Vulnerability in Technological Cultures New Directions in Research and Governance 1st Edition by Anique Hommels, Jessica Mesman, Wiebe Bijker 9780262027106 0262027100

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ISBN 10: 0262027100

ISBN 13: 9780262027106

Author: Anique Hommels, Jessica Mesman, Wiebe E. Bijker

Analysis and case studies explore the concept of vulnerability, offering a novel and broader approach to understanding the risks and benefits of science and technology. Novel technologies and scientific advancements offer not only opportunities but risks. Technological systems are vulnerable to human error and technical malfunctioning that have far-reaching consequences: one flipped switch can cause a cascading power failure across a networked electric grid. Yet, once addressed, vulnerability accompanied by coping mechanisms may yield a more flexible and resilient society. This book investigates vulnerability, in both its negative and positive aspects, in technological cultures. The contributors argue that viewing risk in terms of vulnerability offers a novel approach to understanding the risks and benefits of science and technology. Such an approach broadens conventional risk analysis by connecting to issues of justice, solidarity, and livelihood, and enabling comparisons between the global north and south. The book explores case studies that range from agricultural practices in India to neonatal intensive care medicine in Western hospitals; these cases, spanning the issues addressed in the book, illustrate what vulnerability is and does. The book offers conceptual frameworks for empirical description and analysis of vulnerability that elucidate its ambiguity, context dependence, and constructed nature. Finally, the book addresses the implications of these analyses for the governance of vulnerability, proposing a more reflexive way of dealing with vulnerability in technological cultures. 

Table of contents:

1 Studying Vulnerability in Technological Cultures

Part I Framing the Vulnerability Issue

2 Agricultural Change in a South Indian Village: An Account of the Multiplicity of Vulnerable Livelihood

3 Cultural Politics of Vulnerability: Historical-Ethnography of Dearth and Debt, and Farmers’ Suicides in India

4 Relocation of Vulnerability in Neonatal Intensive Care Medicine

5 Vulnerability and Development—Bhopal’s Lasting Legacy

6 Narratives of Vulnerability and Violence: Retelling the Gujarat Riots

Part II Exploring the Ambiguity of Vulnerability

7 Creative Dissent: Linking Vulnerability and Knowledge in India

8 Resilience: Contingency, Complexity, and Practice

9 Entrainment, Imagination, and Vulnerability—Lessons from Large-Scale Accidents in the Offshore Industry

10 Vulnerable Practices: Organizing through Bricolage in Railroad Maintenance

Part III The Governance of Vulnerability

11 Governing a Vulnerable Society: Toward a Precaution-Based Approach

12 Regulating Risks by Rules: Compliance and Negotiated Drift in the Dutch Chemical Industry under the Seveso Regime

13 Dealing with Vulnerability: Balancing Prevention with Resilience as a Method of Governance

14 A Pragmatist Approach to the Governance of Vulnerability

15 From Sustainability to Transformation: Dynamics and Diversity in Reflexive Governance of Vulnerability

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