The Postnormal Times Reader Volume 2

Writer, futurist, and cultural critic, Ziauddin Sardar is an internationally renowned public intellectual. He has published over 50 books, including Rescuing All Our Futures, Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures: A Ziauddin Sardar Reader, and Future: All That Matters. He was editor of Futures, the monthly journal of policy, planning and futures studies, from 1999 to 2012, and served as a Commissioner on the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission, UK, from 2006 to 2009. He currently edits Critical Muslim, a quarterly literary magazine that focusses on topics important within Muslim thought and between Muslims and the rest of the world. He developed the postnormal times theory and established the Centre for Postnormal Policy and Future Studies.

Sociologist and expert on youth and identity, Shamim Miah is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Education, University of Huddersfield in the UK. His research is concerned with the framing of race and religion in public policy and promoting futures literacy amongst young people. His books include Muslims, Schooling and the Question of Self-Segregation, Muslims and the Question of Security: Trojan Horse, Prevent and Racialised Politics, and Ibn Khaldun: Education, History and Society. He has over twenty years’ experience of voluntary youth work, community development, and inter-faith work in Oldham, UK and has worked as a Senior Policy Advisor and a Youth Worker for Oldham Council. He is a Senior Fellow of the Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies.

Philosopher and political scientist, C Scott Jordan is the Executive Assistant Director of the Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies (CPPFS). He is also a writer, editor, and podcaster currently working extensively in Malaysia and Southeast Asia. A specialist in East-West Studies, he writes extensively on postnormal times, politics, governance, international policy, culture, philosophy, and education, which he often explores through films. He is the author of A Very British Muslim Activist: The life of Ghayasuddin Siddiqui. He has worked with the Asian World Center at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, where he produced the radio podcast show, Tea Talk Asia. He is also a Deputy Editor of the influential quarterly, Critical Muslim.