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Vulnerability in technological cultures : new directions in research and governance / edited by Anique Hommels, Jessica Mesman, Wiebe E. Bijker.
Series: Inside technologyPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]Description: xi, 382 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780262525800
- 0262525801
- T14.5 .V85 2014
Contents:
Subject: Applying the tools of STS to explore why the "unbuilding of cities"--the reconfiguration and redesign of existing urban structures--becomes a contested and time-consuming process.
Studying vulnerability in technological cultures / Wiebe Bijker, Anique Hommels, and Jessica Mesman --
Agricultural change in a South Indian village : an account of the multiplicity of vulnerable livelihoods / Julia Quartz --
Cultural politics of vulnerability : historical-ethnography of dearth and debt, and farmers' suicides in India / Esha Shah --
Relocation of vulnerability in neonatal intensive care medicine / Jessica Mesman --
Vulnerability and development : Bhopal's lasting legacy / Sheila Jasanoff --
Narratives of vulnerability and violence : retelling the Gujarat riots / Shiv Visvanathan and Teesta Setelvad --
Creative dissent : linking vulnerability and knowledge in India / C. Shambu Prasad --
Resilience : contingency, complexity, and practice / Stephen Healy and Jessica Mesman --
Entrainment, imagination, and vulnerability : lessons from large-scale accidents in the offshore industry / Ger Wackers --
Vulnerable practices : organizing through bricolage in railroad maintenance / Johan M. Sanne --
Governing a vulnerable society : toward a precaution-based approach / Gerard de Vries, Imrat Verhoeven, and Martin Boeckhout --
Regulating risks by rules : compliance and negotiated drift in the Dutch chemical industry under the Seveso regime / Anique Hommels [and others] --
Dealing with vulnerability : balancing prevention with resilience as a method of governance / Ger Palmboom and Dick Willems --
A pragmatist approach to the governance of vulnerability / Jozef Keulartz and Maartje Schermer --
From sustainability to transformation : dynamics and diversity in reflexive governance of vulnerability / Andy Stirling.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-372) and index.
Studying vulnerability in technological cultures / Wiebe Bijker, Anique Hommels, and Jessica Mesman --
Agricultural change in a South Indian village : an account of the multiplicity of vulnerable livelihoods / Julia Quartz --
Cultural politics of vulnerability : historical-ethnography of dearth and debt, and farmers' suicides in India / Esha Shah --
Relocation of vulnerability in neonatal intensive care medicine / Jessica Mesman --
Vulnerability and development : Bhopal's lasting legacy / Sheila Jasanoff --
Narratives of vulnerability and violence : retelling the Gujarat riots / Shiv Visvanathan and Teesta Setelvad --
Creative dissent : linking vulnerability and knowledge in India / C. Shambu Prasad --
Resilience : contingency, complexity, and practice / Stephen Healy and Jessica Mesman --
Entrainment, imagination, and vulnerability : lessons from large-scale accidents in the offshore industry / Ger Wackers --
Vulnerable practices : organizing through bricolage in railroad maintenance / Johan M. Sanne --
Governing a vulnerable society : toward a precaution-based approach / Gerard de Vries, Imrat Verhoeven, and Martin Boeckhout --
Regulating risks by rules : compliance and negotiated drift in the Dutch chemical industry under the Seveso regime / Anique Hommels [and others] --
Dealing with vulnerability : balancing prevention with resilience as a method of governance / Ger Palmboom and Dick Willems --
A pragmatist approach to the governance of vulnerability / Jozef Keulartz and Maartje Schermer --
From sustainability to transformation : dynamics and diversity in reflexive governance of vulnerability / Andy Stirling.
Applying the tools of STS to explore why the "unbuilding of cities"--the reconfiguration and redesign of existing urban structures--becomes a contested and time-consuming process.
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