The Politics of Uncertainty Challenges of Transformation

• Main Authors: Scoones, Ian, Stirling, Andy
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2020; Taylor and Francis; No Funder Information Available; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Pathways to Sustainability
• Subjects: Black Scholes Merton Formula; Boda Bodas; BSE Crisis; Business; Business & Economics; Business and Management; Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business; Business strategy; Civil engineering, surveying and building; Communication studies; Decision theory: general; Disaster Risk Management; Drought Insurance; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Ecology; Economics; Economics of specific sectors; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; Energy Deprivation; Environment law; Environment, transport and planning law: general; Environmental economics; Environmental management; Environmental Policy; Environmental policy and protocols; Environmental Studies; Environmentalist thought and ideology; Finance; Financial economics; Financial Risk Management; GE Crop; Good Life; infectious disease responses; Interdisciplinary studies; Law; Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law; Mechanical engineering; Mechanical engineering and materials; migration; Mobility Paradox; natural disasters; Nature; NGO Participant; Nonfiction; Outbreak Preparedness; Parametric Insurance; Past Tense; Physical Science Perspective; Politics and government; Prevent Duty Guidance; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; Research methods: general; Risk; Risk assessment; Small EU State; Smart City; Social and ethical issues; Social impact of environmental issues; Social Science; Societal Hope; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; spirituality; technology regulation; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; The environment; UK EU Relationship; UK Foreign Policy; UK’s Exit; UK’s Reputation; Van Zwanenberg; Young Men; NGO Participant; Smart City; Good Life; Societal Hope; GE Crop; Parametric Insurance; BSE Crisis; Techno Managerial Solutions; Disaster Risk Management; Small EU State; UK Foreign Policy; Young Men; Physical Science Perspective; Energy Deprivation; Mobility Paradox; Van Zwanenberg; Prevent Duty Guidance; Black Scholes Merton Formula; Past Tense; Drought Insurance; Boda Bodas; Outbreak Preparedness; UK EU Relationship; UK’s Exit; UK’s Reputation
• ISBN: 100016344X; 9781000163445; 0367903350; 9780367903350; 0367903377; 9780367903374; 1000163369; 1003023843; 9781000163407; 1000163407; 9781000163360; 9781003023845
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003023845

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.