Ziauddin Sardar

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that all that was "normal" has now evaporated; we have entered postnormal times, the in-between period where old orthodoxies are dying, new ones have not yet emerged, and nothing really makes sense.

TL;DR: Cultural studies provides an incisive tour through the minefield of complex subject, charting its origins in Britain and its migration to the USA, Canada, France, Australia and South Asia, examining the ideas of its leading exponents and providing a flavour of its use around the world as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, Sardar's four laws of futures studies: futures studies are wicked (they deal largely with complex, interconnected problems), MAD (emphasise Mutually Assured Diversity), sceptical (question dominant axioms and assumptions) and futureless (bear fruit largely in the present).

TL;DR: Sardar and Davies as mentioned in this paper explored the global impact of America's foreign policy and its corporate and cultural power, placing this unprecedented dominance in the context of American's own perception of itself.

TL;DR: A Grand Memory For Forgetting as discussed by the authors is a collection of fairy tales of science with a focus on post-modernism and post-structured belief systems, including the Joys of Cynical Power and the Rivers of Belief.