Science And Technology For Development: Development Matters
Science and Technology for Development employs a critical sociology to focus on science, technology and their relationship to development. While knowledge and the ways it is created and privileged has been increasingly critiqued, the specific role of technology in shaping development has received little focus. Science and technology are not neutral but shape their context and are shaped in return.
Organized around key ideas and debates and using case study material from Africa, Latin America and Asia, a range of technologies are examined; including biotechnology, tissue culture technology, Biofuels, ICTs, genomics and pharmaceuticals and nanotechnologies. Asking among other questions if the promise of future technological breakthroughs actually work to distance meaningful development from the present, this book is essential reading for all students of development.
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Science and Technology for Development employs a critical sociology to focus on science, technology and their relationship to development. While knowledge and the ways it is created and privileged has been increasingly critiqued, the specific role of technology in shaping development has received little focus. Science and technology are not neutral but shape their context and are shaped in return.
Organized around key ideas and debates and using case study material from Africa, Latin America and Asia, a range of technologies are examined; including biotechnology, tissue culture technology, Biofuels, ICTs, genomics and pharmaceuticals and nanotechnologies. Asking among other questions if the promise of future technological breakthroughs actually work to distance meaningful development from the present, this book is essential reading for all students of development.
Publisher: Zed Books
Paperback
2009
ISBN: 9781848132016
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