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Contested futures : a sociology of prospective techno-science / edited by Nik Brown, Brian Rappert and Andrew Webster.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Aldershot : Ashgate, 2000Description: xiv, 277 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0754612635
  • 9780754612636
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.49
Contents:
List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1. Time, Temporality and the Social Construction of the Future -- 1. Introducing Contested Futures: From Looking into the Future to Looking at the Future -- 2. Futures of the Present: From Performativity to Prehension -- Part 2. Language and the Social Rhetoric of Technical Futures -- 3. Forceful Futures: From Promise to Requirement -- 4. The Narrative Shaping of a Product Creation Process -- 5. Organising/Disorganising the Breakthrough Motif: Dolly the Cloned Ewe Meets Astrid the Hybrid Pig -- 6. Talking About the Future: Metaphors of the Internet -- Part 3. Past Futures -- 7. Lessons from Failed Technology Futures: Potholes in the Road to the Future -- 8. Science Fiction's Memory of the Future -- Part 4. Future Science, Future Policy and the Management of Uncertainty -- 9. Scripts for the Future: Using Innovation Studies to Design Foresight Tools -- 10. Genetics and Uncertainty -- 11. Expectations and Learning as Principles for Shaping the Future -- 12. Contested Health Futures -- Index.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 303.49 CON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A269855B

Includes index.

List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1. Time, Temporality and the Social Construction of the Future -- 1. Introducing Contested Futures: From Looking into the Future to Looking at the Future -- 2. Futures of the Present: From Performativity to Prehension -- Part 2. Language and the Social Rhetoric of Technical Futures -- 3. Forceful Futures: From Promise to Requirement -- 4. The Narrative Shaping of a Product Creation Process -- 5. Organising/Disorganising the Breakthrough Motif: Dolly the Cloned Ewe Meets Astrid the Hybrid Pig -- 6. Talking About the Future: Metaphors of the Internet -- Part 3. Past Futures -- 7. Lessons from Failed Technology Futures: Potholes in the Road to the Future -- 8. Science Fiction's Memory of the Future -- Part 4. Future Science, Future Policy and the Management of Uncertainty -- 9. Scripts for the Future: Using Innovation Studies to Design Foresight Tools -- 10. Genetics and Uncertainty -- 11. Expectations and Learning as Principles for Shaping the Future -- 12. Contested Health Futures -- Index.

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