Dreamscapes of Modernity Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power |
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| Editor:
| Jasanoff, Sheila
Kim, Sang-Hyun |
| ISBN: | 978-0-226-27652-6 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2015 |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $38.00 |
Book Description:
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Dreamscapes of Modernity introduces and develops the concept of
sociotechnical imaginaries, demonstrating how it helps explain the divergent ways in which states and societies conceptualize futures achievable through and supportive of advances in science and technology. The book’s case studies--which range over health security, Apartheid, rice biotechnology, Indonesian activism, and more--illustrate how different imaginations of social life and order are...
More Description Dreamscapes of Modernity introduces and develops the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries, demonstrating how it helps explain the divergent ways in which states and societies conceptualize futures achievable through and supportive of advances in science and technology. The book’s case studies--which range over health security, Apartheid, rice biotechnology, Indonesian activism, and more--illustrate how different imaginations of social life and order are created in concert with imaginations of the goals, priorities, benefits, and risks of science and technology--at scales ranging from national to global. The concept of sociotechnical imaginaries adds to the theoretical repertoire of the social sciences, and in so doing extends work dealing with collective beliefs about social order that until now has not been adequately attentive to the central role of science and technology in shaping human possibilities. Through their varied disciplinary training and their willingness to join a common conversation, the contributors to this volume reveal the concept’s reach from science and technology studies to neighboring fields such as anthropology, history, history of science and technology, law, sociology, and public policy.