articleProgress in Human GeographyApr 9, 2010GREEN OA

Preemption, precaution, preparedness: Anticipatory action and future geographies

BABen Anderson

Durham University

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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.

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  • Action (physics)
  • Problematization
  • Surprise
  • Futures contract
  • Preparedness
  • Set (abstract data type)
  • Relation (database)
  • Epistemology
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