Captured Futures

Maarten A. Hajer is Distinguished Professor of Urban Futures at Utrecht University. Previously, he was Professor of Public Policy at the University of Amsterdam and served a term as Director-General of PBL - the Netherlands Assessment Agency. Hajer is the author of The Politics of Environmental Discourse (OUP, 1995) and Authoritative Governance: Policy Making in the Age of Mediatization (OUP, 2009). Hajer is a regular curator of exhibitions and a member of the UN's International Resource Panel.Jeroen Oomen is Assistant Professor at the Urban Futures Studio at Utrecht University, where he focuses on the social, cultural, and scientific practices that create societies' conceptions of the future. His main research interests are climate politics, geoengineering, and social theory, specifically where it concerns questions of sustainability. Oomen is the author of Imagining Climate Engineering: Dreaming of the Designer Climate (Routledge, 2021). He has also published on environmental politics, futuring, and governance, both for academic and general audiences, and regularly contributes to public media, museum exhibits, and activism.

Powerful, timely and consequential. It is arguably the most important book on environmental politics in the past decade.

• A Captured Politics Part I. Setting the Stage: A Futuring Approach to Environmental Politics 1: The Drama of Environmental Politics 2: Futures in Environmental Politics Part II. Captured Futuring in Action 3: The Politics of Futuring: The Invention of the 1.5oC Target 4: Ecological Modernization> 's Last Stand: Geoengineering 5: A Cultural Politics of the Environment Part III. Breaking out of a Captured Politics 6: The New Discursive Space 7: Dramaturgies of Change Outlook: Socio-Ecological Imaginations Lexicon of Concepts and Definitions Bibliography Index