Governing and Probing the Future

The Politics and Science of Prevision

Author(s): Andreas Wenger, Ursula Jasper, Myriam Dunn Cavelty
Editor(s): Andreas Wenger, Ursula Jasper, Myriam Dunn Cavelty
Book Title: The Politics and Science of Prevision. Governing and Probing the Future
Publisher(s): Routledge
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Place: London

Foreseeing and preparing for possible future developments is a key task for policy-makers, bureaucrats and scholars alike. This chapter by Andreas Wenger, Ursula Jasper and Myriam Dunn argues, that governing the future is not a straightforward task, but fraught with epistemological and scientific, power-political and democratic as well as ethical questions. The authors provide an account of varying imaginaries of a possible futures and of the possibilities of human control in different socio-spatial contexts.

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