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Sang-Hyun Kim |
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Associate Professor (HK) |
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shkim67@hanyang.ac.kr |
Research interests |
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Originally trained as a materials chemist (D.Phil., Oxford), Sang-Hyun Kim later switched to the humanities & social sciences and received his Ph.D. in history and sociology of science from the University of Edinburgh, U.K. His Ph.D. work at Edinburgh examined the social history of climate science in Britain during the period from the 1950s to mid-1980s. More recently, Kim’s research has focused on the cultural politics of science and technology in Korea. He has conducted research on the historical formation and cultural foundations of South Korea’s dominant “sociotechnical imaginaries”―that is, collectively imagined forms of social life and order through and within which the meanings, purposes, and priorities of science and technology are co-produced with distinctive ideas of public good, the state and nationhood. Kim is also beginning a new project to explore the intersection of the history and sociology of the social and human sciences, critical development studies, and science and technology studies. |
PhD |
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University of Edinburgh (U.K.) |
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Articles |
- “Containing the Atom: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Nuclear Power in the United States and South Korea,“ Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning & Policy, 47(2) (2009): 119-146 [co-authored with Sheila Jasanoff].
- “Public Bioethics and the Politics of Expertise: The Case of the Korean Bioethics Advisory Commission,” Economy and Society (Journal of the Korean Critical Sociological Association), 93 (2012): 42-71 [in Korean].
- “Sociotechnical Imaginaries and National Energy Policies,” Science as Culture, 22(2) (2013): 189-196 [co-authored with Sheila Jasanoff].
- “The Politics of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in South Korea: Contesting National Sociotechnical Imaginaries,” Science as Culture, 23(3) (2014): 293-319.
- “From Intellectual History and the History of Ideas to the History of the Social Sciences,” Journal of the Korean History of Science Society, 38(1) (2016): 151-8 [in Korean].
- “Historiography of Bioethics as Expert Knowledge and Discipline” (in preparation).
- “Science, Technology, and the Imagination of Modern Korea: A Historical Overview” (in preparation).
- “Opposition Movements and Sociotechnical Imaginaries under the Park Chung Hee Regime” [in Korean] (in preparation).
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Book Chapters |
- “Social Movements and the Contestation of Sociotechnical Imaginaries in South Korea,” in Sheila Jasanoff and Sang-Hyun Kim (eds.) Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power (University of Chicago Press, 2015): 152-173.
- “Science and Technology: National Identity, Self-reliance, Technocracy and Biopolitics,” in Paul Corner and Jie-Hyun Lim (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Mass Dictatorship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016): 81-96.
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Books |
- Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power (University of Chicago Press, 2015) [co-edited with Sheila Jasanoff].
- An Invitation to Transnational Humanities (Hanyang University Press, 2017) [editor]
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