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NEW BLOG POST: Uncertain superlatives
Guest post by Emery Roe in our #PoliticsOfUncertainty series, exploring *certainty* and how it can create the belief that a choice made is 'superlative' (i.e. the 'best, superior or optimal course of action')
steps-centre.org/blog/uncertain…
Guest post by Emery Roe in our #PoliticsOfUncertainty series, exploring *certainty* and how it can create the belief that a choice made is 'superlative' (i.e. the 'best, superior or optimal course of action')
steps-centre.org/blog/uncertain…
"A key part of the challenge of a politics of uncertainty is to insist superior and superlative are still achievable, and not in a diminished sense of the economist’s 'second best.'"
"Certainty can truly mislead... Nothing quite smacks of certainty as do habits, inhibitions and defense mechanisms."
BLOG: Uncertain futures and the politics of uncertainty steps-centre.org/blog/uncertain…
Guest post by Richard Bronk of @LSEEI #PoliticsOfUncertainty
Guest post by Richard Bronk of @LSEEI #PoliticsOfUncertainty
@LSEEI "Imagination is both the ultimate cause of much of the uncertainty we face and our best tool for coping with it."
@LSEEI "When the world is uncertain, you cannot know what the best model will be, and the past may not be a good guide to the future....
How do you form expectations and decide how to act despite this uncertainty?"
How do you form expectations and decide how to act despite this uncertainty?"
Andy Stirling @SPRU introduces a session for all ‘clusters’ at #PoliticsOfUncertainty to share key themes & insights 
@SPRU @IDS_UK @ESRC @SussexDev Some key points from a group on finance, insurance, governance... Models are often used to create actions & decisions in the present - perhaps more important than whether they give us accurate picture of what will happen in the future #PoliticsOfUncertainty
@SPRU @IDS_UK @ESRC @SussexDev "Almost all major catastrophes now involve an element of human responsibility and the potential for changing the outcome." Assigning blame can be both necessary and very fraught & difficult. #PoliticsOfUncertainty
Herders for hire: "The shift from household labour to an external, salaried workforce in herding activities is reshaping pastoralists’ responses to uncertainties."
New post on the @PASTRES_erc blog by Michele Nori @EuropeanUni @IDS_UK
New post on the @PASTRES_erc blog by Michele Nori @EuropeanUni @IDS_UK
@PASTRES_erc @EuropeanUni @IDS_UK Relevant to our #PoliticsOfUncertainty conference - today's sessions are about what uncertainty means, and how different groups & people can respond to it
Brian Wynne: Ulrich Beck in the 'Risk Society' described the qualities & intensity of risks in late modernity. A central point is that some of these risks are not measurable, we can't get a grip on them; their scale & scope is unknown; they're uninsurable #PoliticsOfUncertainty
Insurance is deeply entrenched: the key precondition is that we can agree on a measurement of the risk involved. The nuclear case was the first where US govt had to place a limit on the liabilities from nuclear accident - the Price-Anderson Act #PoliticsOfUncertainty
Brian Wynne "Institutions in late modernity are busy undermining themselves from the inside." Faced with non-knowledge and uncontrollability, institutions effectively deny that lack of control and the indeterminacy in the systems that produce those risks
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Responding to #uncertainty: who are the experts? steps-centre.org/blog/respondin…
New blog post from @IanScoones ahead of our #PoliticsOfUncertainty event on 3-5 July
(pic: alistairh/Flickr)
New blog post from @IanScoones ahead of our #PoliticsOfUncertainty event on 3-5 July
(pic: alistairh/Flickr)
@IanScoones @SPRU @IDS_UK @ESRC @SussexGlobal @SussexDev @PASTRES_erc @ERC_Research @SciSq "Zimbabweans have become experts at responding to uncertainty.... Layered uncertainties intersect in an increasingly complex setting. Improvisation, experimentation, adaptation, negotiation are the watchwords."
@IanScoones @SPRU @IDS_UK @ESRC @SussexGlobal @SussexDev @PASTRES_erc @ERC_Research @SciSq "Whether it’s climate chaos, collapse of financial systems, mass migrations, epidemic disease outbreaks or unravelling political settlements, uncertainties are everywhere. And the old systems of control & order–what James Scott called ‘seeing like a state’–no longer function."
Mini-thread: Uncertainty is part of life, and it matters a *lot* for sustainability!
Ahead of our #PoliticsOfUncertainty symposium, some resources on why we need to think about uncertainty and how we can respond to it...
(Event page: steps-centre.org/event/the-poli…)
Ahead of our #PoliticsOfUncertainty symposium, some resources on why we need to think about uncertainty and how we can respond to it...
(Event page: steps-centre.org/event/the-poli…)
Paper by @IanScoones: 'What is Uncertainty and Why Does it Matter?'
- what uncertainty *is*
- what it means for society, politics, culture, practice & individuals; for finance, infrastructure, disease, climate and disasters
- useful methods & approaches
steps-centre.org/publication/wh…
- what uncertainty *is*
- what it means for society, politics, culture, practice & individuals; for finance, infrastructure, disease, climate and disasters
- useful methods & approaches
steps-centre.org/publication/wh…
@IanScoones Blog post: Politics in the language of uncertainty.
Why does uncertainty often get closed down to 'risk', and what are the dangers of overstating confidence in probabilities? by Andy Stirling @SPRU
steps-centre.org/blog/politics-…
(image: flic.kr/p/dcwaNj)
Why does uncertainty often get closed down to 'risk', and what are the dangers of overstating confidence in probabilities? by Andy Stirling @SPRU
steps-centre.org/blog/politics-…
(image: flic.kr/p/dcwaNj)
