{"id":1223,"date":"2022-06-27T00:04:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T15:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/asiareview\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2023-01-02T16:03:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T07:03:58","slug":"memories-of-tomorrow-the-modern-relevance-of-the-mutazilah-in-the-writings-of-a%e1%b8%a5mad-amin-1886-1954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"Memories of Tomorrow: The Modern Relevance of the Mu\u2018tazilah in the Writings of A\u1e25mad Am\u012bn (1886\u20131954)"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1666059682274{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_acf field_group=”15″ field_from_15=”field_634e0b764f542″ show_label=”yes” align=”right”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image source=”featured_image” img_size=”full”][vc_btn title=”\uc6d0\ubb38 \ub2e4\uc6b4\ub85c\ub4dc” style=”flat” color=”chino” size=”sm” align=”center” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-file-pdf” button_block=”true” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fasiareview.snu.ac.kr%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F11%2F04-2_Alena-Kulinich.pdf|target:_blank”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]In his essay \u201cColonizing the Future: The \u2018Other\u2019 Dimension of Futures Studies,\u201d published in 1993, the influential British-Pakistani intellectual and prolific scholar of futures studies Ziauddin Sardar offered a critical evaluation of the then emergent discipline of futures studies from the perspective of non-Western \u2018others.\u2019 He concluded this essay with an ominous prediction that the discipline of futures studies was \u2018set to become another academic and intellectual instrument for the colonization of the non-West. Orientalism colonized the history of non-Western cultures. Anthropology colonized the cultures of non-Western societies. Development colonized the present of the Third World. Futures studies is becoming the tool for the colonization of the last frontier \u2013 the non-Western future itself \u2019 (Sardar, 1993: 187).<\/p>\n

At the heart of this process of the \u2018colonization of the non-Western future,\u2019 according to Sardar, lie three factors. The first is forecasting, which despite using various sophisticated techniques, \u2018simply ends up by projecting the (selected) past and the (often privileged) present onto a linear future.\u2019 The second factor is globalization, which \u2018promotes a dominant set of cultural practices and values, one vision of how life is to be lived, at the expense of all others.\u2019 And finally, it is the way in which futures studies itself has been developing into an academic discipline (Sardar, 2003: 247\u2013254). Having emerged in the West, with Western concerns dressed as universal concerns and Western experts both setting the agenda and suggesting the solutions on behalf of humanity, the non-Western perspectives have in the process been largely ignored (although occasionally appropriated by Western futurists). It appeared that non-Western nations had little stake in shaping the future.<\/p>\n

In such a situation, the pressing task for the people of non-West, according to Sardar, is to \u2018liberate the future\u2019 by transforming futures studies into \u2018the site of both real and symbolic struggle\u2019 (Sardar, 2003: 254\u2013255). Part of this struggle is to critique and resist the very forces that have been \u2018colonizing the future.\u2019 Another task, alongside raising future-consciousness among the people of non-West, is to draw on the emancipatory potential of non-Western traditions that have a power \u2018to upset the limited vision and self-satisfied composure of futures forecasters\u2019 (Sardar, 2003: 256). However, this is not simply a recovery of past traditions, but rather a complex process of orienting these traditions towards the future, wherein their recovery needs to be accompanied by the \u2018imaginative capacity to think traditions forward\u2019 (Sardar, 2003: 255).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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