Sohail Tahir Inayatullah is a Pakistan

Pakistan

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-born political scientist and futurist

Futurology

Futures studies is the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. There is a debate as to whether this discipline is an art or science. In general, it can be considered as a branch under the more general scope of the field of...

 who lives in Australia

Australia

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. He holds a number of academic positions:

• Professor, Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University
  Tamkang University
  Tamkang University is a private Taiwanese university located in Tamsui District, New Taipei City. Founded in 1950 as a junior college of English literature, the college has expanded into a full university with 11 colleges today....
  
  
• Adjunct professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast
  University of the Sunshine Coast
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• Adjunct professor at Macquarie University Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism
  Macquarie University
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Background

He was born in Lahore, Pakistan, and lived in Peshawar, Pakistan, Bloomington, Indiana, US

Bloomington, Indiana

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, New York State, US, Geneva, Switzerland, Islamabad, Pakistan and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He went to Hawaii

Hawaii

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 to study. He later moved to Brisbane, Australia. He currently lives in Mooloolaba, Queensland

Queensland

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Work

Inayatullah's contributions to scholarship in the area of critical and civilizational futures fall in three areas:

• The works of P.R. Sarkar
• Macrohistory and the grand patterns of change
• Futures studies – theories, methods and case studies

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

• Alternative Futures of Education: Pedagogies for Emergent Worlds (Netherlands, Sense Publishers, 2008) (with Marcus Bussey and Ivana Milojevic)
• Global Transformations and World Futures, UNESCO
  UNESCO
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   Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems
  Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems
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   (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
  Johan Galtung
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• 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/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)

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.