Title The Struggle for the Long-Term in Transnational Science and Politics : Forging the Future

Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (272 pages) Series Routledge Approaches to History Routledge approaches to history. Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Foreword; Introduction: Toward a New History of the Future; 1 Midwives of the Future: Futurism, Futures Studies and the Shaping of the Global Imagination; 2 Expertise for the Future: The Emergence of Environmental Prediction c. 1920-1970; 3 Energy Futures from the Social Market Economy to the Energiewende: The Politicization of West German Energy Debates, 1950-1990; 4 Technoscientific Cornucopian Futures versus Doomsday Futures: The World Models and The Limits to Growth 5 Toward a Joint Future beyond the Iron Curtain: East-West Politics of Global Modelling6 Forecasting the Post-Socialist Future: Prognostika in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia, 1970-1989; 7 Official and Unofficial Futures of the Communism System: Romanian Futures Studies between Control and Dissidence; 8 Virtually Nigeria: USAID, Simulated Futures, and the Politics of Postcolonial Expertise, 1964-1980; 9 Pan-Africanism, Socialism and the Future: Development Planning in Ghana, 1951-1966; Contributors; Index 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-industrialisat Notes Print version record Subject Science -- Forecasting -- History -- 20th century World politics -- Forecasting -- History -- 20th century Transnationalism -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century Social prediction -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century Forecasting -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century Historiography -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century World politics -- 1945-1989. Cold War. Social control -- History -- 20th century Government, Resistance to -- History -- 20th century BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. Government, Resistance to Historiography -- Political aspects Science -- Forecasting Social control World politics World politics -- Forecasting Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Rindzeviciute, Egle ISBN 9781317511458 131751145X

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