Featuring chapters from an international range of leading and emerging scholars, this Handbook provides a collection of cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research that sheds new light on contemporary futures studies.

Carlos López Galviz, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in the Theories and Methods of Social Futures at Lancaster University, UK. His books include Global Undergrounds (2016) and Cities, Railways, Modernities: London, Paris and the Nineteenth Century (2019).

Emily Spiers, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Creative Futures at Lancaster University, UK. They are the author of Pop-Feminist Narratives: The Female Subject under Neoliberalism in North America, Britain and Germany (2018) and the co-editor, with Tobias Boes and Rebecca Braun of World Authorship (2020).

Introduction: Why social futures? 1. A beginning: A critical history of scenarios 2. Agency: Futures literacy and Generation Z 3. AI: The social future of intelligence 4. Anticipation: Flourishing for the future 5. BioFutures: Where futurists and biologists meet 6. Borders: Retravelling Nickelsdorf 7. Climate change: Transformational adaptation in Bangladesh 8. Collaboration: Collaborative future-making 9. Data: The futures of personal data 10. Ecology: Thinking ecologically 11. Economics: Catalysing large-scale system change 12. Family: Homeland connections and family futures 13. Higher education: The future university 14. Inquiries: Healthcare futures 15. Lines: Material cultures of future mobility 16. Literary futures: What fiction can tell policy makers 17. Mental health: What can social futures teach us? 18. Mobility justice: Sustainable mobility futures 19. Multi-planetary worlds: Mobilities of the space age 20. Narrative: Telling social futures 21. Postcolonial futures: Urban eventualities 22. Prospection: Producing social futures 23. Publics: Infrastructuring proto-futures 24. Queering: Liberation futures with Afrofuturism 25. Smart cities: Policy without polity 26. Urbanism: Creating urban futures 27. Utopia: Futurity, realism and the social 28. Visible cities: Envisioning social futures 29. Walking futures: Following in the footsteps of mobility pioneers