Dreamscapes of Modernity Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780226276526 |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Imprint: | The University of Chicago Press |
Pub date: | 04 Sep 2015 |
DEWEY: | 303.483 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 360 |
Weight: | 534g |
Height: | 152mm |
Width: | 227mm |
Spine width: | 22mm |