Imagined Futures in Science, Technology and Society

ISBN-13: 9780367890247 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str.

Gert Verschraegen; Frederic Vandermoere; Luc Braeckmans

Opis

This book provides one of the first interdisciplinary assessments of how scientific and technological imaginations matter in the formation of human, ecological and societal futures. It explores how various actors such as scientists, companies or states imagine the future to be and act upon that imagination.

Spis treści

Introduction: Shaping the Future through Imaginaries of Science, Technology and Society

Gert Verschraegen and Frédéric Vandermoere

PART I – SHAPING HUMAN NATURE

Bioethics and the Legitimation/Regulation of the Imagined Future

Ari Schick

The New Biology of the Social: Shaping Humans’ Future, Science, and Public Health

Jan Baedke

Working Imagination along the Food-Drug Divide

Kim Hendrickx

PART II – SHAPING TECHNO-NATURES

Competing, Conflicting and Contested Futures: Temporal Imaginaries in the GM Crops Controversy

Andreas Mitzschke

Preserving Landscapes and Re-ordering Science-Society Relations: Imagining the Future in Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research

Thomas Völker

An Automobile Nation at the Crossroads: Re-imagining Germany’s Car Society through the Electrification of Transportation

Alexander Wentland

PART III – SHAPING SOCIETIES

Parameters of Nation-ness and Citizenship in Belgium (1846-1947)

Kaat Louckx

‘Make me happy and I shall again be virtuous’: Science Fiction and the Utopian Surplus of Science

Tom Moylan

Shaping New Horizons: Proactionary Attitudes, Precautionary Principles, and the Experimentalities of Science in Society

Matthias Gross

O autorze

Gert Verschraegen is Associate Professor in the department of Sociology at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Frédéric Vandermoere is professor in the department of sociology at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Luc Braeckmans is Professor in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Barbara Segaert holds a master diploma in Oriental Studies, Islamic Studies and Arab Philology (KU Leuven), Belgium and a master in the Social Sciences (Open University), UK.