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Chapter 9 Scenarios from Everywhere

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The final chapter widens the horizon toward views of the global present and future from more commentators—Americans with roots somewhere else in the world, and a range of writers based in other continents. Such scenario authors include for example Fareed Zakaria and Amy Chua in the United States, Josef Joffe in Germany, Dominique Moisi and Amin Maalouf in France, Kishore Mahbubani in Singapore, and (in a way) Lev Gumilev in Russia. Pointing to the responses from such commentators, the book sees global scenarios as an arena for world-wide intellectual exchanges. It also places this possibility in the context of the growth of global cultural interactions of other kinds, and the use of English as the dominant world language, and the distribution of translations.

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Hannerz, U. (2016). Chapter 9 Scenarios from Everywhere. In: Writing Future Worlds. Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31262-0_10

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