European Journal of Futures Research is affiliated with Institut Futur, Freie Universität Berlin and the World Futures Studies Federation.
Steering the future. The emergence of “Western” futures research and its production of expertise, 1950s to early 1970s
This article deals with the emergence of Futures Research after 1945 and its production of future expertise. The field of futures research (or futures studies/futurology) was conceptualised in a process of circul...