The Struggle for the Long-Term in Transnational Science and Politics: Forging the Future

ISBN-13: 9780367263829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str.

Jenny Andersson; Egle Rindzevičiūte

Opis

This book goes beyond the cultural histories of dystopia and utopia and into the problem of how societal futures are produced. Through a unique collection of national and transnational cases, it covers the struggle around future visions and prediction in the global Cold War era.

Spis treści

Foreword  Michael D. Gordin  Introduction: Toward a New History of the Future  Jenny Andersson and Eglė Rindzevičiūtė  1. Midwives of the Future: Futurism, Futures Studies and the Shaping of the Global Imagination  Jenny Andersson  2. Expertise for the Future: The Emergence of Environmental Prediction c.1920-1970  Paul Warde and Sverker Sörlin  3. Energy Futures from the Social Market Economy to the Energiewende: The Politicization of West German Energy Debates, 1950-1990  Stefan Cihan Aykut  4. Technoscientific Cornucopian Futures versus Doomsday Futures: The World Models and The Limits to Growth  Elodie Vieille-Blanchard  5. Towards a Joint Future Beyond the Iron Curtain: East-West Politics of Global Modelling  Eglė Rindzevičiūtė  6. Forecasting the Post-Socialist Future: Prognostika in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia, 1970–1989  Vítězslav Sommer  7. Official and Unofficial Futures of the Communism System: Romanian Futures Studies Between Control and Dissidence  Ana-Maria Cătănuş  8. Virtually Nigeria: USAID, Simulated Futures, and the Politics of Postcolonial Expertise, 1964-1980  Kevin Baker  9. Pan-Africanism, Socialism and the Future: Development Planning in Ghana, 1951-1966  Jeff Grischow and Holger Weiss

O autorze

Jenny Andersson is CNRS research professor at the Center for European Studies of Sciences po, Paris.

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė is a researcher at the Center for European Studies of Sciences po, Paris, and Associate Professor in Culture Studies at Linköping University, Sweden.