Dreamscapes of modernity : sociotechnical imaginaries and the fabrication of power

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303.483 JAS-D

Contents:

1. Future Imperfect: Science, Technology, and the Imaginations of Modernity

2. Cecil Rhodes and the Making of a Sociotechnical Imaginary for South Africa

3. Our Monsters, Ourselves: Reimagining the Problem of Knowledge in Cold War America

4. Imagining a Modern Rwanda: Sociotechnical Imaginaries, Information Technology, and the Postgenocide State

5. Keeping Technologies Out: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Formation of Austria's Technopolitical Identity

6. Remembering the Future: Science, Law, and the Legacy of Asilomar

7. Social Movements and Contested Sociotechnical Imaginaries in South Kore

8. Building from the Outside In: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Civil Society in New Order Indonesia

9. Guerilla Engineers: The Internet and the Politics of Freedom in Indonesia

10. Consuming Biotechnology: Genetically Modified Rice in China

11. Imaginaries of Science and Society: Framing Nanotechnology Governance in Germany and the United States

12. Corporate Imaginaries of Biotechnology and Global Governance: Syngenta, Golden Rice, and Corporate Social Responsibility

Summary: 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 imagina.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.