TY - BOOK ID - 64931212 TI - The politics and science of prevision : governing and probing the future AU - Wenger, Andreas AU - Jasper, Ursula AU - Dunn Cavelty, Myriam PY - 2020 SN - 1003022421 0367900742 9781003022428 9781000088328 1000088324 9781000088366 1000088367 9781000088342 1000088340 9780367900748 PB - Taylor & Francis DB - UniCat KW - Policy sciences. KW - Forecasting. KW - Human security KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration KW - Non-traditional security (Human security) KW - NTS (Human security) KW - Security, Human KW - Human rights KW - Forecasts KW - Futurology KW - Prediction KW - Policy-making KW - Policymaking KW - Public policy management KW - bio-weapons KW - climate change KW - epistemology KW - forecasting KW - governance KW - health care KW - healthcare KW - nuclear weapons KW - policy-making KW - prevision UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:64931212 AB - "This book inquires into the use of prediction at the intersection of politics and academia, and reflects upon the implications of future-oriented policymaking 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 contributions to future-oriented policymaking. The second part discusses the role of future knowledge in decision-making across different empirical issues such as climate, health, finance, bio- and nuclear weapons, civil war, and crime. It analyses how prediction is integrated into public policy and governance, and how in return governance structures influence the making of knowledge about the future. Contributors integrate two analytical dimensions in their chapters- the epistemology of prevision and the political and ethical implications of prevision. In this way, the volume contributes to a better understanding of the complex interaction and feedback loops between the processes of creating knowledge about the future and the application of this future knowledge in public policy and governance. This book will be of much interest to students of security studies, political science, sociology, technology studies and IR"-- ER -