Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation (ed.) (2006), New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books

Edited by Helga Nowotny

Table of Content

List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: The Quest for Innovation and Cultures of Technology. Helga Nowotny 1

Part I: On the Relationship between Culture, Technology, and Innovation
Chapter 1: Culture and Innovation. Thomas P. Hughes 27
Chapter 2: The Unintended Consequences of Innovation: Change and Community at MIT. Rosalind Williams 39
Chapter 3: The Vulnerability of Technological Culture. Wiebe E. Bijker 52

Part II: The Gender Bias of Technological Innovations
Chapter 4: Culture of Gender, and Culture of Technology: The Gendering of Things in France´s Office Spaces between 1890 and 1930. Delphine Gardey 73
Chapter 5: Suspending Gender? Reflecting in Innovations in Cyberspace.Judy Wajcman 95

Part III: Pluralist Histories of Science, Innovation, and War
Chapter 6: Innovation, Diverse Knowledges, and the Presumed Singularity of Science. John V. Pichstone 113
Chapter 7: Scientists on the Battlefield: Cultures and Conflicts. Jean-Jacques Salomon 133

Part IV: The Adaption of Innovations in the Differrent Cultural Contexts
Chapter 8: From Prophecies of the Future to Incarnations of the Past: Cultures of Nuclear Technology. Patrick Kupper 155
Chapter 9: The Mining Industry in Traditional Chin: Intra- and Intercultural Comparisons. Hans Ulrich Vogel 167

Epilogue: Interdisciplinarity and the Innovation Process How to Organize Spaces of Translation, or, the Politics of Innovation. Joachim Nettelbeck 		191

Contributors
197
Select Bibliography 199
Index 213