Democratic Experiments : Problematizing Nanotechnology and Democracy in Europe and the United States / / Brice Laurent.
This book looks at the democratic constructions surrounding public debates about issues related to scientific and technological development, specifically in this case nanotechnology. Brice Laurent argues that nanotechnology is a lens through which one can build a theoretical and practical approach t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : : MIT Press,, [2017] ©[2017] |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Inside technology
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 261 pages) :; 1 illustration; digital, PDF file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknonwledgements
- Prologue
- 1. Problematizing nanotechnology, problematizing democracy
- Representing
- 2. Representing nanotechnology and its publics in the science museum
- 3. Replicating and standardizing technologies of democracy
- Governing
- 4. Making regulatory categories
- 5. Making responsible futures
- Engaging
- 6. Mobilizing against, mobilizing within nanotechnology
- 7. Democratizing nanotechnology?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index.