The Politics of Uncertainty: Challenges of Transformation

ISBN-13: 9780367903350 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 178 str.

Ian Scoones; Andy Stirling

Opis

Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? Examining in particular how uncertainties are experienced in contexts of marginalisation and precarity, this book shows how sustainability and development are not just technical issues, but depend on deeply political values and choices.

Spis treści

1. Uncertainty and the Politics of Transformation (Ian Scoones and Andy Stirling)  2. The Assault of Financial Futures on the Rest of Time (Timo Walter and Leon Wansleben)  3.  Sharing Risks or Proliferating Uncertainties? Insurance, Disaster and Development (Leigh Johnson)  4. The Unravelling of Technocratic Orthodoxy? Contemporary Knowledge Politics in Technology Regulation (Patrick van Zwanenberg)  5.  Control, Manage or Cope? A Politics for Risks, Uncertainties and Unknown-Unknowns (Emery Roe)  6. Expanding Cities: Living, Planning and Governing Uncertainty (Matthew Cook, Federico Cugurullo, James Evans, Sobia Ahmad Kaker and Saska Petrova)  7. Uncertainty in Modelling Climate Change: The Possibilities of Co-production Through Knowledge Pluralism (Lyla Mehta and Shilpi Srivastava)  8. Disease Outbreaks: Navigating Uncertainties in Preparedness and Response (Hayley MacGregor, Santiago Ripoll and Melissa Leach)  9. Disasters, Humanitarianism and Emergencies: A Politics of Uncertainty (Mark Pelling, Detlef　Mueller-Mahn and John McCloskey)  10. Intertwining the Politics of Uncertainty, Mobility and Immobility (Dorte Thorsen)  11. Disputing Security and Risk: The Convoluted Politics of Uncertainty (Helena Farrand Carrapico, Narzanin Massoumi, William McGowan and Gabe Mythen)  12. Unsettling the Apocalypse: Uncertainty in Spirituality and Religion (Nathan Oxley)