Beyond imported magic : essays on science, technology, and society in Latin America

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Title:

Beyond imported magic : essays on science, technology, and society in Latin America

Author:

Medina, Eden, 1976- editor.

ISBN:

9780262027458

9780262526203

Physical Description:

xiii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Inside technology series

Inside technology.

Contents:

Foreword / by Preface -- Introduction : Beyond imported magic / Latin American Perspectives on Science, Technology, and Society. Who invented Brazil? / Innovation and inclusive development in the South : a critical perspective / Working with care : narratives of invisible women scientists practicing forensic genetics in Colombia / Ontological politics and Latin American local knowledges / Technology in an expanded field : a review of history of technology scholarship on Latin America in selected English-language journals / Local and Global Networks of Innovation.

South Atlantic crossings : fingerprints, science, and the state in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Argentina / Tropical assemblage : the Soviet Large Panel in Cuba / Balancing design : OLPC engineers and ICT translations at the periphery / Translating magic : the charisma of One Laptop per Child's XO laptop in Paraguay / Nanoscience and nanotechnology : how an emerging area on the scientific agenda of the core countries has been adopted and transformed in Latin America / Latin America as laboratory : the camera and the Yale Peruvian Expeditions / Science, Technology, and Latin American Politics. Bottling atomic energy : technology, politics, and the state in Peronist Argentina / Peaceful atoms in Mexico^^

Neoliberalism as political technology : expertise, energy, and democracy in Chile / Creole interferences : a conflict over biodiversity and ownership in the south of Brazil / The juridical hospital : patient-citizen-consumers claiming the right to health in Brazilian courts

Subject Term:

Technology transfer -- Latin America.

Science -- Latin America.

Technology -- Social aspects -- Latin America.

Added Author:

Medina, Eden, 1976-

Marques, Ivan da Costa,

Holmes, Christina, 1973-

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Summary

Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South.

The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the global North to the global South--the view of technology as "imported magic." They describe not only alternate pathways for innovation, invention, and discovery but also how ideas and technologies circulate in Latin American contexts and transnationally. The contributors' explorations of these issues, and their examination of specific Latin American experiences with science and technology, offer a broader, more nuanced understanding of how science, technology, politics, and power interact in the past and present.

The essays in this book use methods from history and the social sciences to investigate forms of local creation and use of technologies; the circulation of ideas, people, and artifacts in local and global networks; and hybrid technologies and forms of knowledge production. They address such topics as the work of female forensic geneticists in Colombia; the pioneering Argentinean use of fingerprinting technology in the late nineteenth century; the design, use, and meaning of the XO Laptops created and distributed by the One Laptop per Child Program; and the development of nuclear energy in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile.

Contributors
Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Morgan G. Ames, Javiera Barandiarán, João Biehl, Anita Say Chan, Amy Cox Hall, Henrique Cukierman, Ana Delgado, Rafael Dias, Adriana Díaz del Castillo H., Mariano Fressoli, Jonathan Hagood, Christina Holmes, Matthieu Hubert, Noela Invernizzi, Michael Lemon, Ivan da Costa Marques, Gisela Mateos, Eden Medina, María Fernanda Olarte Sierra, Hugo Palmarola, Tania Pérez-Bustos, Julia Rodriguez, Israel Rodríguez-Giralt, Edna Suárez Díaz, Hernán Thomas, Manuel Tironi, Dominique Vinck