CLA 3.0 celebrates the last thirty years of theory and practice, innovation and application.
The first CLA Reader, published in 2004, compiled articles on CLA as a method to gain academic respectability. Doctoral students would email and say they wanted to write their thesis on CLA, but their professors were suspicious. By 2015, when CLA 2.0 was released, we had documented hundreds of additional case studies. Professors were no longer wary; indeed, many were enthusiastic. The method, by that time, had been used by thirty-plus national governments, dozens of international organizations, hundreds of businesses and community organizations, and thousands of individuals.
With CLA 3.0, we have moved from planting seeds about a new method to nurturing young trees to watching a true forest of transformative and critical futures research. The forest, true to the iceberg image linked to CLA, is not just on land but in the ocean as well.
In this volume, the authors investigate varied topics such as conflict, education and learning, environment and sustainability, economy and society, city, and science and technology. The book includes chapters by the editors Sohail Inayatullah, Ralph Mercer, Ivana Milojević, and John Sweeney and consists of twenty-six chapters written by forty-seven authors.