Dreamscapes of Modernity : Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power / / Sheila Jasanoff, Sang-Hyun Kim

• Pubblicazione: Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: VIII, 354 sider : illustrasjoner
• Disciplina: 303.483
• Soggetto topico: Science - Social aspects; Technological innovations - Social aspects
• Soggetto non controllato: 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
• Classificazione: QC 344
• Persona (resp. second.): JasanoffSheila; KimSang-Hyun
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Dreamscapes of Modernity
• ISBN: 0-226-27666-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910838249103321
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