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Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.

Series from website; numbering on title page is #12.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-162).

Preface -- Acknowledgments --

1. Introduction -- An age of hybridity -- A hybrid imagination -- Introducing PROCEED -- The tendency to hubris -- The forces of habitus -- The structure of the book --

2. Perceptions of science and technology -- The importance of context -- The story-lines of science and technology -- Teaching contextual knowledge at Aalborg -- The economic, or innovation story-line -- The social, or construction story-line -- The cultural, or appropriation story-line --

3. Where did science and technology come from -- The rise of the west -- The medieval transition -- The renaissance as a movement -- From movements to institutions -- The scientific revolution -- The enlightenment as a movement --

4. Science, technology and industrialization -- Industrialization as a cultural process -- The first cycle -- The romantic movement -- Romantic science and technology -- Industrial society and its social movements -- William Morris and arts and crafts -- The populist sensibility --

5. Science,technology and modernization -- The third cycle -- The movements of modernity -- What was modernism -- A hybrid imagination in action: the Bauhaus -- Humanizing the technological civilization -- Anti-colonial hybrids: Gandhi and Tagore -- From modernism to modernization -- The militarization of modernity --

6. Science, technology and globalization -- A new mode of science and technology -- From little science to big science -- A period of questioning and critique -- From counterculture to the information age -- From big science to technoscience --

7. The greening of science and technology -- The making of green knowledge -- A mixing of traditions -- A period of politicization -- Normalization and the rise of green business -- Combining environmentalism and justice -- Contending approaches to greening --

Bibliography -- Authors' biographies.

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This book presents a cultural perspective on scientific and technological development. As opposed to the "story-lines" of economic innovation and social construction that tend to dominate both the popular and scholarly literature on science, technology and society (or STS), the authors offer an alternative approach, devoting special attention to the role played by social and cultural movements in the making of science and technology. They show how social and cultural movements, from the Renaissance of the late 15th century to the environmental and global justice movements of our time, have provided contexts, or sites, for mixing scientific knowledge and technical skills from different fields and social domains into new combinations, thus fostering what the authors term a "hybrid imagination." Such a hybrid imagination is especially important today, as a way to counter the competitive and commercial "hubris" that is so much taken for granted in contemporary science and engineering discourses and practices with a sense of cooperation and social responsibility. The book portrays the history of science and technology as an underlying tension between hubris - literally the ambition to "play god" on the part of many a scientist and engineer and neglect the consequences - and a hybrid imagination, connecting scientific "facts" and technological "artifacts" with cultural understanding. The book concludes with chapters on the recent transformations in the modes of scientific and technological production since the Second World War and the contending approaches to "greening" science and technology in relation to the global quest for sustainable development. The book is based on a series of lectures that were given by Andrew Jamison at the Technical University of Denmark in 2010 and draws on the authors' many years of experience in teaching non-technical, or contextual knowledge, to science and engineering students. The book has been written as part of the Program of Research on Opportunities and Challenges in Engineering Education in Denmark (PROCEED) supported by the Danish Strategic Research Council from 2010 to 2013.

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