An appreciation by Dr Tapiwa Chatikobo The famed self-trained historian Pathisa Nyathi has died aged 73 as a result of complications with diabetes. He has been described by many as a brilliant historian, a living library, an archive of Zimbabwean … Continue reading → …
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50 years of the Review of African Political Economy: An Appreciation
This year marks 50 years since the first publication of the journal, the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE). At the invitation of Ray Bush, one of the long-standing editors, I wrote a short appreciation focusing on material published in … Continue reading → …
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Navigating uncertainty: a blog compilation
Over the last 8 weeks I have provided a summary of each of the chapters of my new book, Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World. Published by Polity Books, it came out in Europe in August and in … Continue reading → …
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A new politics of uncertainty? From risk to uncertainty, from control to care
As the Navigating Uncertainty book shows, the politics of risk are centred on calculative, technocratic control, where we assume we can predict, model and manage. A politics of uncertainty by contrast is all about socially embedded, networked learning, flexibility, adaptation, … Continue reading → …
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Adapting to climate change: co-constructing solutions on the ground
We know climate change is happening, but it’s uncertain as to how the impacts will play out, to what extent, where, affecting whom. In the sixth chapter of Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World, I again look at … Continue reading → …
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Taking uncertainty seriously in disaster preparedness and response
The news is full of disasters: droughts, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, chemical spills and more. They are more frequent, and their scale of impact is growing according to UN reports. A whole industry focused on disaster risk reduction and response … Continue reading → …
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Beyond epidemiological certainties: building pandemic responses from below
How to respond to and prepare for pandemics is a top policy priority, but there are many uncertainties. In the fifth chapter of the book, Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World, I focus on the lessons from the … Continue reading → …
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Real-time reliability: managing uncertainties in critical infrastructures
‘Critical infrastructures’ are those that deliver important goods and services to society in the face of high levels of variability. They may be electricity supply systems or food producing systems, for example. The key question is how do the goods … Continue reading → …
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What is safe for whom? Negotiating new technologies under conditions of uncertainty
In the regulation of new technologies, the questions of what is safe for whom are always thrown up. This is the third blog in a short series discussing the new book – Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World. … Continue reading → …
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The financial crash: lessons from pastoralists?
This blog continues the short series on the new book, Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World. In the chapter on Finance and banking, I look at the 2007-08 financial crash and how particular models and regulatory practices created … Continue reading → …
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