Preemption, precaution, preparedness: Anticipatory action and future geographies
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- 9 April 2010
- journal article
- other
- Published by SAGE Publications in Progress in Human Geography
- Vol. 34 (6) , 777-798
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132510362600
Abstract
The paper focuses on how futures are anticipated and acted on in relation to a set of events that are taken to threaten liberal democracies. Across different domains of life the future is now problematized as a disruption, a surprise. This problematization of the future as indeterminate or uncertain has been met with an extraordinary proliferation of anticipatory action. The paper argues that anticipatory action works through the assembling of: styles through which the form of the future is disclosed and related to; practices that render specific futures present; and logics through which anticipatory action is legitimized, guided and enacted.Keywords
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