Security-based risk politics produces reactionary anticipatory politics mistrustful of experts.

Evidence

In part 2 of this book, I tracked the ramifications of the “risk society” thesis for contemporary modes of sociality and intimacy. Considered in the political arena, a key consequence of a security-based approach to risk is an anticipatory (and, most often, reactionary) politics that eschews evidence altogether. Institutions and experts become mistrusted even as demands on their performance increase (Martin 2015, 47). — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 317

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds the reader’s throughline of how uncertainty-training produces speculative rather than evidence-based political bets. — connects to: Contemporary mistrust of government has multiple structural causes beyond conspiracism. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 84