Preemption, precaution, preparedness: Anticipatory action and future geographies. Anderson, B. Progress in Human Geography, 34(6):777–798, SAGE Publications Ltd, December, 2010.
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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.
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	title = {Preemption, precaution, preparedness: {Anticipatory} action and future geographies},
	volume = {34},
	issn = {0309-1325},
	shorttitle = {Preemption, precaution, preparedness},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132510362600},
	doi = {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.},
	language = {en},
	number = {6},
	urldate = {2023-05-12},
	journal = {Progress in Human Geography},
	publisher = {SAGE Publications Ltd},
	author = {Anderson, Ben},
	month = dec,
	year = {2010},
	pages = {777--798},
}

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