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The Politics and Science of Prevision: Governing and Probing the Future book cover

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The Politics and Science of Prevision Governing and Probing the Future

Edited By Andreas Wenger, Ursula Jasper, Myriam Dunn Cavelty Copyright 2020
272 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book inquires into the use of prediction at the intersection of politics and academia, and reflects upon the implications of future-oriented policy-making across different fields. The volume focuses on the key intricacies and fallacies of prevision in a time of complexity, uncertainty, and unpredictability. The first part of the book discusses different academic perspectives and... Read more

Part I: Introduction

1. Governing and Probing the Future: The Politics and Science of Prevision Andreas Wenger, Ursula Jasper, Myriam Dunn Cavelty

Part II: Academic Perspectives on Future-Oriented Policy-Making

2. Imagined Worlds: The Politics of Future-Making in the 21st Century Sheila Jasanoff

3. How to Know the Future – and the Past (and How Not): A Pragmatist Perspective on Foresight and Hindsight Gunther Hellmann

4. Future Thinking and Cognitive Distortions: Key Questions that Guide Forecasting Processes Michael C. Horowitz

5. Thinking Historically: A Guide for Policy Francis J. Gavin

6. From Predicting to Forecasting: Uncertainties, Scenarios and their (Un-)Intended Side Effects Myriam Dunn Cavelty

Part III: Empirical Perspectives across Policy Fields

7. Uncertainty and Precariousness at the Policy-Science Interface: Three Cases of Climate-Driven Adaptation Maria Carmen Lemos, Nicole Klenk

8. The Anticipative Medicalization of Life: Governing Future Risk and Uncertainty in (Global) Health Ursula Jasper

9. Crisis, What Crisis? Uncertainty, Risk, and Financial Markets Peter J. Katzenstein, Stephen C. Nelson

10. Imagining Future Biothreats: The Role of Popular Culture Filippa Lentzos, Jean-Baptiste Gouyon, Brian Balmer

11. Forecasting Civil War and Political Violence Corinne Bara

12. Predicting Nuclear Weapons Proliferation Jonas Schneider

13. ‘We Do that Once per Day’: Cyclical Futures and Institutional Ponderousness in Predictive Policing Matthias Leese

Part IV: Conclusion

14. The Politics and Science of the Future: Assembling Future Knowledge and Integrating It into Public Policy and Governance  Andreas Wenger, Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Ursula Jasper

Biography

Andreas Wenger is Professor of International and Swiss Security Policy and Director of the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Ursula Jasper is the Policy Officer at Fondation Botna in Switzerland. Prior to this she worked for many years as a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Myriam Dunn Cavelty is Deputy Head of Research and Teaching at the Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

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