科技與國家

本課程從歷史角度探討科技與現代國家及國族主義的建構過程。現代國家不僅利用科技發展投射出一個進步的未來,凝聚國族認同,也試圖用科學的研究方法將民族起源及獨特性與地質、環境、自然連結在一起,讓國家的過去、現在與未來成為一個連續性的合理存在。討論的議題包括種族科學政策、極度現代主義與國家治理、帝國科學、科學團體、自然與環境國族主義、深度時間與國族建構、以及科技政策。雖然現代國家用科技作為國家與國族建構的工具,科技知識的流通卻跨越國境邊界。因此我們也將討論跨國與全球的知識流通網絡,以了解科技在國際政治與外交活動所扮演的角色。我們將從冷戰的歷史脈絡去探索跨國科技組織的建立與科學國際主義及科學外交的形成。This course discusses the relations between science, technology, and the construction of nation and nationalism from a historical perspective. Modern nations often strive to establish national identity through the trajectory of a progressive future made possible by scientific and technological development. However, they also look back to the past to examine the role of science in the construction of an idiosyncratic national origin. We will deal with a wide variety of ways in which modern nation-states construct national identity through science and technology, such as the implementation of racial science, high modernism and governance, imperial science, science society, nature and environmental nationalism, deep time and national construction, and science policy. While science and technology are often used as national/nationalistic tools for nation-building, the circulation of knowledge is never confined by national boundaries. Therefore we will also pay attention to the transnational and global movement of knowledge circulation and explore how science and technology are used as political and diplomatic tools in international affairs. The Cold War forms an important context for the establishment of contemporary transnational science organizations and the development of scientific internationalism and science diplomacy.

課堂討論與期末報告Participation in discussions and a final project

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