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1 online resource (149 pages) |
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Routledge Focus on Modern Subjects Ser |
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Routledge Focus on Modern Subjects Ser
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Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Series editor's foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Entering the lab/setting the stage; 1.1 Meeting the scientist; 1.2 Entering the labs; 1.3 The first set of insights; 1.4 The structure of the book; 2 1986-2014: Making of the STM; 2.1 Nobel for the STM; 2.2 Surface science; 2.3 The STM journey in Pune; 2.4 History and geography, space and place; 3 S & T in modern India -- a brief history; 3.1 Self-reliance as a core agenda; 3.2 History of S & T narratives; 3.3 Postcolonial S & T in India |
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3.4 Contextualising the methodology4 Jugaad and its many worlds/avatars; 4.1 Understanding jugaad; 4.2 An embarrassment called jugaad?; 4.3 Technological jugaad that made the STM; 5 Dharmadhikari's microscopes and technological jugaad; 5.1 Reconfigured materiality; 5.2 Embedded in the local geography; 5.3 Critiques, questions, evaluations; 5.4 The commercialisation question; 5.5 A pedagogic tool; 5.6 Characterising technological jugaad; 6 Implications for innovation policy; 6.1 What is innovation inside a laboratory?; 6.2 Schumpeter's enduring legacy; 6.3 The Indian context -- STIP 2013 |
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6.4 India Technology Vision 20356.5 Policy implications; 7 De-centred/de-centring cultures of innovation; 7.1 Culture/cultures of innovation; 7.2 Different cultures of innovation; 7.3 Finding a middle space for innovation cultures; 8 In the end ... or call it an epilogue; 8.1 A conversation with a student; 8.2 The story of another scientist; 8.3 In the very end; Postscript; A research agenda for the future; Annexures; 1 Diary notes from my first meeting with Prof CV Dharmadhikari in December 2010 |
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2 Receipts for the purchase of soldering material, shaving blades and tungsten wire used in the labs3 Facsimile of Bendre and Dharmadhikari's 1988 paper, one of the first on an STM related subject to be published by the lab; 4 Rajendra Kshirsagar's presentation during the seminar in March 2011 to felicitate Dharmadhikari; 5 Extract of interview with Shirshendu Dey, who completed his PhD under Dharmadhikari's supervision in 2011; 6 A brief note on nanoscience and technology in India; 7 List of interviews; References; Index |
| Summary |
Instrumental Lives is an account of instrument making at the cutting edge of contemporary science and technology in a modern Indian scientific laboratory. For a period of roughly two-and-half decades, starting the late 1980s, a research group headed by CV Dharmadhikari in the physics department at the Savitribai Phule University, Pune, fabricated a range of scanning tunnelling and scanning force microscopes including the earliest such microscopes made in the country. Not only were these instruments made entirely in-house, research done using them was published in the world's leading peer reviewed journals, and students who made and trained on them went on to become top class scientists in premier institutions. The book uses qualitative research methods such as open-ended interviews, historical analysis and laboratory ethnography that are standard in Science and Technology Studies (STS), to present the micro-details of this instrument making enterprise, the counter-intuitive methods employed, and the unexpected material, human and intellectual resources that were mobilised in the process. It locates scientific research and innovation within the social, political and cultural context of a laboratory's physical location and asks important questions of the dominant narratives of innovation that remain fixated on quantitative metrics of publishing, patenting and generating commerce. The book is a story as much of the lives of instruments and their deaths as it is of the instrumentalities that make those lives possible and allow them to live on, even if with a rather precarious existence |
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Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
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Scientific apparatus and instruments -- Research -- India
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Physics -- Research -- India
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Microscopes -- Research -- India
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects.
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CV Dharmadhikari.
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innovation in India.
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scanning tunneling microscope.
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Physics -- Research
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India
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429831331 |
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0429831331 |
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9780429831324 |
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0429831323 |
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