the same authors, and their textual afterlives as evident in subsequent commentaries, reviews, and, occasionally, debates. Such works clearly figure saliently and, at times, consequentially in the shaping of public and policy discourses around international relations, politics, and the ongoing explanation of emergent global phenomena. .