The Realism of Our Time? Futures, Fictions, and the Mid-Century Bang

Laura Horn*, Ayşem Mert, Franziska Müller

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Abstract

The Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century (HGP22 is a unique project that diffuses the dichotomy between the factual and the fictional. In a future antérieur style, each contributor to this volume has used their creativity to ask tricky, sad, hopeful, cynical questions: Where is IR, in times of war, climate and ecological catastrophe, and deepening social and political conflicts? Looking at our discipline, a number of anachronistic, but also futurist features seem remarkable: the broken, but re-establishing trust in global cooperation, the trust in post-human techno-fixes that enhance, or sometimes even replace human cooperation thanks to benevolent algorithms, the hope for radical, more-than-human encounters.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Palgrave Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century
EditorsLaura Horn, Ayşem Mert, Franziska Müller
Number of pages25
PublisherSpringer
Publication date1 Jan 2023
Pages407-431
ISBN (Print)9783031137211
ISBN (Electronic)9783031137228
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2023

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