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

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015Description: 354 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780226276526
  • 9780226276496
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: 9780226276663. | Erscheint auch als: Dreamscapes of modernity. Online-Ausgabe. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015. 1 Online-Ressource (354 Seiten) | Erscheint auch als: Dreamscapes of Modernity. Online-Ausgabe Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2015. 1 online resource (363 pages)DDC classification:
  • 303.48/3 23
RVK: RVK: MR 5800 | MS 4850 | QC 344LOC classification:
  • Q175.5
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 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.Call number: Grundsignatur: 2015 A 6444PPN: PPN: 815472358
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Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Freihandbestand ausleihbar Bibliothek Campus Süd soz 2.23 Lesesaal Geisteswissenschaften (LSG) 2015 A 6444 ;b Available 53523492090
Handbibliothek ITAS Handbibliothek (Ausleihe und Einsicht nicht möglich) 2015 A 6444 Checked out Ausleihe und Einsicht nicht möglich 06.11.2035 51786904090
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