Impact Trust • Working glossary
Colonised imaginations / decolonising futures
The recognition that dominant visions of the future tend to reflect Western, industrial, growth-oriented assumptions – and that communities need space to imagine futures from their own traditions and values.
Details
Context introduced
Riel Miller flagged ‘imperial ways of knowing’ restricting what counts as legitimate knowledge. Powerful concept for ensuring the bilateral doesn’t just import Northern European futures frameworks uncritically.
Source
UNESCO, postcolonial theory, Global South futures practitioners
Source / First Appears In
Futures Literacy TDT session / Horizon 2045 TDT session
Authors
Impact Trust team
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