Beyond Imported Magic : Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America.
Medina, Eden.
Beyond Imported Magic : Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (411 pages) - Inside Technology Series . - Inside Technology Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Beyond Imported Magic -- Part I: Latin American Perspectives on Science, Technology, and Society -- 2 Who Invented Brazil? -- 3 Innovation and Inclusive Development in the South: A Critical Perspective -- 4 Working with Care: Narratives of Invisible Women Scientists Practicing Forensic Genetics in Colombia -- 5 Ontological Politics and Latin American Local Knowledges -- 6 Technology in an Expanded Field: A Review of History of Technology Scholarship on Latin America in Selected English-Language Journals -- Part II: Local and Global Networks of Innovation -- 7 South Atlantic Crossings: Fingerprints, Science, and the State in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Argentina -- 8 Tropical Assemblage: The Soviet Large Panel in Cuba -- 9 Balancing Design: OLPC Engineers and ICT Translations at the Periphery -- 10 Translating Magic: The Charisma of One Laptop per Child's XO Laptop in Paraguay -- 11 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: How an Emerging Area on the Scientific Agenda of the Core Countries Has Been Adopted and Transformed in Latin America -- 12 Latin America as Laboratory: The Camera and the Yale Peruvian Expeditions -- Part III: Science, Technology, and Latin American Politics -- 13 Bottling Atomic Energy: Technology, Politics, and the State in Peronist Argentina -- 14 Peaceful Atoms in Mexico -- 15 Neoliberalism as Political Technology: Expertise, Energy, and Democracy in Chile -- 16 Creole Interferences: A Conflict over Biodiversity and Ownership in the South of Brazil -- 17 The Juridical Hospital: Patient-Citizen-Consumers Claiming the Right to Health in Brazilian Courts -- Contributors -- Index.
Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South.
9780262325509
Technology transfer -- Latin America.
Science -- Latin America.
Technology -- Social aspects -- Latin America.
Electronic books.
338.98/06
Beyond Imported Magic : Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (411 pages) - Inside Technology Series . - Inside Technology Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Beyond Imported Magic -- Part I: Latin American Perspectives on Science, Technology, and Society -- 2 Who Invented Brazil? -- 3 Innovation and Inclusive Development in the South: A Critical Perspective -- 4 Working with Care: Narratives of Invisible Women Scientists Practicing Forensic Genetics in Colombia -- 5 Ontological Politics and Latin American Local Knowledges -- 6 Technology in an Expanded Field: A Review of History of Technology Scholarship on Latin America in Selected English-Language Journals -- Part II: Local and Global Networks of Innovation -- 7 South Atlantic Crossings: Fingerprints, Science, and the State in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Argentina -- 8 Tropical Assemblage: The Soviet Large Panel in Cuba -- 9 Balancing Design: OLPC Engineers and ICT Translations at the Periphery -- 10 Translating Magic: The Charisma of One Laptop per Child's XO Laptop in Paraguay -- 11 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: How an Emerging Area on the Scientific Agenda of the Core Countries Has Been Adopted and Transformed in Latin America -- 12 Latin America as Laboratory: The Camera and the Yale Peruvian Expeditions -- Part III: Science, Technology, and Latin American Politics -- 13 Bottling Atomic Energy: Technology, Politics, and the State in Peronist Argentina -- 14 Peaceful Atoms in Mexico -- 15 Neoliberalism as Political Technology: Expertise, Energy, and Democracy in Chile -- 16 Creole Interferences: A Conflict over Biodiversity and Ownership in the South of Brazil -- 17 The Juridical Hospital: Patient-Citizen-Consumers Claiming the Right to Health in Brazilian Courts -- Contributors -- Index.
Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South.
9780262325509
Technology transfer -- Latin America.
Science -- Latin America.
Technology -- Social aspects -- Latin America.
Electronic books.
338.98/06