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Technologies in Decline - Socio-Technical Approaches to Discontinuation and Destabilisation (Paperback)
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Technologies in Decline - Socio-Technical Approaches to Discontinuation and Destabilisation (Paperback)
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The central questions of this book are how technologies decline,
how societies deal with technologies in decline, and how governance
may be explicitly oriented towards parting with 'undesirable'
technology. Surprisingly, these questions are fairly novel. Thus
far, the dominant interest in historical, economic, sociological
and political studies of technology has been to understand how
novelty emerges, how innovation can open up new opportunities and
how such processes may be supported. This innovation bias reflects
how in the last centuries modern societies have embraced technology
as a vehicle of progress. It is timely, however, to broaden the
social study of technology and society: next to considering the
rise of technologies, their fall should be addressed, too. Dealing
with technologies in decline is an important challenge or our
times, as socio-technical systems are increasingly part of the
problems of climate change, biodiversity loss, social inequalities
and geo-political tensions. This volume presents empirical studies
of technologies in decline, as well as conceptual clarifications
and theoretical deepening. Technologies in Decline presents an
emerging research agenda for the study of technological decline,
emphasising the need for a plurality of perspectives. Given that
destabilisation and discontinuation are seen as a way to accelerate
sustainability transitions, this book will be of interest to
academics, students and policy makers researching and working in
the areas of sustainability science and policy, economic geography,
innovation studies, and science and technology studies.
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