The Politics of Uncertainty

Challenges of Transformation
Herausgeber: Scoones, Ian; Stirling, Andy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Pathways to Sustainability
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780367903350
• ISBN-10: 0367903350
• Artikelnr.: 60036809

Autorenporträt

Ian Scoones is a professor at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex and is co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre. Andy Stirling is a professor at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex and is co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre.

Inhaltsangabe

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)