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The struggle for the long-term in transnational science and politics : forging the future / edited by Jenny Andersson and Eglė Rindzevičiūtė.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge approaches to history ; 11.
- Routledge approaches to history ; 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Forecasting--History--20th century.
- Science.
- World politics--Forecasting--History--20th century.
- World politics.
- Transnationalism--Political aspects--History--20th century.
- Transnationalism.
- Social prediction--Political aspects--History--20th century.
- Social prediction.
- Forecasting--Political aspects--History--20th century.
- Forecasting.
- Historiography--Political aspects--History--20th century.
- Historiography.
- World politics--1945-1989.
- Cold War.
- Social control--History--20th century.
- Social control.
- Government, Resistance to--History--20th century.
- Government, Resistance to.
- History.
- Historiography--Political aspects.
- World politics--Forecasting.
- Science--Forecasting.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 255 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
- Summary:
- "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-industrialisation, technoscientific progress, changing social values, Cold War tensions and an emerging Third World. A forgotten problem of cultural history, the future re-emerges in this volume as a fundamentally contested field in which forms of control and central forms of resistance met, as different actors set out to colonise and control and others to liberate. The individual studies of this book show how the West European, African, Romanian and Czechoslovak 'long term' was constructed through forms of expertise, computer simulations and models, and they reveal how such constructions both opened up new realities but also imposed limits on possible futures"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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 Sörlin
- 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 Limits to Growth / Elodie Vieille Blanchard
- Towards a Joint Future Beyond the Iron Curtain : East-West Politics of Global Modelling / Egle Rindzeviciute
- Forecasting the Post-Socialist Future : Prognostika in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia, 1970-1989 / Vítezslav Sommer
- Official and Unofficial Futures of the Communism System : Romanian Futures Studies Between Control and Dissidence / Ana-Maria Catanus
- Virtually Nigeria : USAID, Simulated Futures, and the Politics of Postcolonial Expertise, 1964-1980 / Kevin T. Baker
- Pan-Africanism, Socialism and the Future : Development Planning in Ghana, 1951-1966 / Jeff Grischow and Holger Weiss.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781138858534
- 1138858536
- OCLC:
- 892459242
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