Overview
- Attempts to go beyond taking a neutral focus on knowledge networks by proposing a new perspective to analyze them as being dynamic
- Highlights the agency and dynamic capacity of non-state actors and the ways in which they affect networks
- Analyzes the different sources of power shaping nanotechnology, reveals the tensions and asymmetries in transnational nanotechnology networks, and presents evidence of shifting power in nanotechnology networks
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Reviews
“This book makes a welcome contribution to STS scholarship by analyzing the dynamics of knowledge networks of nanotechnology from the perspective of the Global South. It persuasively proposes a new stage in the analysis of networks of governance—conceiving them as complex phenomena in terms of the asymmetries, representations, and discourses in constant motion in the exercising of power by scientists.” (Hebe Vessuri, Principal Researcherat the IPCSH, CONICET, Argentina)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Marcela Suárez Estrada is a research fellow and lecturer at the Lateinamerika-Institut at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nanotechnology, Governance, and Knowledge Networks in the Global South
Authors: Marcela Suárez Estrada
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69514-3
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69513-6Published: 27 November 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69514-3Published: 15 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 101
Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Science and Technology Studies, Public Policy, Nanoscale Science and Technology, Nanotechnology and Microengineering