ABSTRACT

Scientific discoveries or testing technical systems are often tied to places deemed central for such endeavours. Related technoscientific visions are not merely mapped onto a place like a blueprint, but co-constituted with pre-existing spatial imaginations. This is particularly so in the case of islands. Taking up Hawai‘i’s significance both for natural science and contemporary agricultural biotechnology, and expanding upon the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries (Jasanoff and Kim, 2015 Jasanoff, S. and Kim, S.-H. (Eds) (2015) Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power (Chicago: Chicago University Press).[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]), spatial imaginations of islands – as remote, contained spaces – channel, and are channeled by technoscientific, colonial visions and theories. In this context, laboratory and paradise tropes either accommodate or ‘keep out’ science and technology, and find expression in two sociotechnical island imaginaries. In an ecological island imaginary, western-scientific conceptions frame Hawai‘i as a laboratory of nature, and hosting paradise for natural sciences. Anti-GMO activists likewise articulate an ecological island imaginary, yet one of Hawai‘i as laboratory on nature, and nonabsorbable paradise in such slogans as ‘Stop Poisoning Paradise.’ In an agribusiness island imaginary, policy and industry visions portray the Islands as conducive agricultural laboratory where Edenic settings point to a hosting paradise to accommodate advancements of science, technology and business. Laboratory and paradise tropes indicate shared epistemic commitments across diverse sociotechnical island imaginaries, as well as divergences, such as in efforts to decolonize science. An analysis of overlapping and contrary sociotechnical island imaginaries that attends to such key visions allows for delineating heterogeneous dynamics beyond conventional categories like biodiversity, science, or culture.

摘要

科学发现或测试技术系统通常与被认为是此类工作的中心的地方有关。相关的技术科学愿景不仅像蓝图一样映射到一个地方，而且与预先存在的空间想象共同构成。在岛屿的情况下尤其如此。考虑夏威夷对自然科学和当代农业生物技术的重要性，并扩展社会技术想象的概念（Jasanoff 和 Kim，2015 年） Jasanoff, S.和Kim, S.-H. （编辑）（2015 年）现代性的梦想：社会技术想象和权力的制造（芝加哥：芝加哥大学出版社）。[Crossref]  , [Google Scholar] )，岛屿的空间想象——作为遥远的、封闭的空间——引导，并被技术科学、殖民愿景和理论引导。在这种情况下，实验室和天堂的比喻要么容纳要么“排斥”科学和技术，并在两个社会技术岛屿想象中找到表达。在一个生态岛想象，西方科学概念框架夏威夷作为一个实验室的自然，是自然科学的天堂。反GMO活动家也阐明了生态岛虚构，但夏威夷的一个实验室的性质，以及不可吸收的天堂在这样的口号为“停止中毒天堂。” 在想象中的农业综合企业岛中，政策和行业愿景将这些岛描绘成有利的农业实验室，伊甸园环境指向托管天堂。以适应科学、技术和商业的进步。实验室和天堂的比喻表明不同社会技术岛屿想象中的共同认知承诺，以及分歧，例如在科学非殖民化方面的努力。对关注此类关键愿景的重叠和相反的社会技术岛屿想象进行分析，可以描绘出超越生物多样性、科学或文化等传统类别的异质动态。