Jonathan White on the Future as a Political Idea
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Shownotes Jonathan White
Prof. Dr. Jonathan White at LSE London:
https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/jonathan-white
White, J. (2024). In the long run: The future as a political idea. Profile Books.
https://profilebooks.com/work/in-the-long-run/
Saito, K. (2026). Am Ende des Fortschritts. Überleben in den Ruinen des Kapitalismus. dtv.
https://www.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.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9248.12072
White, J. (2023) Constitutionalizing the EU in an Age of Emergencies. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 61: 781–796.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcms.1341
the Great Replacement Theory:
https://eooh.eu/articles/great-replacement-fringe-conspiracy-mainstream-narrative
on Brexit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit
on Lexit:
https://www.ippr.org/articles/forbidden-fruit-the-neglected-economic-possibilities-of-lexi
on Otto Bauer:
https://www.counterfire.org/article/the-austrian-revolution-book-review/
https://jbi.or.at/otto-bauer-utopie-und-wirklichkeit/
Jaeggi, R. (2025). Progress and regression. Harvard University Press.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674298019
on atomic bombings:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
on John Stuart Mill:
https://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.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3317-the-long-heat?srsltid=AfmBOoo_4whHho3ZrpGFZrLclb06yfTMCwMCDuQiPTBpfSwMDjWE2-y-
https://www.isepglobal.org/articles/net-zero-by-2050-too-little-too-late-scientists-warn
on tipping points:
https://global-tipping-points.org/earth-system-tipping-points/
on decarbonisation/climate change mitigation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_mitigation
on Extinction Rebellion:
https://rebellion.global/about-us/
on ‘temporal claustrophobia’:
https://www.lse.ac.uk/asset-library/rftw/how-ideas-of-the-future-can-help-us-find-time-for-democracy.pdf
Clark, C. (2013). The sleepwalkers: How europe went to war in 1914. Harper Collins.
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-sleepwalkers-christopher-clarkon climate change adaptation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_adaptation
https://climatepromise.undp.org/news-and-stories/what-climate-change-adaptation-and-why-it-crucial
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.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378025000640
on collapse and climate movements:
https://taz.de/Kollapsbewegung-in-der-Klimakrise/!6110821/
https://www.collapseclub.com/about/
on Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/26/andy-burnham-keir-starmer-leadership-styles-compare
on decarbonisation/climate change mitigation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_mitigation
on democratic planning:
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (2026). Creative Construction. Demokratische Planung im 21. Jahrhundert. Brumaire.
https://brumaireverlag.myshopify.com/products/creative-construction
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.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2008.00777.x
on Zohran Mamdani’s politics:
https://communia.de/oeffentlicher-luxus-fuer-alle-mamdani-zeigt-wie-es-geht/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czd782pjgq3o
on Liberalism:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberalism/#Bib
on economic Liberalism:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/economic-liberalism
on the critique of trickle-down economics:
https://www.exploring-economics.org/de/entdecken/joseph-stiglitz-trickle-down-economics-is-absolute/
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.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2019.1574867
on Post-liberalism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postliberalism
the Corbin Campaign in 2010:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn_2015_Labour_Party_leadership_campaign
on Gaza solidarity protests:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war_protests
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