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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jasanoff, Sheila, Editor.

Kim, Sang Hyun, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Social aspects.

Science.

Technological innovations--Social aspects.

Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

VIII, 354 sider illustrasjoner

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226276663

022627666X

OCLC:

917153362