Table of Contents
Introduction: Shaping the Future through Imaginaries of Science, Technology and Society
Gert Verschraegen and Frédéric Vandermoere
PART I – SHAPING HUMAN NATURE
Bioethics and the Legitimation/Regulation of the Imagined Future
Ari Schick
The New Biology of the Social: Shaping Humans’ Future, Science, and Public Health
Jan Baedke
Working Imagination along the Food-Drug Divide
Kim Hendrickx
PART II – SHAPING TECHNO-NATURES
Competing, Conflicting and Contested Futures: Temporal Imaginaries in the GM Crops Controversy
Andreas Mitzschke
Preserving Landscapes and Re-ordering Science-Society Relations: Imagining the Future in Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research
Thomas Völker
An Automobile Nation at the Crossroads: Re-imagining Germany’s Car Society through the Electrification of Transportation
Alexander Wentland
PART III – SHAPING SOCIETIES
Parameters of Nation-ness and Citizenship in Belgium (1846-1947)
Kaat Louckx
‘Make me happy and I shall again be virtuous’: Science Fiction and the Utopian Surplus of Science
Tom Moylan
Shaping New Horizons: Proactionary Attitudes, Precautionary Principles, and the Experimentalities of Science in Society
Matthias Gross