Uncertainty (Boston Review / Forum) Paperback ? December 28, 2021

Jasanoff Et Al, Sheila

ISBN 10: 1946511668 / ISBN 13: 9781946511669

Published by Boston Review, 2022

Seller Inventory # 26384683419

Synopsis:

Nearly two years into a global pandemic, uncertainty has profoundly unsettled both our personal and political lives. Some of its sources are epistemic: How long will vaccine immunity last? Do rising prices threaten economic recovery? Others are sharply existential: How will I pay rent next month? Will I see my loved one again? At no other moment in the twenty-first century has there been such widespread unease about what the future holds.
Uncertainty is perhaps never more consequential than where it intersects with political power. Leading this issue’s forum, Sheila Jasanoff, pioneering scholar of science and technology studies, argues that public policy could benefit from a much more serious acknowledgment of uncertainty. In place of the hubris of technocratic expertise, Jasanoff calls for “technologies of humility”—institutional mechanisms, including greater citizen participation, for incorporating a wider range of experience and views in our schemes of democratic governance. Respondents to Jasanoff consider other causes of pandemic mismanagement and ask whether humility is the best response.

About the Author: Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. She is the author of Can Science Make Sense of Life? and other books and the coeditor of Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2004).

Bibliographic Details

Title: Uncertainty (Boston Review / Forum) ...
Publisher: Boston Review
Publication Date: 2022
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New