Precaution, Preemption
Arts and Technologies of the Actionable Future
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4476515 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marieke De Goede (0000-0001-5726-1795, University of Amsterdam), Samuel Randall (0000-0002-9927-3919, Department of Geography, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, England) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 859-878 |
| Publication date | 2009-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d2608 |
| OpenAlex | W2082509022 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 111 |
| References cited | 64 |
Terrorism and climate change are frequently perceived as 'total threats' articulated and imagined through a wide array of arts and technologies. If the construction of these threats appears similar then so are the pleas for preemptive and precautionary action. In this paper we explore the ways in which terrorism and climate change are imagined, drawing on a conjoined history in which preemption and precaution are not easily separable. We then trace this through the knowledges, models, and ideas of risk that inform contemporary debates on these issues and suggest that these are caught between a desire for rationality and affective governance through catastrophic visions. Furthermore, we argue that these imaginations of an actionable future have political consequences that depoliticize and delegitimate debate and that potentially bring the unimaginable into being. Reconceiving precautionary politics is thus vital if we are to engage ethically with the world
Action (physics · Business · Corporate governance · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Preemption · Rationality · Sociology · Terrorism · The arts · Vision · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Computer Science · Law · Risk Perception and Management · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
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Preemption contested
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Planning for the worst
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Premediation
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Risk and the War on Terror
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Risks of communication
Laws of Fear
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War against the Center
The historical roots of precautionary thinking
The precautionary principle and the rhetoric behind it
Precaution Against Terrorism
The London Bombers as “Self-Starters”
Liberal Ends, Illiberal Means
Neither sustainable nor development
Security and climate change
Uncertainty and environmental learning 1, 2Reconceiving science and policy in the preventive paradigm
Picturing the Clima(c)tic
The Sustainable Development Paradox
Fatal Transactions
Interpreting the precautionary principle
Science for the post-normal age
Transactions after 9/11
Hope for nanotechnology
Theory, culture and society
The Construction of Global Warming and the Politics of Science
The Precautionary Principle and its Policy Implications
Governing Terrorism Through Risk
Beyond Risk
The neurotic citizen
Meteorology as Infrastructural Globalism
The Global Situation
Pre-empting Emergence
Defending Ways of Life
Spectacular Security
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Governable catastrophes
Catastrophe risk
| Unique citing works | 111 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,53 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 109 |