Dear all,
we are very pleased to announce that our special issue The Politics of
Anticipatory Expertise
has just
been published in Science & Technology Studies.
Content:
The special issue starts from the observation that anticipatory expertise –
produced with the help of models, scenarios and computer simulations - has
become an indispensable core ingredient of contemporary attempts to govern
complex problems. At the same time, it has also become a field of
contention, wherein a variety of technologies of knowledge production,
social groups, and visions of the future coexist and compete. We build on
ongoing scholarly discussions about anticipatory knowledge and its
‘performativity’, while also setting out to take a fresh look at the
politics of anticipatory expertise. The papers in the special issue span a
variety of governance scales (local, national, global), country cases (the
US and the European Union, France, Germany and Belize) and policy domains
(energy, climate, agriculture and food policy, risk regulation, forest and
water management, policing). Taken together, they illustrate the
productivity of a perspective that combines STS and political sociology to
gain a finer-grained understanding of anticipatory expertise in public
policy.
All best,
Stefan Aykut
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Prof. Dr. Stefan C. AykutJuniorprofessor für Soziologie, Universität
Hamburg
https://uni-hamburg.academia.edu/StefanAykut
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