The Politics of Uncertainty
| Editors | Ian Scoones Andy Stirling |
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| Language | English |
| Subjects | Science and technology studies Sociology of quantification |
| Publisher | Routledge |
Publication date | 2020 |
| Pages | 196 |
| ISBN | 9780367903350 Search this book on  . |
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[edit]
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[edit]
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.
Reception[edit]
For [7] this volume illuminates how governments and private actors (e.g. insurances) may attempt to deal with non-knowledge by formulating uncertainty as risk [a reference here to the Knightian distinction between quantifiable risk and unquantifiable uncertainty] and so, 'by rendering non-knowledge into calculable risk, reduce the world in particular ways that favour managerialism and de-emphasise other ways of knowing and living.'[7] A discussion of the book in podcast[8] has been produced by the Institute of Development Studies. The book is cited in debates about sustainability transition and transformation.[9]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 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.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Meckin, R., Nind, M., Coverdale, A. (3 September 2023). "Uncertainties in a time of changing research practices". International Journal of Social Research Methodology. Routledge. 26 (5): 507–513. doi:10.1080/13645579.2023.2173421. ISSN 1364-5579.
- ↑ Edwards, G., The politics of uncertainty - Andy Stirling, Ian Scoones, Sobia Kaker, retrieved 17 February 2024
- ↑ Özkaynak, B., Turhan, E., Aydın, C. İ. (20 December 2023). "Just Transformations: Grassroots Struggles for Alternative Futures". In Rodríguez, I., Walter, M., Temper, L. ‘Mirror, Mirror on the Wall’: A Reflection on Engaged Just Transformations Research under Turkey’s Authoritarian Populist Regime. Pluto Press. pp. 80–102. Search this book on
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