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008 150316s2015 nyua b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9781138858534 (hardback)
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020 $z9781315717920 (ebook)
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050 00 $aQ172$b.S77 2015
082 00 $a338.9/26$223
084 $aHIS037030$aHIS010000$aHIS039000$2bisacsh
245 04 $aThe struggle for the long-term in transnational science and politics :$bforging the future /$cedited by Jenny Andersson and Eglė Rindzevičiūtė.
264 1 $aNew York :$bRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group,$c2015.
300 $axv, 255 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aRoutledge approaches to history ;$v11
520 2 $a"This book reconsiders the power of the idea of the future. Bringing together perspectives from cultural history, environmental history, political history and the history of science, it investigates how the future became a specific field of action in liberal democratic, state socialist and post-colonial regimes after the Second World War. It highlights the emergence of new forms of predictive scientific expertise in this period, and shows how such forms of expertise interacted with political systems of the Cold War world order, as the future became the prism for dealing with post-industrialisation, technoscientific progress, changing social values, Cold War tensions and an emerging Third World. A forgotten problem of cultural history, the future re-emerges in this volume as a fundamentally contested field in which forms of control and central forms of resistance met, as different actors set out to colonise and control and others to liberate. The individual studies of this book show how the West European, African, Romanian and Czechoslovak 'long term' was constructed through forms of expertise, computer simulations and models, and they reveal how such constructions both opened up new realities but also imposed limits on possible futures"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 2 $a"By bringing together authors from different historical perspectives around a set of studies on the multifaceted history of prediction, forecasting and futures studies, this book calls for the need to reconsider the power of the idea of the future in historical writing. The authors of this volume share an interest in the ambiguous role played by the future, both for consolidating post war regimes of power and control, and for mobilizing crucial forms of dissent and visions of change. It is, therefore, the ambivalent and fundamentally powered role of the future that is at the center of this volume. Specifically, the chapters in this volume are held together by their interest in how post war understandings of the future were constituted by particular forms of prediction and future expertise, and in the role played by these in exercising power over time. Drawing from insights in cultural, social, political, environmental and science history, our book thus aims to rethink the future as a historical category, and set the search light on the emergence of particular forms of future knowledge that set the future as a distinct temporal field in the post war period"--$cIntroduction.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aForeword / 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.
650 0 $aScience$xForecasting$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWorld politics$xForecasting$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aTransnationalism$xPolitical aspects$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aSocial prediction$xPolitical aspects$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aForecasting$xPolitical aspects$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aHistoriography$xPolitical aspects$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWorld politics$y1945-1989.
650 0 $aCold War.
650 0 $aSocial control$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aGovernment, Resistance to$xHistory$y20th century.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Modern / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Europe / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Civilization.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aAndersson, Jenny,$d1974-
700 1 $aRindzevičiūtė, Eglė.