Hawaiʻi as a Laboratory Paradise: Divergent Sociotechnical Island Imaginaries
Hawaiʻi as a Laboratory Paradise: Divergent Sociotechnical Island Imaginaries
复制标题
夏威夷作为实验室天堂：不同的社会技术岛屿想象
DOI：
10.1080/09505431.2021.1884217
复制
发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
M. Gugganig
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
M. Gugganig
科学发现或测试技术系统往往与这些努力的核心所在联系在一起。相关的技术科学愿景不仅仅是像蓝图一样映射到一个地方，而是与预先存在的空间想象共同构成。岛屿的情况尤其如此。考虑到夏威夷对自然科学和当代农业生物技术的重要性，并扩展了社会技术领域的概念（Jasanoff和Kim，2015），岛屿的空间想象-作为远程，包含空间-通道，并通过技术科学，殖民视野和理论进行引导。在这种背景下，实验室和天堂比喻要么容纳或“保持”科学和技术，并在两个社会技术的岛屿博物馆找到表达。在一个生态岛的想象中，西方科学观念将夏威夷框定为自然的实验室，自然科学的天堂。反转基因积极分子同样表达了一个想象中的生态岛，但夏威夷作为自然实验室之一，以及诸如“停止毒害天堂”之类的口号中不可吸收的天堂。在一个农业综合企业岛屿的想象中，政策和行业愿景将群岛描绘为有益的农业实验室，伊甸园式的环境指向一个托管天堂，以适应科学，技术和商业的进步。实验室和天堂的比喻表明，在不同的社会技术岛屿的共同认识的承诺，以及分歧，如在努力去殖民化科学。一个重叠和相反的社会技术岛屿的分析，出席这样的关键愿景允许描绘超出传统的类别，如生物多样性，科学，或文化的异质动态。
ABSTRACT Scientific discoveries or testing technical systems are often tied to places deemed central for such endeavours. Related technoscientific visions are not merely mapped onto a place like a blueprint, but co-constituted with pre-existing spatial imaginations. This is particularly so in the case of islands. Taking up Hawai‘i’s significance both for natural science and contemporary agricultural biotechnology, and expanding upon the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries (Jasanoff and Kim, 2015), spatial imaginations of islands – as remote, contained spaces – channel, and are channeled by technoscientific, colonial visions and theories. In this context, laboratory and paradise tropes either accommodate or ‘keep out’ science and technology, and find expression in two sociotechnical island imaginaries. In an ecological island imaginary, western-scientific conceptions frame Hawai‘i as a laboratory of nature, and hosting paradise for natural sciences. Anti-GMO activists likewise articulate an ecological island imaginary, yet one of Hawai‘i as laboratory on nature, and nonabsorbable paradise in such slogans as ‘Stop Poisoning Paradise.’ In an agribusiness island imaginary, policy and industry visions portray the Islands as conducive agricultural laboratory where Edenic settings point to a hosting paradise to accommodate advancements of science, technology and business. Laboratory and paradise tropes indicate shared epistemic commitments across diverse sociotechnical island imaginaries, as well as divergences, such as in efforts to decolonize science. An analysis of overlapping and contrary sociotechnical island imaginaries that attends to such key visions allows for delineating heterogeneous dynamics beyond conventional categories like biodiversity, science, or culture.