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245	0	0	_aDreamscapes of modernity : _bsociotechnical imaginaries and the fabrication of power _cedited by Sheila Jasanoff and Sang-Hyun Kim
260			_aLondon : _bUniversity of Chicago Press, _c©2015
300			_a354 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_t1. Future Imperfect: Science, Technology, and the Imaginations of Modernity
505			_t2. Cecil Rhodes and the Making of a Sociotechnical Imaginary for South Africa
505			_t3. Our Monsters, Ourselves: Reimagining the Problem of Knowledge in Cold War America
505			_t4. Imagining a Modern Rwanda: Sociotechnical Imaginaries, Information Technology, and the Postgenocide State
505			_t5. Keeping Technologies Out: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Formation of Austria's Technopolitical Identity
505			_t6. Remembering the Future: Science, Law, and the Legacy of Asilomar
505			_t7. Social Movements and Contested Sociotechnical Imaginaries in South Kore
505			_t8. Building from the Outside In: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Civil Society in New Order Indonesia
505			_t9. Guerilla Engineers: The Internet and the Politics of Freedom in Indonesia
505			_t10. Consuming Biotechnology: Genetically Modified Rice in China
505			_t11. Imaginaries of Science and Society: Framing Nanotechnology Governance in Germany and the United States
505			_t12. Corporate Imaginaries of Biotechnology and Global Governance: Syngenta, Golden Rice, and Corporate Social Responsibility
520			_aDreamscapes 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.
650		0	_aScience
650		0	_aTechnological innovations
650		0	_aPostmodernism
700	1		_aJasanoff, Sheila _eeditor
700	1		_aKim, Sang-Hyun _eeditor
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