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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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press,
2015
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| Schlagworte: | Science - Social aspects Electronic books Gesellschaftsbild Wissenschaftlich-technischer Fortschritt |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (363 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | 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. Contents -- One / Future Imperfect: Science, Technology, and the Imaginations of Modernity / Sheila Jasanoff -- Two / Cecil Rhodes and the Making of a Sociotechnical Imaginary for South Africa / William Kelleher Storey -- Three / Our Monsters, Ourselves: Reimagining the Problem of Knowledge in Cold War America / Michael Aaron Dennis -- Four / Imagining a Modern Rwanda: Sociotechnical Imaginaries, Information Technology, and the Postgenocide State / Warigia Bowman -- Five / Keeping Technologies Out: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Formation of Austria's Technopolitical Identity / Ulrike Felt -- Six / Remembering the Future: Science, Law, and the Legacy of Asilomar / Benjamin Hurlbut -- Seven / 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 -- Nine / Guerilla Engineers: The Internet and the Politics of Freedom in Indonesia / Joshua Barker -- Ten / Consuming Biotechnology: Genetically Modified Rice in China / Nancy N. Chen -- Eleven / Imaginaries of Science and Society: Framing Nanotechnology Governance in Germany and the United States / Regula Valérie Burri -- Twelve / Corporate Imaginaries of Biotechnology and Global Governance: Syngenta, Golden Rice, and Corporate Social Responsibility / Elta Smith -- Thirteen / Globalizing Security: Science and the Transformation of Contemporary Political Imagination / Clark A. Miller -- Fourteen / Global Health Security and the Pathogenic Imaginary / Andrew Lakoff -- Fifteen / Imagined and Invented Worlds / Sheila Jasanoff -- Acknowledgments -- Contributor Biographies -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (363 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780226276663 022627666X 9780226276496 022627649X 9780226276526 022627652X |