Dreamscapes of modernity : sociotechnical imaginaries and the fabrication of power

Dreamscapes of modernity : sociotechnical imaginaries and the fabrication of power / edited by Sheila Jasanoff and Sang-Hyun Kim.

"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 p...

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Other Authors: Jasanoff, Sheila (Editor), Kim, Sang-Hyun, 1967- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Science > Social aspects.
Technological innovations > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Science > Social aspects
Technological innovations > Social aspects
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Table of 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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