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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
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@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."

@IanScoones @SPRU @IDS_UK @ESRC @SussexGlobal @SussexDev @PASTRES_erc @ERC_Research @SciSq "With risk, clear control-based management is possible. Models, designs and plans all provide support for a rational, directed response. With uncertainty, you cannot predict, and different responses must follow."

@IanScoones @SPRU @IDS_UK @ESRC @SussexGlobal @SussexDev @PASTRES_erc @ERC_Research @SciSq "But we must recognise that there are those, by both necessity and choice, who are already living with and off uncertainty, from whom we can learn."

@IanScoones @SPRU @IDS_UK @ESRC @SussexGlobal @SussexDev @PASTRES_erc @ERC_Research @SciSq Follow our #PoliticsOfUncertainty symposium (3-5 July)

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