Causal layered analysis (CLA) is a future research theory that integrates various epistemic modes, creates spaces for alternative futures, and consists of four layers:
- litany,
- social, and structural,
- worldview, and
- myth/metaphor.
The author is Sohail Inayatullah, and here he explains well how these four layers work.
It’s interesting to see how he plays with narrative at the different examples and how he performs the construction of the future, making difference of an improved present, versus a transformative future.
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