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Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power

Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power

Jasanoff, Sheila
Kim, Sang-Hyun

Paperback

Technology & EngineeringSports GeneralGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 022627652X
ISBN13: 9780226276526
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Sep 2 2015
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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