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Knowing doing governing: realizing heterodyne democracies

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posted on 2023-06-09, 03:39 authored by Andrew StirlingAndrew Stirling
Global politics is blighted by frustrated needs for transformation (Scoones et al. 2015), but it is also invigorated by the associated hopes. Either way, the many widely acknowledged (but persistently neglected) imperatives centre around poverty and oppression, inequality and injustice, climate change, ecological destruction, toxic pollution, nuclear risks and all the obscenity and waste of war (UNESCO/ICSU 2009; UNEP 2012; Griggs et al. 2013; UN 2013; UNDP 2013). Despite the formidable material drivers, every one of these scourges is socially constituted. And — although progress remains painfully slow at best — history shows all to be politically remediable. So, each imperative presents a defining challenge, spanning all the multivalent aspirations and possibilities for what might count as ‘human progress’. What then could be more compelling as focal priorities — equally in the knowing and the doing of ‘governance’.

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  • Published

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Volume

1

Page range

259-289

Pages

300.0

Book title

Knowing governance: the epistemic construction of political order

Place of publication

Basingstoke, Hampshire

ISBN

9781137514493

Series

Palgrave studies in science, knowledge and policy

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  • SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications

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Editors

Richard Freeman, Jan-Peter Voß

Legacy Posted Date

2016-10-21

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