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      The Politics of Uncertainty
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      The Politics of Uncertainty

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      The Politics of Uncertainty book

      Challenges of Transformation

      The Politics of Uncertainty

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      The Politics of Uncertainty book

      Challenges of Transformation
      ByIan Scoones, Andy Stirling
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2020
      eBook Published 15 July 2020
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003023845
      Pages 196
      eBook ISBN 9781003023845
      Subjects Communication Studies, Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Engineering & Technology, Environment and Sustainability, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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      Scoones, I., & Stirling, A. (2020). The Politics of Uncertainty: Challenges of Transformation (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003023845

      ABSTRACT

      Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? To explore the underlying reasons, issues and challenges, this book’s chapters address finance and banking, insurance, technology regulation and critical infrastructures, as well as climate change, infectious disease responses, natural disasters, migration, crime and security and spirituality and religion.

      The book argues that uncertainties must be understood as complex constructions of knowledge, materiality, experience, embodiment and practice. 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 deeply on political values and choices. What burgeoning uncertainties require lies less in escalating efforts at control, but more in a new – more collective, mutualistic and convivial – politics of responsibility and care. If hopes of much-needed progressive transformation are to be realised, then currently blinkered understandings of uncertainty need to be met with renewed democratic struggle.

      Written in an accessible style and illustrated by multiple case studies from across the world, this book will appeal to a wide cross-disciplinary audience in fields ranging from economics to law to science studies to sociology to anthropology and geography, as well as professionals working in risk management, disaster risk reduction, emergencies and wider public policy fields.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|30 pages

      Uncertainty and the politics of transformation

      ByIan Scoones, Andy Stirling

      Size: 0.68 MB

      chapter 2|14 pages

      The assault of financial futures on the rest of time

      ByTimo Walter, Leon Wansleben

      Size: 0.59 MB

      chapter 3|13 pages

      Sharing risks or proliferating uncertainties?

      Insurance, disaster and development
      ByLeigh Johnson

      Size: 0.59 MB

      chapter 4|15 pages

      The unravelling of technocratic orthodoxy?

      Contemporary knowledge politics in technology regulation
      ByPatrick van Zwanenberg

      Size: 0.60 MB

      chapter 5|12 pages

      Control, manage or cope?

      A politics for risks, uncertainties and unknown-unknowns
      ByEmery Roe

      Size: 0.59 MB

      chapter 6|14 pages

      Expanding cities

      Living, planning and governing uncertainty
      BySobia Ahmad Kaker, James Evans, Federico Cugurullo, Matthew Cook, Saska Petrova

      Size: 0.59 MB

      chapter 7|14 pages

      Uncertainty in modelling climate change

      The possibilities of co-production through knowledge pluralism 1
      ByLyla Mehta, Shilpi Srivastava

      Size: 0.60 MB

      chapter 8|14 pages

      Disease outbreaks

      Navigating uncertainties in preparedness and response
      ByHayley MacGregor, Santiago Ripoll, Melissa Leach

      Size: 0.60 MB

      chapter 9|14 pages

      Disasters, humanitarianism and emergencies

      A politics of uncertainty
      ByMark Pelling, Detlef Müller-Mahn, John McCloskey

      Size: 0.74 MB

      chapter 10|10 pages

      Intertwining the politics of uncertainty, mobility and immobility

      ByDorte Thorsen

      Size: 0.58 MB

      chapter 11|13 pages

      Disputing security and risk

      The convoluted politics of uncertainty
      ByHelena Farrand Carrapico, Narzanin Massoumi, William McGowan, Gabe Mythen

      Size: 0.59 MB

      chapter 12|10 pages

      Unsettling the apocalypse

      Uncertainty in spirituality and religion
      ByNathan Oxley

      Size: 0.58 MB
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