| From the vernacular engineering of Latino car
design to environmental analysis among rural women to the production of
indigenous herbal cures — groups outside the centers of
scientific power persistently defy the notion that they are merely
passive recipients of technological products and scientific knowledge.
This is the first study of how such "outsiders" reinvent consumer
products — often in ways that embody critique, resistance, or
outright revolt. |
Appropriating Technology
Vernacular Science
and Social Power
by Ron Eglash, Jennifer
L. Croissant, Giovanna Di Chiro and Rayvon Fouché
University of Minnesota
Press , 2004
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