Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World with Ian Scoones

Tuesday October 22nd
Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm

Faced with an increasingly unpredictable world, we need to adjust our modernist, controlling mindset and learn how to live with uncertainty.

With changes to our climate, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks and new technologies, uncertainty is everywhere making the future ever less knowable. Learning to navigate uncertainty will be essential as we respond to these and other challenges.

In this talk, Ian Scoones, Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies and author of Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World will argue we need to learn from those who live with, and from, uncertainty every day and to find new approaches, including ones reclaimed and adapted from other  times and cultures.

Drawing on experiences from across the world, Ian will explore themes of finance and banking, technology regulation, critical infrastructures, pandemics, natural disasters and climate change. He will contrast an approach centred on risk and control - where we assume we know about and can manage the future - with one that is more flexible and capable of, responding to uncertainty. This will require a radical rethinking of policies, institutions and practices if we are to successfully navigate uncertainties in an increasingly turbulent world.

Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World is free to download.
For a 20% discount off the hard copy go to politybooks.com and use code SCO20

Kairos, 84 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4TG

Doors open at 6.30pm for drinks. Talk starts at 7pm.

£8 Kairos Club Member, £15 Non-member, £10 Struggling financially, £20 Supporter. Food complimentary.

Before requesting a discounted ticket, please consider sincerely: Are you struggling to meet your basic needs? Would you have to make a genuine sacrifice to buy a full priced ticket? Do you have reduced earnings through a lifestyle choice or because you’re dedicating your time to unpaid work relating to the climate and nature crises?