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Democratic Experiments Problematizing Nanotechnology and Democracy in Europe and the United States / Brice Laurent.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laurent, Brice, author.
- Series:
- Inside technology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--United States.
- Democracy.
- Democracy--European Union countries.
- Science and state--United States.
- Science and state.
- Science and state--European Union countries.
- Nanotechnology--Government policy--United States.
- Nanotechnology.
- Nanotechnology--Government policy--European Union countries.
- Nanotechnology--Political aspects--United States.
- Nanotechnology--Political aspects--European Union countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 261 pages) : 1 illustration; digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2017]
- System Details:
- text file PDF
- Summary:
- This book looks at the democratic constructions surrounding public debates about issues related to scientific and technological development, specifically in this case nanotechnology. Brice Laurent argues that nanotechnology is a lens through which one can build a theoretical and practical approach to the study of contemporary democracies, exploring the joint production of nanotechnology itself and democratic order and identifying questions related to the exercise of citizenship, forms of national sovereignty, and channels of political legitimacy. This book helps increase visibility of and accessibility to STS methodologies for scholars and practitioners outside the field of science, technology, and society.
- Contents:
- Acknonwledgements
- Prologue
- 1. Problematizing nanotechnology, problematizing democracy
- Representing
- 2. Representing nanotechnology and its publics in the science museum
- 3. Replicating and standardizing technologies of democracy
- Governing
- 4. Making regulatory categories
- 5. Making responsible futures
- Engaging
- 6. Mobilizing against, mobilizing within nanotechnology
- 7. Democratizing nanotechnology?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-255) and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262344494
- 0262344491
- 9780262344470
- 0262344475
- OCLC:
- 1053576850
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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