Nanotechnology, Governance, and Knowledge Networks in the Global South

• Main Author: Suárez Estrada, Marcela (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Technology-Sociological aspects.; Public policy.; Nanoscale science.; Nanoscience.; Nanostructures.; Nanotechnology.; Science and Technology Studies.; Public Policy.; Nanoscale Science and Technology.; Nanotechnology and Microengineering.

The seemingly unlimited technological potential of nanotechnology brings with it new practices of governance, networking, and exercising power and agency. Focusing on scholars in the Global South, this text covers nanotechnology discourses, imaginaries, and materialities as they circulate and intera...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: "The Power of Small"
•  2. Assembling Power, Agencies, and Governance in Nanotechnology Networks
• 3. Imagining a Better Future for Mexico through Nanodiscourses
• 4. Liking Governance, Agencies, and Knowledge Networks at CIMAV
• 5. CIMAV and the Weaving of Transnational Knowledge Networks
• 6.Conclusion.