The European Research Council has awarded an ERC Starting Grant to Jenny Andersson for her research project : A political history of the future: knowledge production and future governance 1945-2010

Jenny Andersson is a research fellow CNRS at CERI. The ERC Starting Grants aim to support up-and-coming research leaders who are about to establish or consolidate a proper research team and to start conducting their independent research in Europe.
Her research project – A political history of the future: knowledge production and future governance 1945-2010 – FUTUREPOL – studies how contemporary societies engage with the future. It seeks to answer the fundamental question: How does the future become an object of governance?  See the website.