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Author:   Jenny Andersson ,  Eglė Rindzevičiūtė (Kingston University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   11
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9781138858534

ISBN 10:   1138858536
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   21 April 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Foreword Michael D. Gordin Introduction: Toward a New History of the Future Jenny Andersson and Eglė Rindzevičiūtė 1. Midwives of the Future: Futurism, Futures Studies and the Shaping of the Global Imagination Jenny Andersson 2. Expertise for the Future: The Emergence of Environmental Prediction c.1920-1970 Paul Warde and Sverker Sörlin 3. Energy Futures from the Social Market Economy to the Energiewende: The Politicization of West German Energy Debates, 1950-1990 Stefan Cihan Aykut 4. Technoscientific Cornucopian Futures versus Doomsday Futures: The World Models and The Limits to Growth Elodie Vieille-Blanchard 5. Towards a Joint Future Beyond the Iron Curtain: East-West Politics of Global Modelling Eglė Rindzevičiūtė 6. Forecasting the Post-Socialist Future: Prognostika in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia, 1970–1989 Vítězslav Sommer 7. Official and Unofficial Futures of the Communism System: Romanian Futures Studies Between Control and Dissidence Ana-Maria Cătănuş 8. Virtually Nigeria: USAID, Simulated Futures, and the Politics of Postcolonial Expertise, 1964-1980 Kevin Baker 9. Pan-Africanism, Socialism and the Future: Development Planning in Ghana, 1951-1966 Jeff Grischow and Holger Weiss

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Jenny Andersson is CNRS research professor at the Center for European Studies of Sciences po, Paris. Eglė Rindzevičiūtė is a researcher at the Center for European Studies of Sciences po, Paris, and Associate Professor in Culture Studies at Linköping University, Sweden.

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