Struggle for the Long-Term in Transnational Science and Politics

Jenny Andersson is CNRS research professor at the Center for European Studies of Sciences po, Paris. Eglė Rindzevičiūtė is a researcher at the Center for European Studies of Sciences po, Paris, and Associate Professor in Culture Studies at Linköping University, Sweden.

• Foreword Michael D. Gordin Introduction: Toward a New History of the Future Jenny Andersson and Eglė Rindzevičiūtė 1. Midwives of the Future: Futurism, Futures Studies and the Shaping of the Global Imagination Jenny Andersson 2. Expertise for the Future: The Emergence of Environmental Prediction c.1920-1970 Paul Warde and Sverker Sörlin 3. Energy Futures from the Social Market Economy to the Energiewende: The Politicization of West German Energy Debates, 1950-1990 Stefan Cihan Aykut 4. Technoscientific Cornucopian Futures versus Doomsday Futures: The World Models and The Limits to Growth Elodie Vieille-Blanchard 5. Towards a Joint Future Beyond the Iron Curtain: East-West Politics of Global Modelling Eglė Rindzevičiūtė 6. Forecasting the Post-Socialist Future: Prognostika in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia, 1970–1989 Vítězslav Sommer 7. Official and Unofficial Futures of the Communism System: Romanian Futures Studies Between Control and Dissidence Ana-Maria Cătănuş 8. Virtually Nigeria: USAID, Simulated Futures, and the Politics of Postcolonial Expertise, 1964-1980 Kevin Baker 9. Pan-Africanism, Socialism and the Future: Development Planning in Ghana, 1951-1966 Jeff Grischow and Holger Weiss

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