Jonathan White on the Future as a Political Idea

Jonathan White on the Future as a Political Idea Launch of the Future Histories LAB - a Space for Radical Imagination and Postcapitalist Construction. Find us on: www.futurehistories-lab.com Follow us on: Instagram, BlueskyShownotes Jonathan WhiteProf. Dr. Jonathan White at LSE London:https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/jonathan-whiteWhite, 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-28534Jonathan White on the concept of emergency:White, J. (2015). Emergency Europe. Political studies, 63(2), 300-318.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9248.12072White, 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.1341the Great Replacement Theory:https://eooh.eu/articles/great-replacement-fringe-conspiracy-mainstream-narrativeon Brexit:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexiton Lexit:https://www.ippr.org/articles/forbidden-fruit-the-neglected-economic-possibilities-of-lexion 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/9780674298019on atomic bombings:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasakion John Stuart Mill:https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Millon 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-warnon tipping points:https://global-tipping-points.org/earth-system-tipping-points/on decarbonisation/climate change mitigation:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_mitigationon 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.pdfClark, 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_adaptationhttps://climatepromise.undp.org/news-and-stories/what-climate-change-adaptation-and-why-it-crucialAmorim-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/S0959378025000640on 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_mitigationon democratic planning:Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (2026). Creative Construction. Demokratische Planung im 21. Jahrhundert. Brumaire. https://brumaireverlag.myshopify.com/products/creative-constructionon 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.xon 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-liberalismon 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/10.1080/17530350.2019.1574867on Post-liberalism:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postliberalism the Corbin Campaign in 2010:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn_2015_Labour_Party_leadership_campaignon Gaza solidarity protests:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war_protestsRelated Episodes of Future HistoriesS04E10 | Christine Hentschel zu Sicherheit und Aktivismus in katastrophischen Zeitenhttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s04/e10-christine-hentschel-zu-sicherheit-und-aktivismus-in-katastrophischen-zeiten/ S04E07 | Kohei Saito, Christoph Sorg and Jan Groos on Creative Construction and the Struggle over Progresshttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s04/e07-creative-construction-and-the-struggle-over-progress/S03E46 | Rahel Jaeggi zur Krise des Liberalismus, Fortschritt als Prozess und sozialistischem Utopisierenhttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e46-rahel-jaeggi-zur-krise-des-liberalismus-fortschritt-als-prozess-und-sozialistischem-utopisieren/S03E33 | Tadzio Müller zu solidarischem Preppen im Kollapshttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e33-tadzio-mueller-zu-solidarischem-preppen-im-kollaps/S03E32 | Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Declinehttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e32-jacob-blumenfeld-on-climate-barbarism-and-managing-decline/S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdownhttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e23-andreas-malm-on-overshooting-into-climate-breakdown/—Future Histories Contact & SupportIf you like Future Histories, please consider supporting us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistoriesContact: [email protected]: https://www.instagram.com/futurehpodcast/Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@FutureHistoriesEnglish webpage: https://futurehistories-international.com Future Histories Podcast is produced by Future Histories LAB:https://www.futurehistories-lab.com Episode Keywords#JonathanWhite #JanGroos, #Interview, #LSE, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #FutureHistories, #Future, #PoliticalIdeas, #Liberalism, #Capitalism, #Democracy, #ClimateCrisis, #Postliberalism, #DesirableFutures, #Neoliberalism, #DemocraticPlanning, #AlternativeFutures