Screen LibraryThe struggle for the long-term in transnational science and politics : forging the future /
"This book reconsiders the power of the idea of the future. Bringing together perspectives from cultural history, environmental history, political history and the history of science, it investigates how the future became a specific field of action in liberal democratic, state socialist and post...
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge approaches to history ;
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"This book reconsiders the power of the idea of the future. Bringing together perspectives from cultural history, environmental history, political history and the history of science, it investigates how the future became a specific field of action in liberal democratic, state socialist and post-colonial regimes after the Second World War. It highlights the emergence of new forms of predictive scientific expertise in this period, and shows how such forms of expertise interacted with political systems of the Cold War world order, as the future became the prism for dealing with post-industriali "By bringing together authors from different historical perspectives around a set of studies on the multifaceted history of prediction, forecasting and futures studies, this book calls for the need to reconsider the power of the idea of the future in historical writing. The authors of this volume share an interest in the ambiguous role played by the future, both for consolidating post war regimes of power and control, and for mobilizing crucial forms of dissent and visions of change. It is, therefore, the ambivalent and fundamentally powered role of the future that is at the center of this v |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781138858534 1138858536 |
| Index Number: | Q172 |
| CLC: | G303-09 |
| Call Number: | G303-09/S927 |
| Contents: | Foreword / Michael D. Gordin -- Introduction: Toward a New History of the Future / Jenny Andersson and Egle Rindzeviciute -- Midwives of the Future : Futurism, Futures Studies and the Shaping of the Global Imagination / Jenny Andersson -- Expertise for the Future : The Emergence of Environmental Prediction, c. 1920-1970 / Paul Warde and Sverker Sorlin -- Energy Futures from the Social Market Economy to the Energiewende : The Politicization of West German Energy Debates, 1950-1990 / Stefan Cihan Aykut -- Technoscientific Cornucopian Futures versus Doomsday Futures : The World Models and The L |