Situational awareness across different temporalities
Scenario Exercises for Health, Security and Energy Futures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7737535 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Limor Samimian-Darash (0000-0002-2659-5829, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 6-20 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Studies on Security (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2162-4887 • E-ISSN: 2162-4909 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21624887.2024.2383802 |
| OpenAlex | W4401032507 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 36 |
This article looks at the concept of situational awareness in the context of scenario planning. It draws on three cases in which scenarios are used – scenario-based Turning Point exercises in Israel, which focus on security and emergency situations; health scenarios and simulations conducted by the World Health Organization's Regional Office for Europe; and energy scenarios in the World Energy Council – and examines the different ways in which situational awareness is manifested in these scenarios. In WHO scenarios, situational awareness is initially intricately connected to specific details of the situation described in the scenario, triggering a predefined model for reporting and responding to health crises. In Turning Point scenarios, however, the use of situational awareness not only activates a predetermined response but also encourages critical thinking about the broader context of the event and the important questions and challenges that arise from it. In the WEC scenarios, situational awareness is directed towards potential future changes and developments by creating rich narratives of plausible futures that enable engagement with the future. The analysis shows that the particular temporality of the context in which the scenario technology is used affects the way in which situational awareness is manifested in each case
Business · Epistemology · Futures contract · Futures studies · Knowledge management · Political science · Public relations · Scenario analysis · Scenario planning · Situation awareness · Situational ethics · Temporalities · Temporality · Computer Science · Engineering · Global Security and Public Health · Health and Conflict Studies · Psychology · Risk Perception and Management · Social Psychology · Marketing
Elusive Promises
The Good Life
Contemporary Futures
Introduction
Observations on Modernity
The Politics of Life Itself
Exhausted Futures
Beyond good and evil
Students’ narratives of the future
Performing preemption
Anticipating emergencies
Situational awareness’
Security and the performative politics of resilience
The triangle of security governance
Beyond temporality
Modes of Uncertainty
Mining Temporalities
Ice Cores and the Temporalities of the Global Environment
Precaution, Preemption
It's exhausting to create an event out of nothing
Practicing Uncertainty
Inverting the Panopticon
Governing the future through scenaristic and simulative modalities of imagination
Future Emergencies
Turbulent Worlds
Time as Technique
Governing through time
A wedge of time
Governing Future Potential Biothreats
Governing insecurity
Enacting catastrophe
Looking Forward, Looking Back
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |