Dreamscapes of Modernity

Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power

Sheila Jasanoff, Sang-Hyun Kim, Sheila Jasanoff, Sang-Hyun Kim

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9780226276526
  9780226276496
• eBook ISBN:
  9780226276663
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Science History
• Index: Biological Sciences

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.

Index

actor network theory (ANT), 15–18, 19, 22, 206, 214–15, 333

Advanced Cell Technology, 138

agriculture, 41, 49, 51

agrobiotechnology, 105, 108–9, 114, 118–20

AI3 network, 207, 208

AIDS, 292–93

AISI (African Information Society Initiative), 90

Alisyahbana, Iskandar, 207

Alliance for Biosafety and Bioethics, 161

Anderson, Benedict, 6–8, 277, 281–82, 285, 321, 331

Anderson, Warwick, 318

Annan, Kofi, 90

ANT. See actor network theory

anticipatory capacity, 105–7, 113

Appadurai, Arjun, 7–8, 327

appropriate technology, 189, 194

Arts and Crafts Movement, 35, 46, 51

Arusha Accords, 86, 88, 95

Asilomar-in-memory, 127, 134–36, 139, 141–44, 328–29

Asilomar meeting, 126, 130–32, 146, 328

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 135

atomic bomb, 279, 284–88, 295. See also H-bomb

Aum Shinrikyo, 303

Austrian Nanotechnology Action Plan, 105

authoritarian rule, 86, 98, 156, 169, 202

Avian Influenza (H5N1), 306, 309–12

Baker, Herbert, 51–53

Baltimore, David, 131

Barroso, Jose Manuel, 281

Beck, Ulrich, 17, 237

Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), 224

Beit, Alfred, 42, 48

Benineza, Innocent, 93

Berg, Paul, 134

Bernal, J. D., 58

Bethe, Hans, 60

Beyer, Peter, 257–60, 265–67

bioethics, 129, 144, 161, 166, 247

biological warfare, 131

biosafety, 143, 272; in Korea, 160–61, 166; in China, 225–26

biosecurity, 143...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• ONE / Future Imperfect: Science, Technology, and the Imaginations of Modernity
• TWO / Cecil Rhodes and the Making of a Sociotechnical Imaginary for South Africa
• THREE / Our Monsters, Ourselves: Reimagining the Problem of Knowledge in Cold War America
• FOUR / Imagining a Modern Rwanda: Sociotechnical Imaginaries, Information Technology, and the Postgenocide State
• FIVE / Keeping Technologies Out: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Formation of Austria’s Technopolitical Identity
• SIX / Remembering the Future: Science, Law, and the Legacy of Asilomar
• SEVEN / Social Movements and Contested Sociotechnical Imaginaries in South Korea
• EIGHT / Building from the Outside In: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Civil Society in New Order Indonesia
• NINE / Guerilla Engineers: The Internet and the Politics of Freedom in Indonesia
• TEN / Consuming Biotechnology: Genetically Modified Rice in China
• ELEVEN / Imaginaries of Science and Society: Framing Nanotechnology Governance in Germany and the United States
• TWELVE / Corporate Imaginaries of Biotechnology and Global Governance: Syngenta, Golden Rice, and Corporate Social Responsibility
• THIRTEEN / Globalizing Security: Science and the Transformation of Contemporary Political Imagination
• FOURTEEN / Global Health Security and the Pathogenic Imaginary
• FIFTEEN / Imagined and Invented Worlds
• Acknowledgments
• Contributor Biographies
• Index