Dreamscapes of Modernity - Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power

Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power

von Sang-Hyun Kim, Sheila Jasanoff

360 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Naturwissenschaften, allgemein Wissenschaft, Technologie und Gesellschaft
• ISBN: 9780226276526
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.09.2015
• Größe: 228 x 152 mm
• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press