TY  - GEN
AU  - Scoones,Ian
AU  - Stirling,Andy
AU  - Scoones,Ian
AU  - Stirling,Andy
TI  - The Politics of Uncertainty: Challenges of Transformation
T2  - Pathways to Sustainability
SN  - 9781003023845
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - Social and ethical issues
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Environmental policy and protocols
KW  - Communication studies
KW  - Business strategy
KW  - Civil engineering, surveying and building
KW  - Mechanical engineering
KW  - Risk assessment
KW  - Environment law
KW  - Environmental management
KW  - Environmentalist thought and ideology
KW  - Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business
KW  - Social impact of environmental issues
KW  - Environmental economics
KW  - Research methods: general
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Young Men
KW  - UK EU Relationship
KW  - spirituality
KW  - UK’s Reputation
KW  - natural disasters
KW  - BSE Crisis
KW  - migration
KW  - Van Zwanenberg
KW  - infectious disease responses
KW  - GE Crop
KW  - technology regulation
KW  - Societal Hope
KW  - Prevent Duty Guidance
KW  - Black Scholes Merton Formula
KW  - Energy Deprivation
KW  - Boda Bodas
KW  - Outbreak Preparedness
KW  - Small EU State
KW  - UK’s Exit
KW  - Good Life
KW  - Smart City
KW  - Parametric Insurance
KW  - UK Foreign Policy
KW  - NGO Participant
KW  - Mobility Paradox
KW  - Disaster Risk Management
KW  - Past Tense
KW  - Physical Science Perspective
KW  - Drought Insurance
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102622/1/9781000163445.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160437
ER  -