1st Edition
Imagined Futures in Science, Technology and Society
Introduction: Shaping the Future through Imaginaries of Science, Technology and Society
Gert Verschraegen and Frédéric Vandermoere
PART I – SHAPING HUMAN NATURE
Bioethics and the Legitimation/Regulation of the Imagined Future
Ari Schick
The New Biology of the Social: Shaping Humans’ Future, Science, and Public Health
Jan Baedke
Working Imagination along the Food-Drug Divide
Kim Hendrickx
PART II – SHAPING TECHNO-NATURES
Competing, Conflicting and Contested Futures: Temporal Imaginaries in the GM Crops Controversy
Andreas Mitzschke
Preserving Landscapes and Re-ordering Science-Society Relations: Imagining the Future in Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research
Thomas Völker
An Automobile Nation at the Crossroads: Re-imagining Germany’s Car Society through the Electrification of Transportation
Alexander Wentland
PART III – SHAPING SOCIETIES
Parameters of Nation-ness and Citizenship in Belgium (1846-1947)
Kaat Louckx
‘Make me happy and I shall again be virtuous’: Science Fiction and the Utopian Surplus of Science
Tom Moylan
Shaping New Horizons: Proactionary Attitudes, Precautionary Principles, and the Experimentalities of Science in Society
Matthias Gross
Biography
Gert Verschraegen is Associate Professor in the department of Sociology at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Frédéric Vandermoere is professor in the department of sociology at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Luc Braeckmans is Professor in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Barbara Segaert holds a master diploma in Oriental Studies, Islamic Studies and Arab Philology (KU Leuven), Belgium and a master in the Social Sciences (Open University), UK.
