Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power

By Sheila Jasanoff, Sang‐Hyun Kim. 2015

Citations in the corpus

• On the Circular Bioeconomy and Decoupling: Implications for Sustainable Growth (2019, background): “…economy are perfectly consistent with the description of the strategy of “raising expectations in order to mobilize resources and ‘colonize’ the future” (Brown and Michael, 2003) and with the narrative that Jasanoff and Kim (Jasanoff and Kim, 2015) call ‘the economics of technological promises’.”
• Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve? (2021, unknown): “Future visions are dominated by such constrained social imaginaries (170), and hence rarely offer a “radical departure from the past” (171, p.”
• Ordering theories: Typologies and conceptual frameworks for sociotechnical change (2017, unknown): “…action is always purposively rational, and it emphasizes a performative element to technology that ‘unlike mere ideas and fashions, sociotechnical imaginaries are collective, durable, capable of being performed; yet they are also temporally situated and culturally particular’ (Jasanoff, 2015a: 19).”