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Engineering and War - Militarism, Ethics, Institutions, Alternatives (Paperback)
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Engineering and War - Militarism, Ethics, Institutions, Alternatives (Paperback)
Series: Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Technology, & Society
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This book investigates the close connections between engineering
and war, broadly understood, and the conceptual and structural
barriers that face those who would seek to loosen those
connections. It shows how military institutions and interests have
long influenced engineering education, research, and practice and
how they continue to shape the field in the present. The book also
provides a generalized framework for responding to these influences
useful to students and scholars of engineering, as well as
reflective practitioners. The analysis draws on philosophy,
history, critical theory, and technology studies to understand the
connections between engineering and war and how they shape our very
understandings of what engineering is and what it might be. After
providing a review of diverse dimensions of engineering itself, the
analysis shifts to different dimensions of the connections between
engineering and war. First, it considers the ethics of war
generally and then explores questions of integrity for engineering
practitioners facing career decisions relating to war. Next, it
considers the historical rise of the military-industrial-academic
complex, especially from World War II to the present. Finally, it
considers a range of responses to the militarization of engineering
from those who seek to unsettle the status quo. Only by confronting
the ethical, historical, and political consequences of engineering
for warfare, this book argues, can engineering be sensibly
reimagined.
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