Dreamscapes of Modernity : Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Barker, Joshua (Contribuidor), Bowman, Warigia (Contribuidor), Burri, Regula Valérie (Contribuidor), Chen, Nancy N. (Contribuidor), Dennis, Michael Aaron (Contribuidor), Felt, Ulrike (Contribuidor), Hurlbut, J. Benjamin (Contribuidor), Jasanoff, Sheila (Contribuidor, Editor ), Kim, Sang-Hyun (Contribuidor, Editor ), Lakoff, Andrew (Contribuidor), Miller, Clark A. (Contribuidor), Moon, Suzanne (Contribuidor), Smith, Elta (Contribuidor), Storey, William Kelleher (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Temas:
Science > Social aspects.
Technological innovations > Social aspects.
SCIENCE / General.
progress, imagination, power, technology, future, potential, global health, bioethics, internet, indonesia, stem cell, korea, biotechnology, rice, gmos, china, food supply, world hunger, famine, nuclear, austria, innovation, discovery, asia, europe, cecil rhodes, south africa, cold war, history, nonfiction, rwanda, information, genocide, regime change, politics, government, nation, asilomar, social movements, nanotechnology, pathogens, security, syngenta, corporate responsibility, germany.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (360 p.) : 7 halftones
ISBN:9780226276663
9783110690439
Acceso:restricted access

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