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.
"Dreamscapes of Modernity offers a flexible, yet rigorous model for
positioning politics at the center of STS by emphasizing the
imaginative and normative as well as the material and institutional
dimensions of scientific and technological projects. The concept of
sociotechnical imaginaries represents a vital contribution not only
to Science and Technology Studies, but also to fields such as
critical geography, cultural studies, and political theory--a
reminder that contemporary configurations of science, technology,
and power could have been, and still can be, otherwise."--Daniel
Williford "Technology and Culture"
"The essays in Dreamscapes of Modernity address the ways in which
individuals, states, universities, and various corporate bodies
conceptualize scientific and technological matters while
translating this knowledge into visions for productive social,
political, and technical change. Jasanoff and Kim offer a lucid and
subtle analysis of the role of science and technology in producing
norms, knowledges, and visions that cement relations of power. What
is at stake in this very fine volume is a fundamental understanding
of how social systems change or endure, cohere or fall apart."--
"Judy Wajcman, author of Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life
in Digital Capitalism"
"The individual essays in Dreamscapes are uniformly interesting and
well researched, and Jasanoff's opening essay offers a
sophisticated overview of a wide body of literature. The collection
offers a valuable addition to scholarship at the intersection of
STS, SHOT, Politics and Science Policy, and I expect will become
widely read."-- "Metascience"
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