| Editors | Ian Scoones Andy Stirling |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Science and technology studies Sociology of quantification |
| Publisher | Routledge |
Publication date | 2020 |
| Pages | 196 |
| ISBN | 9780367903350 |
The Politics of Uncertainty. Challenges of Transformation is a multi-authors book edited by Ian Scoones and Andy Stirling, and published in 2020 by Routledge.
Synopsis
Written by several authors, the volume[1] explores issues and challenges linked to uncertainty and its treatment in a variety of policy issues such as finance and banking,[2] insurance,[3] and the regulation of technology.[4] The book also explore dimensions of uncertainty linked to climate change, disease outbreaks, critical infrastructures, migration, natural disasters, crime, security, and religion.
Main
The book takes issue against singular notions of modernity and progress as a hard- wired ‘one- track’ ‘race to the future'.[5] For the authors, the suppression of uncertainty can lead to narrow and simplified narratives about what constitutes progress, and prematurely foreclose policy options.
Examples where sustainability is seen framed around pre-selected direction of innovation and progress, with neglect of technical and political dimensions of uncertainty, can be found in relation to:[5]
‘smart cities’, ‘climate- smart agriculture’, ‘clean development’, ‘geo- engineering’, ‘green growth’ or ‘zero- carbon economies’.
Moving from the classic distinctions between risk and uncertainty of Frank Knight and that between uncertainty and indeterminacy of Brian Wynne[6] the authors explore with examples material, cultural, contextual and practical dimensions of uncertainty and how these play out in public affairs.
See also
References
- ↑ Scoones, I., & Stirling, A. (2020). The Politics of Uncertainty. (I. Scoones & A. Stirling, Eds.), Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2020. | Series: Pathways to sustainability: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003023845
- ↑ Walter, T., & Wansleben, L. (2020). The assault of financial futures on the rest of the time. In I. Scoones & A. Stirling, eds., The politics of uncertainty, Abingdon: Routledge.
- ↑ Johnson, L. (2020). Sharing risks or proliferating uncertainties? Insurance, disaster and development. In The Politics of Uncertainty, Ian Scoones and Andy Stirling, Routledge.
- ↑ van Zwanenberg, P. (2020). The unravelling of technocratic ortodoxy. In I. Scoones & A. Stirling, eds., The politics of uncertainty, Routledge, , pp. 58–72.
- 1 2 Scoones, I., & Stirling, A. (2020). Uncertainty and the Politics of Transformation. In I. Scoones & A. Stirling, eds., The politics of uncertainty, Abingdon: Routledge, , p. 1/30.
- ↑ Wynne, B. (1992). Uncertainty and environmental learning 1, 2Reconceiving science and policy in the preventive paradigm. Global Environmental Change, 2(2), 111–127.