The Future of the World: Futurology, Futurists, and the Struggle for the Post Cold War Imagination

ISBN-13: 9780198814337 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

Jenny Andersson

Opis

The Future of the World is devoted to the intriguing field of study which emerged after World War Two, futurism or futurology. Jenny Andersson examines how futurist scholars and researchers imagined the Cold War and post Cold War world and the tools and methods they would use to influence and change that world.

Recenzje

The Future of the World is an important book that properly situates the history of future research during the Cold War within its international contextand brings our attention to the methods that futurists used to justify the future worlds theyimagined. Andersson's book also highlights the need for historians to look at the broader institutional landscape of Cold War research firms, of which RAND was just one of many such examples. Such work will not only help us better understand RAND's historical significance, but also the ways in which professional expertise, consultancy, and method all intersected to shape the Cold War world and the one that came out of it.

O autorze

Jenny Andersson holds a PhD in economic history from Uppsala University in Sweden. She is currently a scholar with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and based at Sciences Po in Paris, where she also co directs the Max Planck Sciences Po Center. She has worked on the intellectual history of contemporary social democracy, and more recently, on the history of future research and concepts of the future in the post war era.