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Emptying the future: On the environmental politics of anticipation

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Futures, Volume: 92, Pages: 29 - 38

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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.futures.2016.06.003

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Anticipation may be seen as structured by images and representations, an approach that has informed recent work in science and technology studies on the sociology of expectations. But anticipation, as a capacity or characteristic, is not solely manifested in the form of representations, even where s...

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ISSN: 0016-3287
Published: Elsevier BV 2017
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