Sohail Inayatullah

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Sohail Tahir^[1] Inayatullah is a political scientist and futurist who lives in Australia. He holds a number of academic positions:

Sohail Inayatullah
Sohail Tahir Inayatullah
Born	1958[2] Lahore,  Pakistan
Residence	Sunshine Coast,  Australia
Fields	Futures studies, political science
Institutions	Tamkang University University of the Sunshine Coast Queensland University of Technology Prout College
Alma mater	University of Hawaii

• Professor, Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University
• Adjunct professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast
• Visiting academic at Queensland University of Technology

He also teaches online at Prout College.org and the Transcend Peace University.

Contents 1 Background 2 Work 3 Publications 3.1 Authored books 3.2 Edited books 3.3 CDs/DVDs 4 References 5 External Links

[edit] Background

Sohail Inayatullah is of Punjabi descent. He was born in Lahore, Pakistan,^[3] and lived in Peshawar, Pakistan, Bloomington, Indiana, US, New York State, US, Geneva, Switzerland, Islamabad, Pakistan and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He went to Hawaii to study.^[4] He later moved to Brisbane, Australia.^[5]. He currently lives in Mooloolaba, Queensland.^[6]

[edit] Work

Inayatullah's contributions to scholarship in the area of critical and civilizational futures fall in three areas:

• The works of P.R. Sarkar^[7][8][9]
• Macrohistory and the grand patterns of change^[10]
• Futures studies – theories, methods and case studies

[edit] Publications

[edit] Authored books

• Understanding Sarkar: Tantra, Macrohistory and Transformative Knowledge (Leiden, Brill, January, 2002).
• Questioning the Future: Futures Studies, Action Learning and Organizational Transformation (Tamsui, Tamkang University, 2002)
• Questioning the Future: Methods and Tools for Organizational and Societal Transformation (Tamsui, Tamkang University, 2005, 2007) 2nd and 3rd editions
• Situating Sarkar: Tantra, Macrohistory and Alternative Futures (Maleny, Australia, Gurkula Press, 1999)

[edit] Edited books

• Alternative Futures of Education: Pedagogies for an Emergent World (Netherlands,

Sense Publishers, 2008) (with Marcus Bussey and Ivana Milojevic)

• Global Transformations and World Futures, UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (Oxford,

EOLSS Publishers, 2002)

• Neohumanistic Educational Futures (Tamkang University Press, Tamsui, Taiwan, 2006) (with

Marcus Bussey and Ivana Milojevic)

• The Causal Layered Analysis Reader: Theory and Case Studies of an Integrative and Transformative Methodology (Tamkang University Press, Tamsui, Taiwan, 2004).
• Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures: A Ziauddin Sardar Reader (London, Pluto Press, 2003) (with Gail Boxwell)
• Youth Futures: Empirical Research and Transformative Visions (Westport, Ct. Praeger, 2002) (with Jennifer Gidley)
• Transforming Communication: technology, sustainability and future generations (Westport, Ct. and London, Praeger Studies on the 21st Century, 2002) (with Susan Leggett)
• The University in Transformation: Global Perspectives on the Futures of the University (Westport, Ct., Bergin and Garvey, 2000) (with Jennifer Gidley)
• Macrohistory and Macrohistorians: Perspectives on Individual, Social, and Civilizational Change (Westport, Ct., and London, Praeger, 1997) (with Johan Galtung)
• Transcending Boundaries: P.R. Sarkar’s Theories of Individual and Social Transformation (Maleny, Australia, Gurukul Publications, 1999) (with Jennifer "Jayanti" Fitzgerald)
• Towards the 21st Century: The Futures of Democracy in Pakistan and the Developing World: Selected Papers (Islamabad, World Futures Studies Federation and Pakistan Futuristics Institute, 1996) (ed., with Ikram Azam and James Dator)
• Chaos and Coherence in Our Uncommon Futures: Selections from the X111 Conference of the World Futures Studies Federation (Turku, Finland, Finish Society for Futures Studies, 1994) (with Mika Mannermaa and Rick Slaughter)
• Judicial Foresight in the Hawaii Courts: Proceedings of the 1991 Hawaii Judiciary Foresight Congress (Honolulu, State of Hawaii, 1994)

[edit] CDs/DVDs

• Futures Studies: Methods, Emerging Issues and Civilizational Visions - A Multimedia Reader (Brisbane, Prosperity Press, 1998)(with Paul Wildman)
• The Views of Futurists - Volume 4 of the Knowledge Base of Futures Studies (Brisbane, Foresight International, 2001)

[edit] References

[edit] External Links

http://www.metafuture.org – Sohail Inayatullah’s and Ivana Milojevic’s website

http://www.proutcollege.org – Website for PROUT