Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. One. Future Imperfect: Science, Technology, and the Imaginations of Modernity 1
4. Two. Cecil Rhodes and the Making of a Sociotechnical Imaginary for South Africa 34
5. Three. Our Monsters, Ourselves: Reimagining the Problem of Knowledge in Cold War America 56
6. Four. Imagining a Modern Rwanda: Sociotechnological Imaginaries, Information Technology, and the Postgenocide State 79
7. Five. Keeping Technologies Out: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Formation of Austria’s Technopolitical Identity 103
8. Six. Remembering the Future: Science, Law, and the Legacy of Asilomar 126
9. Seven. Social Movements and Contested Sociotechnical Imaginaries in South Korea 152
10. Eight. Building from the Outside In: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Civil Society in New Order Indonesia 174
11. Nine. Guerilla Engineers: The Internet and the Politics of Freedom in Indonesia 199
12. Ten. Consuming Biotechnology: Genetically Modified Rice in China 219
13. Eleven. Imaginaries of Science and Society: Framing Nanotechnology Governance in Germany and the United States 233
14. Twelve. Corporate Imaginaries of Biotechnology and Global Governance: Syngenta, Golden Rice, and Corporate Social Responsibility 254
15. Thirteen. Globalizing Security: Science and the Transformation of Contemporary Political Imagination 277
16. Fourteen. Global Health Security and the Pathogenic Imaginary 300
17. Fifteen. Imagined and Invented Worlds 321
18. Acknowledgments 343
19. Contributor Biographies 345
20. Index 347