Essays about: "sociotechnical imaginaries"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words sociotechnical imaginaries.

1. 1. Future of Sustainable Mobility in Nordic Winter Cities : An explorative study of sociotechnical imaginaries

   University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

   Author : Moa Ribjer; [2023]
   Keywords : Winter Cities; Sustainable Mobility; Society Transformation; Sustainable Transition; Mobility Systems; Sociotechnical Imaginaries; vinterstäder; hållbar mobilitet; samhällsomställning; hållbar transformation; mobilitetssystem; sociotekniska föreställningar;

   Abstract : The thesis aims to explore future mobility system alternatives in the context of “winter cities” to achieve a more sustainable society. This is done by interviewing a broad range of mobility experts - encompassing those focused on cities in the northern regions and those with global expertise. READ MORE

3. 2. Imagining Arms : Rationality and the Sociotechnical Imaginary of Swedish Defense Requirements Engineering

   University essay from Försvarshögskolan

   Author : John Welsh; [2023]
   Keywords : Requirements Engineering; Rationality; Science and Technology Studies; Sociotechnical Imaginaries; Defense Systems;

   Abstract : Despite significant efforts at improving requirements engineering in the development of military systems, defense procurement is still plagued by expensive, well-publicized failures. Central to requirements engineering is the concept of rationality – more reason is assumed to eventually ‘solve’ the problem of defense requirements engineering. READ MORE

4. 3. Transcending Power: Investigating the European Union as a Mouthpiece for Transhumanist Thought

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Amos Strömberg; [2023]
   Keywords : Foucauldian discourse analysis; transhumanism; the European Union; sociotechnical imaginaries; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study arises from an existential concern that there is an obliviousness in academia with regards to the recent eruption of the transhumanist movement–an ideological force imbued with potentially calamitous socioecological consequences. With the support from recent claims that the transhumanist ideology exerts powerful influence on Western politics, this study seeks to investigate how the transhumanist ideology has become diluted into parts of the European Union and why this should be a concern from a human ecology lens. READ MORE

5. 4. SOCIOTECHNICAL IMAGINARIES OF LOCAL ENERGY TRANSITION:CO-PRODUCING LOCK-INS IN THE STUDY OF ENERGY COMMUNITY ON GOTLAND

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Author : Orlando Loy; [2023]
   Keywords : Sociotechnical imaginaries; energy transition; energy community; Gotland; co-production; framework analysis; diffractive reading;

   Abstract : The emergence of energy communities entails the development of alternative energy systems, where consumers become active participants in the complex networks of material and semiotic actors. This paper looks at how local sociotechnical imaginaries are performed on island of Gotland, in Sweden. READ MORE

6. 5. Critical Raw Material supply chains - the Key to a Twin Transition?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Alexander Dürr; Eliza Dreiska; [2023]
   Keywords : Critical Raw Material Supply Chain Vulnerability; Import Dependency Geopolitics; Twin Transition; Critical Materials Extraction Impact; European Critical Raw Materials Act.; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The thesis investigates how the problem of Critical Raw Material supply chains is represented within the European Critical Raw Materials Act of 2023. Bacchi’s ‘What's Problem Represented To Be’ approach has been adapted and utilised to explore what aspects of these supply chains are problematised. READ MORE