Forhistóría
Forhistória is an interdisciplinary field that studies the construction, transmission, and evaluation of historical narratives that concern both the past and the future. It examines how societies remember what happened and how they imagine what may happen, including forecasts, prophecies, utopian and dystopian narratives, and the historiography surrounding these narratives.
Derived from for- (before) and historia (history) in several Iberian and Romance languages, the term signals
Researchers in Forhistória apply methods from historiography, literary and media analysis, comparative culture, and data-driven textual
Though the concept has no single canonical origin, scholars identify it as emerging from debates about futurism
Subfields include the historiography of futures, forecast literature studies, prophecy and memory, temporal ethics in narrative,
Critics argue that Forhistória must distinguish between rhetorical use of future-oriented narratives and empirical evidence. Proponents