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

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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non fiction

Dreamscapes of modernity

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edited by Sheila Jasanoff and Sang-Hyun Kim

sociotechnical imaginaries and the fabrication of power

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<U+0127> including nuclear power in Austria, Chinese rice biotechnology, Korean stem cell research, the Indonesian Internet, US bioethics, global health, and more<U+0127> 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.--, Provided by Publisher

1. Future Imperfect: Science, Technology, and the Imaginations of Modernity Sheila Jasanoff 2. Cecil Rhodes and the Making of a Sociotechnical Imaginary for South Africa William K. Storey 3. Our Monsters, Ourselves: Reimagining the Problem of Knowledge in Cold War America Michael A. Dennis 4. Imagining a Modern Rwanda: Sociotechnical Imaginaries, Information Technology, and the Postgenocide State Warigia Bowman 5. Keeping Technologies Out: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Formation of Austria's Technopolitical Identity Ulrike Felt 6. Remembering the Future: Science, Law and the Legacy of Asilomar J. Benjamin Hurlbut 7. Social Movements and Contested Sociotechnical Imaginaries in South Korea Sang-Hyun Kim 8. Building from the Outside In: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Civil Society in New Order Indonesia Suzanne Moon 9. Guerilla Engineers: The Internet and the Politics of Freedom in Indonesia Joshua Barker 10. Consuming Biotechnology: Genetically Modified Rice in China Nancy N. Chen 11. Imaginaries of Science and Society: Framing Nanotechnology Governance in Germany and the United States Regula Valérie Burri 12. Corporate Imaginaries of Biotechnology and Global Governance: Syngenta, Golden Rice, and Corporate Social Responsibility Elta Smith 13. Globalizing Security: Science and the Transformation of Contemporary Political Imagination Clark A. Miller 14.Global Health Security and the Pathogenic Imaginary Andrew Lakoff 15.Imagined and Invented Worlds Sheila Jasanoff