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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • One. Future Imperfect: Science, Technology, and the Imaginations of Modernity
  • Two. Cecil Rhodes and the Making of a Sociotechnical Imaginary for South Africa
  • Three. Our Monsters, Ourselves: Reimagining the Problem of Knowledge in Cold War America
  • Four. Imagining a Modern Rwanda: Sociotechnological Imaginaries, Information Technology, and the Postgenocide State
  • Five. Keeping Technologies Out: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Formation of Austria's Technopolitical Identity
  • Six. Remembering the Future: Science, Law, and the Legacy of Asilomar
  • Seven. Social Movements and Contested Sociotechnical Imaginaries in South Korea
  • Eight. Building from the Outside In: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Civil Society in New Order Indonesia
  • Nine. Guerilla Engineers: The Internet and the Politics of Freedom in Indonesia
  • Ten. Consuming Biotechnology: Genetically Modified Rice in China
  • Eleven. Imaginaries of Science and Society: Framing Nanotechnology Governance in Germany and the United States
  • Twelve. Corporate Imaginaries of Biotechnology and Global Governance: Syngenta, Golden Rice, and Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Thirteen. Globalizing Security: Science and the Transformation of Contemporary Political Imagination
  • Fourteen. Global Health Security and the Pathogenic Imaginary
  • Fifteen. Imagined and Invented Worlds
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributor Biographies
  • Index

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