The Politics of Uncertainty Challenges of Transformation
- Oxford Taylor & Francis 2020
- 1 electronic resource (196 p.)
- Pathways to Sustainability .
Open Access
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.
Social and ethical issues Environmental policy and protocols Communication studies Business strategy Civil engineering, surveying and building Mechanical engineering Risk assessment Environment law Environmental management Environmentalist thought and ideology Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business Social impact of environmental issues Environmental economics Research methods: general Politics and government Sociology
Young Men UK EU Relationship spirituality UK’s Reputation natural disasters BSE Crisis migration Van Zwanenberg infectious disease responses GE Crop technology regulation Societal Hope Prevent Duty Guidance Black Scholes Merton Formula Energy Deprivation Boda Bodas Outbreak Preparedness Small EU State UK’s Exit Good Life Smart City Parametric Insurance UK Foreign Policy NGO Participant Mobility Paradox Disaster Risk Management Past Tense Physical Science Perspective Drought Insurance