Beyond Imported Magic Essays on Science Technology and Society in Latin America 1st Edition by Eden Medina , Ivan Da Costa Marques, Christina Holmes ISBN 0262526204 978-0262526203

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ISBN 10: 0262526204

ISBN 13: 978-0262526203 

Author: Eden Medina , Ivan Da Costa Marques, Christina Holmes

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 Souththe 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

Table of contents: 

Part I: Latin American Perspectives on Science, Technology, and Society

2. Who Invented Brazil?

• Henrique Cukierman

3. Innovation and Inclusive Development in the South: A Critical Perspective

• Mariano Fressoli, Rafael Dias, Hernán Thomas

4. Working with Care: Narratives of Invisible Women Scientists Practicing Forensic Genetics in Colombia

• Tania Pérez-Bustos, María Fernanda Olarte Sierra, Adriana Díaz del Castillo H.

5. Ontological Politics and Latin American Local Knowledges

• Ivan da Costa Marques

6. Technology in an Expanded Field: A Review of History of Technology Scholarship on Latin America in Selected English-Language Journals

• Michael Lemon, Eden Medina

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Part II: Local and Global Networks of Innovation

7. South Atlantic Crossings: Fingerprints, Science, and the State in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Argentina

• Julia Rodriguez

8. Tropical Assemblage: The Soviet Large Panel in Cuba

• Hugo Palmarola, Pedro Ignacio Alonso

9. Balancing Design: OLPC Engineers and ICT Translations at the Periphery

• Anita Say Chan

10. Translating Magic: The Charisma of One Laptop per Child’s XO Laptop in Paraguay

• Morgan C. Ames

11. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: How an Emerging Area on the Scientific Agenda of the Core Countries Has Been Adopted and Transformed in Latin America

• Noela Invernizzi, Matthieu Hubert, Dominique Vinck

12. Latin America as Laboratory: The Camera and the Yale Peruvian Expeditions

• Amy Cox Hall

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Part III: Science, Technology, and Latin American Politics

13. Bottling Atomic Energy: Technology, Politics, and the State in Peronist Argentina

• Jonathan Hagood

14. Peaceful Atoms in Mexico

• Gisela Mateos, Edna Suárez-Díaz

15. Neoliberalism as Political Technology: Expertise, Energy, and Democracy in Chile

• Manuel Tironi, Javiera Barandiarán

16. Creole Interferences: A Conflict over Biodiversity and Ownership in the South of Brazil

• Ana Delgado, Israel Rodríguez-Giralt

17. The Juridical Hospital: Patient-Citizen-Consumers Claiming the Right to Health in Brazilian Courts

• João Biehl

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