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Taming an Uncertain Future: Temporality, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Anticipatory Governance

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Full Title:

Taming an Uncertain Future: Temporality, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Anticipatory Governance

Contributors:
ISBN:

9781783485000

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Rowman & Littlefield International

Publication Date:

16th December 2015

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Social forecasting, future studies

Dewey:

327.1

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

198

Dimensions:

Width 160mm, Height 235mm, Spine 20mm

Weight:

485g

Description

A popular clich in contemporary public discourse holds that we live in a time of increasing uncertainty; that the next catastrophe is perpetually imminent and yet increasingly beyond our capacity to foresee. The future, in short, is becoming much more difficult to control. One consequence of this increasingly widespread understanding of the future is that societies have turned to anticipatory governance strategies based on such concepts as risk management, the precautionary principle, and pre-emption to manage human affairs. This book takes an in-depth look at this trend by using the example of the pre-emptive security strategies deployed in the post-9/11 War on Terror to develop a critical understanding of how the proliferation of such anticipatory governance strategies affects the way political power is organized and exercised. The book also makes a wider case for taking issues of time and the future more seriously in the study of contemporary global politics in particular and the social world more generally.

Author Bio

Liam P. D. Stockdale is a Postdoctoral Fellow jointly appointed to the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition and the Institute for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching and Learning at McMaster University, Canada.

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