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The Struggle for the Long-Term in Transnational Science and Politics - Forging the Future (Hardcover)
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The Struggle for the Long-Term in Transnational Science and Politics - Forging the Future (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Approaches to History
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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.
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