Jim Dator: A Noticer in Time

James Allen Dator is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, Department of Political Science, and Adjunct Professor in the College of Architecture, of the University of Hawaii at Manoa; Co-Chair and Core Lecturer, Space Humanities, International Space University, Strasbourg, France; Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Futures Strategy, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Daejeon, Korea, and former President, World Futures Studies Federation.  He is editor-in-chief of the World Futures Review. He also taught in the College of Law and Politics,  Rikkyo University (Tokyo, for six years), the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, the University of Toronto, and the InterUniversity Consortium for Postgraduate Studies in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. He received a BA in Ancient and Medieval History and Philosophy from Stetson University, an MA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in Political Science from The American University. He did post-graduate work at Virginia Theological Seminary (Ethics and Church History), Yale University (Japanese Language), The University of Michigan (Linguistics and Quantitative Methods), Southern Methodist University (Mathematical Applications in Political Science).

“This book is a ‘must have’ for the personal library of any tourism academic and indeed anyone involved with tourism. I commend it to you without reservation.” (Michael Conlin, Journal of Tourism Futures, Vol. 6 (2), 2020)

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. What is Futures Studies, and what is it not?.- Chapter 3. Some Visions of Preferred Futures.- Chapter 4. Some Alternative Futures.- Chapter 5. Some Futures Theories and Methods.- Chapter 6. About Some Futurists.- Chapter 7. About some specific topics.- Chapter 8. About some specific places.- Chapter 9. Reflections.