Uncertainty by Design : : Preparing for the Future with Scenario Technology / / Limor Samimian-Darash.
In Uncertainty by Design Limor Samimian-Darash presents cases of the use of scenario technology in the fields of security and emergency preparedness, energy, and health by analyzing scenario narratives and practices at the National Emergency Management Authority in Israel, the World Health Organizat...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (204 p.) :; 9 b&w halftones, 5 charts |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Uncertainty, Scenarios, and the Future -- 1. Chronicity: The Problematization of Scenario Thinking -- 2. Narrative Building: Imagining Plausible Futures -- 3. Exercising: Practicing the Unexpected -- 4. Subjectivation: Embracing Uncertainty -- 5. Simulations: Possibilities and Responses -- 6. Scenarios, Temporality, and Uncertainty -- 7. Conclusions and Critical Limitations -- Epilogue: Scenarios and the Dynamics between Science and Imagination -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Summary: | In Uncertainty by Design Limor Samimian-Darash presents cases of the use of scenario technology in the fields of security and emergency preparedness, energy, and health by analyzing scenario narratives and practices at the National Emergency Management Authority in Israel, the World Health Organization's Regional Office for Europe, and the World Energy Council. Humankind has long struggled with the uncertainty of the future, with how to foresee the future, imagine alternatives, or prepare for and guard against undesirable eventualities. Scenario—or scenario planning—emerged in recent decades to become a widespread means through which states, large corporations, and local organizations imagine and prepare for the future. The scenario technology cases examined in Uncertainty by Design provide a useful lens through which to view contemporary efforts to engage in an overall journey of discovering the future, along with the modality of governing involved in these endeavors to face future uncertainties. Collectively, they enable us to understand in depth how scenarios express a new governing modality. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781501762482 9783110751826 9783110993899 9783110994810 9783110993950 9783110994186 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781501762482?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Limor Samimian-Darash. |