Imaginaries of care and science in anthropocene utopian futurology: The Sociology of science in Kim S. Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future

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dc.abstract.enThe article analyzes climate fiction utopia ‘Ministry for the Future’ by Kim S. Robinson. The analytical method relies on the framework of sociotechnical imaginaries proposed by Sheila Jasanoff and Sang-Hyun Kim and combines it with the critical history of science and feminist studies of care. Since in the process of writing the novel its author went through numerous consultations with scientists, in the article this oeuvre is analyzed both as a piece of science fiction and as a futurology essay. It is examined how the institutions of science are portrayed, how society of citizens is imagined and how this vision of the future remains trapped in the misconceptions regarding science that result from the Cold War modernistic propaganda of science. On the basis of this analysis, the article offers a discussion of how the imaginaries of Anthropocene are likely to repeat such tropes, unless history of science and sociology of science during the Cold War becomes a necessary part of the Anthropocene studies.
dc.affiliationWydział Nauk Społecznych
dc.contributor.authorZaród, Marcin
dc.date.access2024-04-18
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-26T10:26:33Z
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dc.date.created2024-02-06
dc.date.issued2024-04-18
dc.description.abstract<jats:p>The article analyzes climate fiction utopia ‘Ministry for the Future’ by Kim S. Robinson. The analytical method relies on the framework of sociotechnical imaginaries proposed by Sheila Jasanoff and Sang-Hyun Kim and combines it with the critical history of science and feminist studies of care. Since in the process of writing the novel its author went through numerous consultations with scientists, in the article this oeuvre is analyzed both as a piece of science fiction and as a futurology essay. It is examined how the institutions of science are portrayed, how society of citizens is imagined and how this vision of the future remains trapped in the misconceptions regarding science that result from the Cold War modernistic propaganda of science. On the basis of this analysis, the article offers a discussion of how the imaginaries of Anthropocene are likely to repeat such tropes, unless history of science and sociology of science during the Cold War becomes a necessary part of the Anthropocene studies.</jats:p>
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dc.identifier.doi10.24425/sts.2024.151016
dc.identifier.issn2545-2770
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/1043
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dc.pbn.affiliationnauki socjologiczne
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dc.subject.enAnthropocene
dc.subject.ensociology of science
dc.subject.endiscourse analysis
dc.subject.enscience fiction
dc.subject.enfuturism
dc.subject.enmodernity
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dc.titleImaginaries of care and science in anthropocene utopian futurology: The Sociology of science in Kim S. Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future
dc.title.journalStudia Socjologiczne
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