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SUMMARY:The Politics of Uncertainty: Practical Challenges for Transformative Action
DESCRIPTION:This international academic symposium\, held at the Institute of Development Studies in the UK\, explored the theme of uncertainty – the STEPS Centre’s theme for 2019. \nBook | Blog series | Podcast | Video | Background info \n\nBook\nThe Politics of Uncertainty: Challenges of Transformation (Routledge\, July 2020) is an Open Access book which further explores the ideas discussed at the symposium. \nThe book features chapters by participants\, and an introduction by the editors (and symposium convenors)\, Ian Scoones and Andy Stirling. \nRead the book \n\nBlog series\nParticipants in the symposium reflect on the event in a series of blog posts. \n\nUncertain futures and the politics of uncertainty Richard Bronk\nUncertain superlatives Emery Roe\nWhen ignorance does more than you think Emery Roe\nSolidarity\, insurance\, emotions and uncertainty Mark Fenton-O’Creevy\nWhose risk? Whose responsibility? The politics and financialisation of uncertainty Nick Taylor\nEmbracing uncertainty: lessons from journeys and struggles Michele Nori\, Rose Cairns and Nathan Oxley\nInfrastructures of the imagination: uncertainty and the politics of prefiguration Martin Mahony and Silke Beck\nEnvisioning the future in the present: making sense of uncertainty Detlef Müller-Mahn\nHow can NGOs feel at home with uncertainty? Irene Guijt\n\nView the series \n\nPodcast\nThe STEPS Uncertainty Podcast is a series of four conversations recorded with participants after the symposium\, available as a podcast to stream or download. \nView/subscribe on iTunes \nEpisode #1: Finance & banking / insurance / governance\n \nWith Leon Wansleben (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies)\, Leigh Johnson (University of Oregon)\, Bernardo Rangoni (European University Institute)\, Ian Scoones (STEPS Centre) \n \nEpisode #2: Uncertainty in critical infrastructures / reliability / technology & innovation\n \nWith Patrick van Zwanenberg (CENIT\, Argentina)\, Emery Roe (University of California\, Berkeley)\, Andy Stirling (STEPS Centre) \n \nEpisode #3: Disease outbreaks / climate change / disasters\n \nWith Melissa Leach (Institute of Development Studies)\, Lyla Mehta (Institute of Development Studies)\, Mark Pelling (King’s College London)\, Marina Apgar (STEPS Centre) \n \nEpisode #4: Security & terrorism / migration\nWith Gabe Mythen (University of Liverpool)\, Dorte Thorsen (University of Sussex)\, Rose Cairns (STEPS Centre) \n \n\nVideo\nWatch a playlist of all videos from the symposium. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/embed?listType=playlist&list=PLI8qkz1i11OQNKD34R5WJzu8bhYUuoa24[/embedyt]\n\nVideo clips\nWatch selected clips from the symposium at the links below. \nPanel contributions: ‘What is uncertainty\, and why does it matter?’ \n Silvio Funtowicz: What is uncertainty\, and why does it matter? \n Sheila Jasanoff: What is uncertainty\, and why does it matter? \n Dipak Gyawali: What is uncertainty\, and why does it matter? \nPanel contributions: ‘What happened to the Risk Society?’ \n Gabe Mythen: What happened to the Risk Society? \n Joy Zhang: What happened to the Risk Society? \n Dean Curran: What happened to the Risk Society? \nVideo of full sessions \n What is uncertainty\, and why does it matter? (panel + Q&A – 93 min) \n What happened to the Risk Society? (panel + Q&A – 96 min) \n Final discussion: fishbowl (reflections on the conference – 76 min) \n\nAbout the symposium\nThinking across diverse domains – from finance\, to climate\, to migration\, to disease\, to innovation\, to infrastructure\, to security – this symposium will explore the diverse ways incertitude is understood and responded to (or not). \nBy catalysing and developing richer and more nuanced understandings of incertitude\, the symposium aims to help enable more robust actions\, strategies and governance for these uncertain times. \nFor updates\, please subscribe to the STEPS Centre newsletter. \n\n \nFor more images from the event\, see the photo gallery on Flickr. \nSpeakers\nPlenary speakers include \n\nDean Curran\, University of Calgary\nSheila Jasanoff\, Harvard Kennedy School\nSilvio Funtowicz\, University of Bergen\nGabe Mythen\, University of Liverpool\nDipak Gyawali\, Nepal Academy of Science and Technology\nBrian Wynne\, Emeritus Professor\, University of Lancaster\nJoy Zhang\, University of Kent\nSilke Beck\, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research\nMelissa Leach\, Institute of Development Studies\nLyla Mehta\, Institute of Development Studies\n\n\nProgramme\n3 July \n15:00 Registration opens\n16:00 PLENARY 1: What is uncertainty\, and why does it matter? Sheila Jasanoff\, Silvio Funtowicz\, Dipak Gyawali\n18:00 Refreshments + publication ‘speed launches’\n19:00 Dinner \n4 July \n9:00 CLUSTER SESSION (parallel session\, each cluster meets in different rooms) – presentations from first two themes\n11:00 Tea & coffee\n11:30 CLUSTER SESSION – presentations from third theme\n12:30 Lunch\n14:00 CLUSTER SESSION – cross-theme discussion: How is uncertainty understood? New directions and challenges\n15:30 Tea & coffee\n16:00 PLENARY 2: What happened to the risk society: multiple modernities and a new politics of uncertainty? Joy Zhang\, Brian Wynne\, Dean Curran\, Gabe Mythen\n18:00 Dinner & drinks \n5 July \n9:00 CLUSTER SESSION – Synthesis: What have we learned? Big questions and challenges\n11:00 Tea & coffee\n11:30 Feedback from clusters\, summaries\, reflections\n13:30 Lunch\n14:30 PLENARY 3: Uncertainty and transformations\, challenges for science\, policy and politics Lyla Mehta\, Silke Beck\, Melissa Leach (+ reflections in ‘fishbowl’ format)\n16:00 Tea & coffee\, departures \n\nthemes and clusters\nThe symposium is organised into four Clusters. Each Cluster includes three themes\, convened by a researcher (the Theme Convenor) with expertise on that theme. \nIn each theme\, participants have been invited by the Theme Convenor to give presentations.  The document below gives abstracts for all 12 of the themes. \nDownload the  theme abstracts (PDF) \n– – \nCluster 1 \n\nFinance and banking (Leon Wansleben\, Max Plank Institute for the Study of Societies\, Cologne\, and Timo Walter\, University of Erfurt)\nInsurance and liability (Leigh Johnson\, University of Oregon)\nExperimental\, nodal\, adaptive governance (Bernardo Rangoni\, European University Institute\, Florence)\n\nDownload abstracts from Cluster 1 (PDF) \n– – \nCluster 2 \n\nTechnology policy\, regulation and precaution (Patrick van Zwanenberg\, CENIT\, Argentina)\nCritical infrastructures and reliability (Emery Roe\, UC Berkeley)\nExpanding cities (James Evans\, University of Manchester)\n\nDownload Abstracts from Cluster 2 (PDF) \n– – \nCluster 3 \n\nClimate change models and response (Lyla Mehta and Shilpi Srivastava\, Institute of Development Studies\, Sussex)\nDisease outbreaks and preparedness (Melissa Leach and Hayley MacGregor\, Institute of Development Studies\, Sussex)\nDisasters\, humanitarianism and emergencies (Mark Pelling\, King’s College London)\n\nDownload abstracts from Cluster 3 (PDF) \n– – \nCluster 4 \n\nMigration and mobility (Dorte Thorsen\, University of Sussex)\nConflict\, security\, terrorism and crime (Gabe Mythen\, University of Liverpool)\nCulture\, religion and perception (Rose Cairns\, SPRU\, University of Sussex)\n\nDownload abstracts from cluster 4 (PDF) \n\nBackground\nThis event is part of the STEPS Centre’s 2019 theme on Uncertainty. \nThinking across diverse domains – from finance\, to climate\, to migration\, to disease\, to innovation\, to infrastructure\, to security – this symposium will explore the diverse ways incertitude is understood and responded to (or not). \nBy catalysing and developing richer and more nuanced understandings of incertitude\, the symposium aims to help enable more robust actions\, strategies and governance for these uncertain times. In the ‘real world’ of policy and business\, the full depth and breadth of challenges presented by the unknown are rarely fully acknowledged – and virtually never embraced. But this does not stop them being a familiar aspect of the worlds of Nature\, politics and everyday life. \nDiverse framings\, degrees and contexts of ‘incertitude’ can be far more intractable and politically entangled than suggested by a technical language of ‘uncertainty’ or the reassuring methods around ‘risk’. \nWhen unfathomed dimensions and possibilities of ignorance are treated as neatly parameterised ‘uncertainty’\, then the resulting decisions can be seriously jeopardised by what has been excluded. When expectations are further closed down by the seductive aggregations of ’risk’ then the vulnerabilities are even more severe. There is no technical specialism so narrow that diverse equally expert views will not disagree\, generating pervasive ‘ambiguity’. \nBut highlighting these wilder and more unruly forms of incertitude is not just a counsel of fear. These conventional blinkers on the imagination can also obscure many positive hopes and possibilities. Surprises\, after all\, can be good as well as bad. Pervading economies\, societies\, environments and technologies\, the implications can be appreciated across a wide range of political cultures. \nThinking across diverse domains – from finance\, to climate\, to migration\, to disease\, to innovation\, to infrastructure\, to security – this symposium will explore the diverse ways incertitude is understood and responded to (or not). The aim is to catalyse and develop richer and more nuanced understandings of incertitude and so help enable more robust actions\, strategies and governance. \nIn particular\, the implications will be examined of complementing existing narrow ‘control-driven’\, managerialist frameworks\, with complementary ‘care-oriented’ approaches\, that are more open\, adaptive and responsive. Drawing on concepts and experiences from diverse disciplines and fields of practice\, attention will span implications equally for individual behaviours and organisational strategies\, as well as societal responses – with the politics of knowledge central throughout. \n\nThis symposium is the main event in the STEPS Centre’s Uncertainty theme in 2019. \nUncertainties can make it hard to plan ahead. But recognising them can help to reveal new questions and choices. What kinds of uncertainty are there\, why do they matter for sustainability\, and what ideas\, approaches and methods can help us to respond to them? \nFind out more about our theme for 2019 on our Uncertainty theme page.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/the-politics-of-uncertainty-practical-challenges-for-transformative-action/
LOCATION:Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Governance & policy,Understanding sustainability
ORGANIZER;CN="ESRC STEPS Centre":MAILTO:b.ayre@ids.ac.uk
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