Dreamscapes of modernity : sociotechnical imaginaries and the fabrication of power
edited by Sheila Jasanoff and Sang-Hyun Kim
Bok · Engelsk · 2015
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| Omfang | 354 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Future imperfect : science, technology, and the imaginations of modernity / Sheila Jasanoff -- Cecil Rhodes and the making of a sociotechnical imaginary for South Africa / William Kelleher Storey -- Our monsters, ourselves : reimagining the problem of knowledge in Cold War America / Michael Aaron Dennis -- Imagining a modern Rwanda : sociotechnical imaginaries, information technology, and the postgenocide state / Warigia Bowman -- Keeping technologies out : sociotechnical imaginaries and the formation of Austria's technopoliticaliIdentity / Ulrike Felt -- Remembering the future : science, law, and the legacy of Asilomar / J. Benjamin Hurlbut -- Social movements and contested sociotechnical imaginaries in South Korea / Sang-Hyun Kim -- Eight building from the outside in : sociotechnical imaginaries and civil society in new order Indonesia / Suzanne Moon -- Guerilla engineers : the internet and the politics of freedom in Indonesia / Joshua Barker -- Consuming biotechnology : genetically modified rice in China / Nancy N. Chen -- Imaginaries of science and society : framing nanotechnology governance in Germany and the United States / Regula Valérie Burri -- Corporate imaginaries of biotechnology and global governance : Syngenta, Golden Rice, and corporate social Responsibility / Elta Smith -- Globalizing security : science and the transformation of contemporary political imagination / Clark A. Miller -- Global health security and the pathogenic imaginary / Andrew Lakoff -- Imagined and invented worlds / Sheila Jasanoff. - Dreamscapes of Modernity offers the first book-length treatment of sociotechnical imaginaries, a concept originated by Sheila Jasanoff and developed in close collaboration with Sang-Hyun Kim to describe how visions of scientific and technological progress carry with them implicit ideas about public purposes, collective futures, and the common good. The book presents a mix of case studies including nuclear power in Austria, Chinese rice biotechnology, Korean stem cell research, the Indonesian Internet, US bioethics, global health, and more to illustrate how the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries can lead to more sophisticated understandings of the national and transnational politics of science and technology. A theoretical introduction sets the stage for the contributors' wide-ranging analyses, and a conclusion gathers and synthesizes their collective findings. The book marks a major theoretical advance for a concept that has been rapidly taken up across the social sciences and promises to become central to scholarship in science and technology studies
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| ISBN | 0-226-27652-x. - 978-0-226-27649-6. - 978-0-226-27652-6
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