Sheila Jasanoff

Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power Sheila Jasanoff

Brief 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 studieswhich range over health security, Apartheid, rice biotechnology, Indonesian activism, and moreillustrate how different imaginations of social life and order are created in concert with imaginations of the goals, priorities, benefits, and risks of science and technologyat 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."Biographical Note: Sheila Jasanoff is the Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School. Sang-Hyun Kim is associate professor at the Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture at Hanyang University in Korea. Table of Contents: 1. Future Imperfect: Science, Technology, and the Imaginations of Modernity Sheila Jasanoff 2. Cecil Rhodes and the Making of a Sociotechnical Imaginary for South Africa William K. Storey 3. Our Monsters, Ourselves: Reimagining the Problem of Knowledge in Cold War America Michael A. Dennis 4. Imagining a Modern Rwanda: Sociotechnical Imaginaries, Information Technology, and the Postgenocide State Warigia Bowman 5. Keeping Technologies Out: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Formation of Austria s Technopolitical Identity Ulrike Felt 6. Remembering the Future: Science, Law and the Legacy of Asilomar J. Benjamin Hurlbut 7. Social Movements and Contested Sociotechnical Imaginaries in South Korea Sang-Hyun Kim 8. Building from the Outside In: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Civil Society in New Order Indonesia Suzanne Moon 9. Guerilla Engineers: The Internet and the Politics of Freedom in Indonesia Joshua Barker 10. Consuming Biotechnology: Genetically Modified Rice in China Nancy N. Chen 11. Imaginaries of Science and Society: Framing Nanotechnology Governance in Germany and the United States Regula Valerie Burri 12. Corporate Imaginaries of Biotechnology and Global Governance: Syngenta, Golden Rice, and Corporate Social Responsibility Elta Smith 13. Globalizing Security: Science and the Transformation of Contemporary Political Imagination Clark A. Miller 14. Global Health Security and the Pathogenic Imaginary Andrew Lakoff 15. Imagined and Invented Worlds Sheila Jasanoff Acknowledgments Contributor Biographies"

Contributor Bio:  Jasanoff, Sheila Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. She is the author of "Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States" and other books and the coeditor of "Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance" (MIT Press, 2004). Contributor Bio:  Kim, Sang-Hyun Sang-Hyun Kim is associate professor at the Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture at Hanyang University in Korea.