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UNINA9910511352703321 |
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Vulnerability in technological cultures : new directions in research and governance / / edited by Anique Hommels, Jessica Mesman, and Wiebe E. Bijker |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , [2014] |
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[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2014] |
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0-262-52580-1 |
0-262-32314-1 |
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Collana |
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Technology - Social aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-372) and index. |
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Novel technologies and scientific advancements offer not only opportunities but risks. Technological systems are vulnerable to human error and technical malfunctioning that have far-reaching consequences: one flipped switch can cause a cascading power failure across a networked electric grid. Yet, once addressed, vulnerability accompanied by coping mechanisms may yield a more flexible and resilient society. This book investigates vulnerability, in both its negative and positive aspects, in technological cultures. The contributors argue that viewing risk in terms of vulnerability offers a novel approach to understanding the risks and benefits of science and technology. Such an approach broadens conventional risk analysis by connecting to issues of justice, solidarity, and livelihood, and enabling comparisons between the global north and south. The book explores case studies that range from agricultural practices in India to neonatal intensive care medicine in Western hospitals; these cases, spanning the issues addressed in the book, illustrate what vulnerability is and does. The book offers conceptual frameworks for empirical description and analysis of vulnerability that elucidate its ambiguity, context |
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dependence, and constructed nature. Finally, the book addresses the implications of these analyses for the governance of vulnerability, proposing a more reflexive way of dealing with vulnerability in technological cultures.ContributorsMarjolein van Asselt, Martin Boeckhout, Wiebe Bijker, Tessa Fox, Stephen Healy, Anique Hommels, Sheila Jasanoff,Jozef Keulartz, Jessica Mesman, Ger Palmboom, C. Shambu Prasad, Julia Quartz, Johan M. Sanne, Maartje Schermer, Teesta Setelvad, Esha Shah, Andy Stirling, Imrat Verhoeven, Esther Versluis, Shiv Visvanathan, Gerard de Vries, Ger Wackers, Dick Willems. |
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UNINA9910807080703321 |
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Autore |
Chopin Kate <1850-1904, > |
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Titolo |
The awakening / / Kate Chopin |
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New York : , : Open Road Integrated Media, , 2014 |
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91-7637-038-0 |
1-4804-7702-8 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (357 p.) |
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Feminism in literature |
Sex role in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-292) and index. |
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Cover; Title Page; Contents; THE AWAKENING; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; XV; XVI; XVII; XVIII; XIX; XX; XXI; XXII; XXIII; XXIV; XXV; XXVI; XXVII; XXVIII; XXIX; XXX; XXXI; XXXII; XXXIII; XXXIV; XXXV; XXXVI; XXXVII; XXXVIII; XXXIX; BEYOND THE BAYOU; MA''AME PELAGIE; I; II; III; IV; DESIREE''S BABY; A RESPECTABLE WOMAN; THE KISS; A PAIR OF SILK STOCKINGS; THE LOCKET; I; II; A REFLECTION; Copyright |
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Kate Chopin's groundbreaking novel of early feminism set against the evocative backdrop of turn-of-the-century New OrleansEdna Pontellier is trapped. By her marriage, by her responsibilities to two young sons, by the expectations of Creole society. When she falls in love with the charming and flirtatious Robert Lebrun during a summer on the |
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Louisiana coast, Edna awakens to a new sense of herself, and to the possibility of true independence. Mademoiselle Reisz, a locally renowned musician, offers one example of the self-sufficient, artistic existence Edna might lead. An affair with the notoriou |
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