Governing global challenges through quantified futures

Berten, John; Kranke, Matthias

dc.date.accessioned	2024-09-02T14:00:37Z
dc.date.available	2024-09-02T14:00:37Z
dc.date.issued	2024-04-12
dc.identifier	doi:10.17170/kobra-2024082310705
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/16015
dc.description.sponsorship	Gefördert im Rahmen eines Open-Access-Transformationsvertrags mit dem Verlag	ger
dc.description.sponsorship	Matthias Kranke gratefully acknowledges financial support from two fellowships that facilitated revisions to this introduction, as well as the coordination of the collection as a whole: (1) a Senior Research Fellowship at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (held from April to September 2023), sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant number 01UK1810); and (2) a Young Academy for Sustainability Research Fellowship at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg, Germany (held from October 2023 to September 2024), sponsored by the Eva Mayr-Stihl Foundation.	eng
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.rights	Namensnennung-Nicht-kommerziell 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/	*
dc.subject	futures	eng
dc.subject	futurisation	eng
dc.subject	global challenges	eng
dc.subject	global governance	eng
dc.subject	numbers	eng
dc.subject	problematisation	eng
dc.subject	quantification	eng
dc.subject.ddc	320
dc.title	Governing global challenges through quantified futures	eng
dc.type	Aufsatz
dcterms.abstract	Many contemporary efforts to govern global challenges are driven by combinations of numbers and futures. This special section proposes the novel concept of ‘quantified futures’ as a way of grasping this widespread entanglement. Because existing scholarship has largely treated quantification and futurisation as discrete governing technologies, their intersections have remained undertheorised and underexplored. In this introductory article, we discuss similarities between quantification and futurisation to build an integrated analytical framework that outlines how quantified futures operate across transnational policy domains by shaping the salience, scope and urgency of global challenges and their solutions. The special section at large cautions against overly optimistic expectations regarding the capacity of quantified futures to tackle global challenges. Rather, it underscores the need to enquire into the mutually reinforcing effects between, on the one hand, the growing use of quantified futures and, on the other hand, the increase and diversification of global challenges.	eng
dcterms.accessRights	open access
dcterms.creator	Berten, John
dcterms.creator	Kranke, Matthias
dc.relation.doi	doi:10.1177/13691481241240714
dc.relation.projectid	grant number 01UK1810
dc.subject.swd	Zukunft	ger
dc.subject.swd	Global Governance	ger
dc.subject.swd	Quantifizierung	ger
dc.type.version	publishedVersion
dcterms.source.identifier	eissn:1467-856X
dcterms.source.issue	Issue 3
dcterms.source.journal	The British Journal of Politics and International Relations	eng
dcterms.source.pageinfo	599-621
dcterms.source.volume	Volume 26
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