'From Machinofacture to Manufacture: Changing contours of the Science and Technology discourse in the 1970s and 1980s' a talk by Ms. Radhika Krishnan at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 12th August 2014
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'From Machinofacture to Manufacture: Changing contours of the Science and Technology discourse in the 1970s and 1980s' a talk by Ms. Radhika Krishnan
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Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
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Venue : Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to the Weekly Seminar on ‘From Machinofacture to Manufacture: Changing contours of the Science and Technology discourse in the 1970s and 1980s’ by Ms. Radhika Krishnan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Abstract : The 1970s and 1980s saw interesting shifts in the discourse around science and technology. The easy equation of ‘advanced’ technologies with ‘development’ was contested in myriad ways, possibly prompted by the multiple voices of dissent and resistance articulated by labourers, cultivators and adivasis. Within the scientific establishment and without, an acknowledgement of the ‘failure’ of science to address crucial questions was thus accompanied by an attempted rethinking and reshaping of science and technology. This paper essentially seeks to map the changing contours of the debate around science and technology. It revisits the debates of the 1970s and the 1980s to trace the emergence of new concepts such as scarcity and conservation within the scientific discourse. It notes the somewhat muted appeals for a fresh engagement and reordering of ‘science’ and concomitant interrogation of not just the methodologies and content but also of the very intent of existing technological regimes. The varied responses to the ‘Statement on Scientific Temper’ released in 1982, the growth and expansion of the ‘People Science Movements’ and the establishment of ‘alternative’ departments such as ‘Application of Science and Technology for Rural Areas’ (ASTRA) and ‘Rural Development and Technology’ (RDAT) within the premier institutions of science and technology in this era are also studied in this effort to understand these attempted shifts in focus from ‘machinofacture to manufacture’, as the scientist Amulya Reddy put it.
Speaker : Ms. Radhika Krishnan has just submitted her doctoral thesis to the Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her academic interests include studying the complex interactions between the environmental movement, labour and technological regimes. She has a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from National Institute of Technology, Calicut and an M.Phil from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She worked with the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment for several years.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Venue : Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to the Weekly Seminar on ‘From Machinofacture to Manufacture: Changing contours of the Science and Technology discourse in the 1970s and 1980s’ by Ms. Radhika Krishnan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Abstract : The 1970s and 1980s saw interesting shifts in the discourse around science and technology. The easy equation of ‘advanced’ technologies with ‘development’ was contested in myriad ways, possibly prompted by the multiple voices of dissent and resistance articulated by labourers, cultivators and adivasis. Within the scientific establishment and without, an acknowledgement of the ‘failure’ of science to address crucial questions was thus accompanied by an attempted rethinking and reshaping of science and technology. This paper essentially seeks to map the changing contours of the debate around science and technology. It revisits the debates of the 1970s and the 1980s to trace the emergence of new concepts such as scarcity and conservation within the scientific discourse. It notes the somewhat muted appeals for a fresh engagement and reordering of ‘science’ and concomitant interrogation of not just the methodologies and content but also of the very intent of existing technological regimes. The varied responses to the ‘Statement on Scientific Temper’ released in 1982, the growth and expansion of the ‘People Science Movements’ and the establishment of ‘alternative’ departments such as ‘Application of Science and Technology for Rural Areas’ (ASTRA) and ‘Rural Development and Technology’ (RDAT) within the premier institutions of science and technology in this era are also studied in this effort to understand these attempted shifts in focus from ‘machinofacture to manufacture’, as the scientist Amulya Reddy put it.
Speaker : Ms. Radhika Krishnan has just submitted her doctoral thesis to the Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her academic interests include studying the complex interactions between the environmental movement, labour and technological regimes. She has a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from National Institute of Technology, Calicut and an M.Phil from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She worked with the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment for several years.
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