edited by Anique Hommels, Jessica Mesman, Wiebe E. Bijker
xi, 382 pages ;
23 cm
Inside technology
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-372) and index
Studying vulnerability in technological cultures / Wiebe Bijker, Anique Hommels, and Jessica Mesman -- Agricultural change in a South Indian village : an account of the multiplicity of vulnerable livelihoods / Julia Quartz -- Cultural politics of vulnerability : historical-ethnography of dearth and debt, and farmers' suicides in India / Esha Shah -- Relocation of vulnerability in neonatal intensive care medicine / Jessica Mesman -- Vulnerability and development : Bhopal's lasting legacy / Sheila Jasanoff -- Narratives of vulnerability and violence : retelling the Gujarat riots / Shiv Visvanathan and Teesta Setelvad -- Creative dissent : linking vulnerability and knowledge in India / C. Shambu Prasad -- Resilience : contingency, complexity, and practice / Stephen Healy and Jessica Mesman -- Entrainment, imagination, and vulnerability : lessons from large-scale accidents in the offshore industry / Ger Wackers -- Vulnerable practices : organizing through bricolage in railroad maintenance / Johan M. Sanne -- Governing a vulnerable society : toward a precaution-based approach / Gerard de Vries, Imrat Verhoeven, and Martin Boeckhout -- Regulating risks by rules : compliance and negotiated drift in the Dutch chemical industry under the Seveso regime / Anique Hommels ... [et al.] -- Dealing with vulnerability : balancing prevention with resilience as a method of governance / Ger Palmboom and Dick Willems -- A pragmatist approach to the governance of vulnerability / Jozef Keulartz and Maartje Schermer -- From sustainability to transformation : dynamics and diversity in reflexive governance of vulnerability / Andy Stirling