
Episode #11
S04E11 - 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 , Bluesky 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-clark on 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 Related Episodes of Future Histories S04E10 | Christine Hentschel zu Sicherheit und Aktivismus in katastrophischen Zeiten https://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 Progress https://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 Utopisieren https://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 Kollaps https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e33-tadzio-mueller-zu-solidarischem-preppen-im-kollaps/ S03E32 | Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Decline https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e32-jacob-blumenfeld-on-climate-barbarism-and-managing-decline/ S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e23-andreas-malm-on-overshooting-into-climate-breakdown/ — Future Histories Contact & Support If you like Future Histories, please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories Contact: office@futurehistories.today Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/futurehpodcast/ Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@FutureHistories English 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

