dc.contributor.author | FRESSOZ, Jean-Baptiste | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-05-23T13:40:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-05-23T13:40:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
dc.identifier.citation | History and technology, 2007, 23, 4, 333-350 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0734-1512 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/17405 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article aims at historicizing the 'risk society' thesis (Ulrich Beck). I first present an important book by Eugène Huzar, La Fin du monde par la science (Paris: Dentu, 1855). The author reflects upon the global catastrophes produced by new technologies and tries to imagine a safer way of governing science and nature. I contextualize this work by providing a series of case studies on various 19th-century technological controversies (ranging from deforestation to vaccination and the chemical industry). I argue that, in every case, what is usually put under the label 'resistance' to progress was in fact crucial for the shaping of safer technologies. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.subject | Genealogy | |
dc.subject | History | |
dc.subject | Technological change | |
dc.subject | New technology | |
dc.subject | Resistance | |
dc.subject | Risk | |
dc.subject | Historical analysis | |
dc.subject | Beck, Ulrich | |
dc.title | Beck back in the 19th century: towards a genealogy of risk society | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/07341510701527419 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 23 | |
dc.identifier.startpage | 333 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 350 | |
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dc.identifier.issue | 4 | |