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Born |
1958 [1] Lahore, Pakistan |
Residence | Sunshine Coast, Australia |
Citizenship | Australian |
Nationality | Australian |
Fields | Futures studies, Political science |
Institutions |
Tamkang University University of Sunshine Coast Macquarie University |
Alma mater | University of Hawaii, United States |
Known for | Causal layered analysis, Macrohistory/Sarkar writings |
Sohail Tahir[2] Inayatullah is a Pakistan-born political scientist and futurist who lives in Australia. He holds a number of academic positions:
- Professor, Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University
- Adjunct professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast
- Adjunct professor at Macquarie University Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism
Background
He was born in Lahore, Pakistan,[3] and lived in Peshawar, Pakistan, Bloomington, Indiana, US, New York State, US, Geneva, Switzerland, Islamabad, Pakistan and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He went to Hawaii to study.[4] He later moved to Brisbane, Australia.[5] He currently lives in Mooloolaba, Queensland.[6] He is also an American citizen, having lived in Hawaii from 1975-1994.[7]
Work
Inayatullah's contributions to scholarship in the area of critical and civilizational futures fall in three areas:
- The works of P.R. Sarkar[8][9][10]
- Macrohistory and the grand patterns of change[11]
- Futures studies – theories, methods and case studies[12]
Publications
Authored books
- Understanding Sarkar: Tantra, Macrohistory and Transformative Knowledge (Leiden, Brill, January, 2002)
- Questioning the Future: Futures Studies, Action Learning and Organizational Transformation (Tamsui, Tamkang University, 2002)
- Questioning the Future: Methods and Tools for Organizational and Societal Transformation (Tamsui, Tamkang University, 2005, 2007) 2nd and 3rd editions
- Situating Sarkar: Tantra, Macrohistory and Alternative Futures (Maleny, Australia, Gurkula Press, 1999)
Edited books
- A Society for All Ages (London, Emerald Group Publishing, 2008) (with Colin Blackman)
- Alternative Futures of Education: Pedagogies for Emergent Worlds (Netherlands, Sense Publishers, 2008) (with Marcus Bussey and Ivana Milojevic)
- Global Transformations and World Futures, UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (Oxford, EOLSS Publishers, 2008)
- Neohumanistic Educational Futures (Tamkang University Press, Tamsui, Taiwan, 2006) (with Marcus Bussey and Ivana Milojevic)
- The Causal Layered Analysis Reader: Theory and Case Studies of an Integrative and Transformative Methodology (Tamkang University Press, Tamsui, Taiwan, 2004).
- Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures: A Ziauddin Sardar Reader (London, Pluto Press, 2003) (with Gail Boxwell)
- Youth Futures: Empirical Research and Transformative Visions (Westport, Ct. Praeger, 2002) (with Jennifer M. Gidley)
- Transforming Communication: technology, sustainability and future generations (Westport, Ct. and London, Praeger Studies on the 21st Century, 2002) (with Susan Leggett)
- The University in Transformation: Global Perspectives on the Futures of the University (Westport, Ct., Bergin and Garvey, 2000) (with Jennifer M. Gidley)
- Macrohistory and Macrohistorians: Perspectives on Individual, Social, and Civilizational Change (Westport, Ct., and London, Praeger, 1997) (with Johan Galtung)
- Transcending Boundaries: P.R. Sarkar’s Theories of Individual and Social Transformation (Maleny, Australia, Gurukul Publications, 1999) (with Jennifer "Jayanti" Fitzgerald)
- Towards the 21st Century: The Futures of Democracy in Pakistan and the Developing World: Selected Papers (Islamabad, World Futures Studies Federation and Pakistan Futuristics Institute, 1996) (ed., with Ikram Azam and James Dator)
- Chaos and Coherence in Our Uncommon Futures: Selections from the X111 Conference of the World Futures Studies Federation (Turku, Finland, Finish Society for Futures Studies, 1994) (with Mika Mannermaa and Rick Slaughter)
- Judicial Foresight in the Hawaii Courts: Proceedings of the 1991 Hawaii Judiciary Foresight Congress (Honolulu, State of Hawaii, 1994)
CDs and DVDs
- Futures Studies: Methods, Emerging Issues and Civilizational Visions - A Multimedia Reader (Brisbane, Prosperity Press, 1998)(with Paul Wildman)
- The Views of Futurists - Volume 4 of the Knowledge Base of Futures Studies (Brisbane, Foresight International, 2001)
References
- ^ Inayatullah, Sohail; bibliography by subject
- ^ EOLSS - Global Transformations and World Futures: Knowledge, Economy and Society - Related Chapters
- ^ Alternative Futures For The Islamic Ummah
- ^ Using the Future to Explore Visions of Globalization
- ^ http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sacw/saan/pakpetit.html (See number 26.)
- ^ The Futures Foundation - Eco-consumers in your future
- ^ Fairness, globalization, and public institutions: East Asia and beyond, p.93
- ^ Sohail Inayatullah, Understanding Sarkar: Tantra, Macrohistory and Transformative Knowledge. Leiden, Brill, 2002
- ^ Sohail Inayatullah, Situating Sarkar: Tantra, Macrohistory and Alternative Futures. Maleny, Gurukul, 1999
- ^ Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer Gidley, eds. Transcending Boundaries: P.R. Sarkar's theories of Individual and Social Transformation. Maleny, Gurukul, 1999.
- ^ Johan Galtung and Sohail Inayatullah, eds. Macrohistory and Macrohistorians. Westport,Ct, Praeger, 1997
- ^ Sohail Inayatullah, Questioning the Future. Tamsui, Taiwan, Tamkang University Press, 2007
External links
- http://www.metafuture.org – Sohail Inayatullah’s and Ivana Milojevic’s website
- http://www.ru.org – Website for Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar's Renaissance Universal Movement
- http://www.jfs.tku.edu.tw - Journal of Futures Studies. Inayatullah is senior editor.
Categories:
- Futurologists
- Australian academics
- Living people
- American people of Pakistani descent
- Australian people of Pakistani descent
- 1958 births
- Pakistani academics
- Pakistani political scientists
- Pakistani writers
- Pakistani Internet personalities
- Punjabi academics
- Pakistani emigrants to Australia
- Australian Muslims
- American people of Punjabi descent
- University of Hawaii alumni