Dreamscapes of Modernity : Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power Hardback
by Sheila Jasanoff
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:360 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:02/09/2015
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- ISBN:9780226276496
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Unavailable
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:360 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:02/09/2015
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- ISBN:9780226276496