Beyond Imported Magic (eBook)

Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America

Christina Holmes, Ivan da Costa Marques, Eden Medina (Herausgeber)

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2014
410 Seiten
The MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-32550-9 (ISBN)

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Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South.The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the global North to the global South-the view of technology as "e;imported magic."e; They describe not only alternate pathways for innovation, invention, and discovery but also how ideas and technologies circulate in Latin American contexts and transnationally. The contributors' explorations of these issues, and their examination of specific Latin American experiences with science and technology, offer a broader, more nuanced understanding of how science, technology, politics, and power interact in the past and present.The essays in this book use methods from history and the social sciences to investigate forms of local creation and use of technologies; the circulation of ideas, people, and artifacts in local and global networks; and hybrid technologies and forms of knowledge production. They address such topics as the work of female forensic geneticists in Colombia; the pioneering Argentinean use of fingerprinting technology in the late nineteenth century; the design, use, and meaning of the XO Laptops created and distributed by the One Laptop per Child Program; and the development of nuclear energy in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile.ContributorsPedro Ignacio Alonso, Morgan G. Ames, Javiera Barandiaran, Joao Biehl, Anita Say Chan, Amy Cox Hall, Henrique Cukierman, Ana Delgado, Rafael Dias, Adriana Diaz del Castillo H., Mariano Fressoli, Jonathan Hagood, Christina Holmes, Matthieu Hubert, Noela Invernizzi, Michael Lemon, Ivan da Costa Marques, Gisela Mateos, Eden Medina, Maria Fernanda Olarte Sierra, Hugo Palmarola, Tania Perez-Bustos, Julia Rodriguez, Israel Rodriguez-Giralt, Edna Suarez Diaz, Hernan Thomas, Manuel Tironi, Dominique Vinck

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.2014
• Co-Autor: Rafael Dias, Mariano Fressoli, Adriana Diaz del Castillo H., Jonathan Hagood, Amy Cox Hall, Christina Holmes, Mattieu Hubert, Noela Invernizzi, Michael Lemon, Ivan da Costa Marques, Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Gisela Mateos, Eden Medina, Hugo Palmarola, Julia Rodriguez, Israel Rodriguez-Giralt, Maria Fernanda Olarte Sierra, Edna Suarez, Hernan Thomas, Manuel Tironi, Dominique Vinck, Morgan G. Ames, Javiera Barandiaran, Joao Biehl, Tania Perez Bustos, Anita Say Chan, Henrique Cukierman, Ana Delgado
• Vorwort: Marcos Cueto
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 0-262-32550-0 / 0262325500
• ISBN-13: 978-0-262-32550-9 / 9780262325509