Technocracy. Toward technocracy -- Technocratic vision for a scientific empire -- Marxism. Incomplete modernity and the problem of science -- Mapping Marxism onto the politics of the scientific -- Constructing the scientific Japanese tradition -- Popular science. The mobilizatio…
This study examines the discourse of science in Japan from the 1920s to the 1940s in relation to nationalism and imperialism.
"This study examines the discourse of science in Japan from the 1920s to the 1940s in relation to nationalism and imperialism. Focusing on three groups of science promoters - technocrats, Marxists, and popular science proponents - this work demonstrates how each group made sense…
An innovative look at Japan's wartime discourse of science and nationalism and how it shaped postwar Japan.
There has never been a better time to be a geek (or a nerd, or a dork). What was once an insult used to marginalize those curious people (in either sense of the word) and their obsessive interest in science has increasingly become a badge of honour.
There has never been a better time to be a geek (or a nerd, or a dork). What was once an insult used to marginalize those curious people (in either sense of the word) and their obsessive interest in science has increasingly become a badge of honour.
There has never been a better time to be a geek (or a nerd, or a dork). What was once an insult used to marginalize those curious people (in either sense of the word) and their obsessive interest in science has increasingly become a badge of honour.
In recent years, questions about democratic influence on science and technology have received much attention. The lesson from the European unrest over GMO is that consumer-citizens will react negatively to just having to accept the introduction of new, partly untested technologi…
In recent years, questions about democratic influence on science and technology have received much attention. The lesson from the European unrest over GMO is that consumer-citizens will react negatively to just having to accept the introduction of new, partly untested technologi…
Over the last two decades Iran has gone through major industrial transformation, in spite of major obstacles in the path of the country's development. This comprehensive book examines the Iranian government's mobilization of resources to develop science and technology, presentin…
Between 1945 and 1953, while the Soviet Union confronted postwar reconstruction and Cold War crises, its unchallenged leader Joseph Stalin carved out time to study scientific disputes and dictate academic solutions. He spearheaded a discussion of 'scientific' Marxist-Leninist ph…