URBAN VISIONS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE FINANCE: Dispossessive Mechanisms of Futuring in the Making of Groy

Hilbrandt, Hanna; Grafe, Fritz‐Julius

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“…Two influential examples have considered how experts render future threats present in ways that compel ‘anticipatory action’ (Anderson, 2010), and how aspirations to attain ‘global city’ status have served as ‘regulating fictions’ (Robinson, 2002) for urban policy and investment ( cf . Hilbrandt and Grafe, 2022, this issue, on fictional future cities as ‘gravitational points’). More recently, sociological work has focused specifically on the role of authoritative fiction(s) to show how economic action is driven by ‘fictional expectations’ (Beckert, 2013).…”

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WHERE IS THE FUTURE? Geography, Expectation and Experience across Three Decades of Malaysia's Vision 2020

Bunnell¹

2022

Int J Urban Regional Res

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In 1991, the Malaysian Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad, announced Vision 2020 to make the country 'fully developed' by that year. Launched during a period of rapid economic growth, Vision 2020 legitimized Mahathir's developmental penchant for spectacular urban megaprojects and ambitious technological experimentation. While hopes of reaching Vision 2020's crude GDP targets were dashed even before the end of the 1990s (largely as a result of the Asian financial crisis), and Mahathir stepped down from office in 2003, the year 2020 retained significance as a horizon of expectation for a generation of Malaysians. In this Interventions essay I look back at three decades of Vision 2020 from the temporal vantage point of 2020. The lead-up to that year saw political, popular and artistic retrospection on Vision 2020, spurred in part by nonagenarian Mahathir's return to power. Contextually, 'Where is the future?' articulates unrealized technological and developmental expectations from peak Vision 2020. Conceptually, the essay offers a critical geography of political futures past--demonstrating the constitutive spatiality of future expectations and the diverse ways in which elite developmental visions are engaged in life geographies, spaces of experience and representational practices.

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WHERE IS THE FUTURE? Geography, Expectation and Experience across Three Decades of Malaysia's Vision 2020

Bunnell¹

2022

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…While it is important to consider the advantages of future thinking to visualize different alternatives to mega‐trends that can eventually potentiate transformative innovations (Sharpe, 2020), a city's institutionalization of future visions can also reinforce path‐dependence trajectories towards certain kinds of futures. Malaysia's Vision 2020 described by Bunnell (2022, this issue) and the ‘making of Groy’ by Hilbrandt and Grafe (2022, this issue) provide good examples of the institutionalization of hegemonic and globalized futures.…”

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THE FUTURE SCENARIOS OF CITIES: An Analysis of their Institutional Construction

González‐Arellano¹

2022

Int J Urban Regional Res

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In recent decades, a dominant narrative has emerged in which cities are considered the most decisive places for the future of contemporary societies. In fact, institutional production of such futures grants cities a central function in the becoming of the world. The objective of this essay is to analyze and characterize the institutional construction of future scenarios for cities based on three dimensions, or pillars, of a proposal for an institutional analysis. These dimensions are regulatory, normative and cognitive. The construction of future scenarios can be useful for cities, but it is important to recognize that they are institutional constructions that respond to the interests of individuals or groups and thus reflect visions of the present that reveal the concerns and strategic dimensions of certain actors. In this essay I analyze and characterize a corpus of 101 future scenarios for 81 cities in different countries. The results demonstrate that the future scenarios for cities are institutionalized through the development of regulatory functions, value systems and cognitive and cultural frameworks for organizations and individuals.

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Bonding out the future: Tracing the politics of urban climate finance in Miami, Florida

Cox

2023

Journal of Urban Affairs

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URBAN VISIONS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE FINANCE: Dispossessive Mechanisms of Futuring in the Making of Groy

Cited by 5 publications

References 41 publications

WHERE IS THE FUTURE? Geography, Expectation and Experience across Three Decades of Malaysia's Vision 2020

WHERE IS THE FUTURE? Geography, Expectation and Experience across Three Decades of Malaysia's Vision 2020

THE FUTURE SCENARIOS OF CITIES: An Analysis of their Institutional Construction

Bonding out the future: Tracing the politics of urban climate finance in Miami, Florida

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