Beyond imported magic : essays on science, technology, and society in Latin America / edited by Eden Medina, Ivan da Costa Marques, and Christina Holmes ; with a foreword by Marcos Cueto.

Other author Medina, Eden, 1976- editor.
Other author Marques, Ivan da Costa, editor.
Other author Holmes, Christina, 1973- editor.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Descriptionxiii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Technology transfer--Latin America.
Science--Latin America.
Technology--Social aspects. --Latin America.

SeriesInside technology series
Inside technology. ^A268856
Contents Foreword / by Marcos Cueto -- Preface -- 1. Introduction : Beyond imported magic / Eden Medina, Ivan da Costa Marques, and Christina Holmes -- 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, and Hernán Thomas ; 4. Working with care : narratives of invisible women scientists practicing forensic genetics in Colombia / Tania Pérez-Bustos, María Fernanda Olarte Sierra, and 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 and Eden Medina -- 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 and 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 G. 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, and Dominique Vinck ; 12. Latin America as laboratory : the camera and the Yale Peruvian Expeditions / Amy Cox Hall -- Part Ill. 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 and Edna Suárez-Díaz ; 15. Neoliberalism as political technology : expertise, energy, and democracy in Chile / Manuel Tironi and Javiera Barandiarán ; 16. Creole interferences : a conflict over biodiversity and ownership in the south of Brazil / Ana Delgado and Israel Rodríguez-Giralt ; 17. The juridical hospital : patient-citizen-consumers claiming the right to health in Brazilian courts / João Biehl.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2013046628
ISBN9780262027458 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0262027453 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780262526203 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0262526204 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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