JAMES DATOR
Background: Jim Dator is a Professor and Director of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, Department of Political Science, and Adjunct Professor in the Program in Public Administration, the College of Architecture, and the Center for Japanese Studies, of the University of Hawaii at Manoa; Co-Chair, Space and Society Division, International Space University, Strasbourg, France; former President, World Futures Studies Federation; Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science. He also taught at 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). He is a Danforth Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and Fulbright Fellow. He consults widely on the futures of law, governance, tourism, and space.
Recent Publications by Jim Dator:
Books
Democracy and Futures. (with Mika Mannermaa and Paula Tiihonen). Helsinki: Parliament of Finland, 2006
Fairness, Globalization and Public Institutions: East Asia and Beyond. (with Dick Pratt and Yongseok Seo). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006.
Advancing Futures: Futures Studies in Higher Education. New York: Praeger, 2002.
Co-creating a Public Philosophy for Futures Generations, (with Tae-Chang Kim). London: Adamantine Press, 1999
Articles
"Governing the Futures: Dream or Survival Societies?" Journal of Futures Studies, May 2007, 11(4): 1 - 14
"Religion and war in the 21st Century," in Tenri Daigaku Chiiki Bunka Kenyu Center, ed., Senso, Shukyo, Heiwa [War, Religion, Peace], Tenri Daigaku 80 Shunen Kinen [Tenri University 80th anniversary celebration]. (Tenri-Shi, Japan: Tenri Daigaku, 2007, pp. 34-51).
"Will America ever become a democracy?" in Mika Mannermaa, Jim Dator and Paula Tiihonen, eds., Democracy and Futures. Helsinki: Parliament of Finland, 2006, pp. 61-68
"Alternative Futures of Policing in New Zealand," in Securing the future: Networked policing in New Zealand. Proceedings of a conference held on 22 November 2006. New Zealand Police, Wellington, New Zealand, pp. 4-14.
"Learning to Seek: Globalization, Governance, and the Futures of Higher Education," special issue of Peace and Policy, Vol. 1, 2006, co-edited with Walter Truett Anderson and Majid Tehranian.
"The futures of information, literacy and lifetime learning: A symphonic meditation," Reference Services Review, Vol. 34, No. 4, 2006, pp. 458-471.
"Alternative futures for K-Waves," in Tessaleno Devezas, eds., Kondratieff Waves, Warfare and World Security. Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2006, pp. 311-317.
"Campus Futures," published simultaneously in Planning for Higher Education (Journal of the Society for College and University Planners), Vol. 34, No. 3, April-June 2006, pp. 45-48; Business Officer (Journal of the National Association of College and University Business Officers), Vol. 39, No. 10, April 2006, pp. 24-17; and Facilities Manager (Journal of the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers), Vol. 22, No. 2., March/April 2006, pp. 24-27.
"Korea as teh wave of a future: The emerging Dream Society of icons and aesthetic experience" (with Yongseok Seo), Papers of the British Association for Korean Studies, Vol. 10. 2005, pp. 1-21. Also in Journal of Futures Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, August 2004, pp. 31-44.
"Universities without 'quality' and quality without 'universities,'" On the Horizon. Vol. 13, No. 4, 2005, pp. 199-215. (Voted the outstanding paper for 2006).
"Assuming 'responsibility for your rose,'" in Jouni Paavola and Ian Lowe, eds., Environmental Values in a Globalistic World: Nature, Justice and Governance. London: Routledge, 2004, Chapter 13.
"Visions, Values, Technologies and Schools," in Aharon Aviram and Janice Richardson, eds., Upon What Does the Turtle Stand? Rethinking Education for a Digital Age. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, pp. 241-250.
"Futures of Identity, Racism, and Diversity," Journal of Futures Studies, February 2004, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 47-54.
"Mortgage Banking for the New American Empire, and other futures." Foresight, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2004, pp. 13-18
"Some in power, some in pain: A Symphonic meditation on humanity and space," in Michael Rycroft, ed., Beyond the International Space Station: The future of human spaceflight. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
"Closing the deal: How to make organizations act on futures research," (with Jerome Glenn and Theodore Gordon), Foresight, Vol. 3, No. 3, June 2001, pp. 177-189.
"Judicial governance of the Long Blur," Futures, Vol. 35, No. 1, January 2001.
"When courts are overgrown with grass: Futures of courts and law," Futures, Vol. 32, No. 1, February 2000.
Current Research and Writing Projects:
- Futures of Higher Education (with Ray Yeh, School of Architecture)
- The Unholy Trinity Plus One: Transitioning to the World After Tomorrow (learning to survive the end of the world as we know it in Hawaii)
- Space, Human Dreams, and the Arts (Chapter for a book on space exploartion)
- Ethical relations between humans and robots (A project with the government of Korrea)
- Through the initiative of PISCES (Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems) participaitng with Bob Fox (UH Hilo) and twenty other UH faculty and students from all UH System campuses in the development of a UH Systemwide Certificate in Space Studies
Courses taught:
Polsci 171 Introduction to Political Futures, is an introductory overview to ideas, concerns, theories and methods about the futures. It is offered regularly in three versions, face-to-face; online through the Outreach College, UHM, and online through the Freshman Seminar Program, UHM. The face-to-face version satisfies both Writing Intensive and Ethical core requirements.
Polsci 342 Political Design and Futuristics, is an advanced undergraduate futures class focusing on designs of governance systems for a community on Mars in 2050.
Polsci 401, Teaching Political Science, is required of undergraduate students who are leaders in the online Freshman Seminar.
Polsci 672, Politics of the Futures, is a graduate level introductory course into the major images, theories, and methods of political futures studies.
Polsci 673, Futures of Political Systems, is a graduate level introduction to theories and methods of governance design.
Polsci 699, Internship, is a seminar required of all students in the Alternative Futures Graduate Option while they are doing their internship.