Future Histories· Staffel 4· Folge 11
S04E11 - Jonathan White on the Future as a Political Idea
Sonntag, 16. August 2026 · 1 h 55
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Jonathan White on the Future as a Political Idea
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Shownotes Jonathan White
Prof. Dr. Jonathan White at LSE London:
lse.ac.uk/people/jonathan-white
White, J. (2024). In the long run: The future as a political idea. Profile Books.
profilebooks.com/work/in-the-long-run
Saito, K. (2026). Am Ende des Fortschritts. Überleben in den Ruinen des Kapitalismus. dtv.
dtv.de/buch/am-ende-des-fortschritts-28534
Jonathan White on the concept of emergency:
White, J. (2015). Emergency Europe. Political studies, 63(2), 300-318.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9…
White, J. (2023) Constitutionalizing the EU in an Age of Emergencies. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 61: 781–796.doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13415
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcms.…
the Great Replacement Theory:
eooh.eu/articles/great-replacement-fringe-cons…
on Brexit:
on Lexit:
ippr.org/articles/forbidden-fruit-the-neglecte…
on Otto Bauer:
counterfire.org/article/the-austrian-revolutio…
jbi.or.at/otto-bauer-utopie-und-wirklichkeit
Jaeggi, R. (2025). Progress and regression. Harvard University Press.
hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674298019
on atomic bombings:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiros…
on John Stuart Mill:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill
on the ‘too late’ narrative:
Malm, A., & Carton, W. (2025). The long heat: Climate politics when it’s too late. Verso Books.
versobooks.com/products/3317-the-long-heat?srs…
isepglobal.org/articles/net-zero-by-2050-too-l…
on tipping points:
global-tipping-points.org/earth-system-tipping…
on decarbonisation/climate change mitigation:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_mitigation
on Extinction Rebellion:
on ‘temporal claustrophobia’:
lse.ac.uk/asset-library/rftw/how-ideas-of-the-…
Clark, C. (2013). The sleepwalkers: How europe went to war in 1914. Harper Collins.
harpercollins.com/products/the-sleepwalkers-ch… climate change adaptation:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_adaptation
climatepromise.undp.org/news-and-stories/what-…
Amorim-Maia, A. T., & Olazabal, M. (2025). Beyond adjustment: A new paradigm for climate change adaptation in a complex world. Global Environmental Change, 93, 103027.
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378…
on collapse and climate movements:
taz.de/Kollapsbewegung-in-der-Klimakrise/!6110…
on Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham:
theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/26/andy-burn…
on decarbonisation/climate change mitigation:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_mitigation
on democratic planning:
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (2026). Creative Construction. Demokratische Planung im 21. Jahrhundert. Brumaire.
brumaireverlag.myshopify.com/products/creative…
on participatory budgeting:
Sintomer, Y., Herzberg, C., & Röcke, A. (2008). Participatory budgeting in Europe: Potentials and challenges. International journal of urban and regional research, 32(1), 164-178.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468…
on Zohran Mamdani’s politics:
communia.de/oeffentlicher-luxus-fuer-alle-mamd…
bbc.com/news/articles/czd782pjgq3o
on Liberalism:
plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberalism/#Bib
on economic Liberalism:
sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/econo…
on the critique of trickle-down economics:
exploring-economics.org/de/entdecken/joseph-st…
on ‘promissory legitimacy’:
Beckert, J. (2020). The exhausted futures of neoliberalism: from promissory legitimacy to social anomy. Journal of Cultural Economy, 13(3), 318–330.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2019…
on Post-liberalism:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postliberalism
the Corbin Campaign in 2010:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn_2015_Labou…
on Gaza solidarity protests:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war_protests
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futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s04/e07-cr…
S03E46 | Rahel Jaeggi zur Krise des Liberalismus, Fortschritt als Prozess und sozialistischem Utopisieren
futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e46-ra…
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futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e33-ta…
S03E32 | Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Decline
futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e32-ja…
S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown
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