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Introduction Introduction
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From the 1940s to the 1960s: An Era of Rebuilding and Reconstruction From the 1940s to the 1960s: An Era of Rebuilding and Reconstruction
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From the 1960s to the 1980s: A Period of Debate and Reform From the 1960s to the 1980s: A Period of Debate and Reform
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From the 1980s to the New Millennium: The Age of Commercialization From the 1980s to the New Millennium: The Age of Commercialization
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31 Science and Technology in Postwar Europe
Get accessAndrew Jamison has an undergraduate degree in history and science from Harvard University (1970) and a PhD from University of Gothenburg in theory of science (1983). He was director of the graduate programme in science and technology policy at the University of Lund from 1986 to 1995, and since 1996, has been professor of technology and society at the Department of Development and Planning at Aalborg University. He was coordinator of the EU-funded project, Public Participation and Environmental Science and Technology Policy Options (PESTO), from 1996 to 1999, and is currently coordinating a Programme of Research on Opportunities and Challenges in Engineering Education in Denmark (PROCEED), from 2010 to 2013, funded by the Danish Strategic Research Council. He has published widely in the areas of environmental politics, social movements, and cultural history, most recently The Making of Green Knowledge: Environmental Politics and Cultural Transformation (2001) and, with Mikael Hård, Hubris and Hybrids: A Cultural History of Technology and Science (2005).
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Published:18 September 2012
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Abstract
In the decades that have followed World War II, science and technology have come to play ever more central roles in the lives and life worlds of Europeans. Indeed, in the twenty-first century there is very little that goes on in Europe without there being at least some influence from science and technology. Europe has become a place where scientific ‘facts’ and technical ‘artifacts’ permeate our existence. They have infiltrated our languages, altered our behaviour, changed our habits, and, perhaps most fundamentally, imposed their instrumental logic – what philosophers call technological rationality – on our social interaction and the ways in which we communicate with one another. The advent of industrialisation led to the formation of a number of new scientific and engineering fields – thermodynamics, biochemistry, public health, electrical engineering, city planning, among others – and new forms of higher education and communication. This article focuses on science and technology in postwar Europe, and looks at postwar reconstruction, reform, and the age of commercialisation.
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