{"product_id":"9781789620283-final-frontiers","title":"Final Frontiers","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eScience Fiction and Techno-Science in Non-Aligned India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first sustained exploration of therelationship between post-colonial science fiction, Indian techno-scientificpolicies, and the non-aligned movement. It shows the critical role played bythe science fiction genre in imagining alternative pathways for scientific and geo-politicaldevelopments to those that dominate our lives now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Science Fiction Research Association Book Award 2021.\u003c\/b\u003eThis is the first book-length study of the relationship between science fiction, the techno-scientific policies of independent India, and the global non-aligned movement that emerged as a response to the Cold War and decolonization. Today, we see the trend of science fiction writers being used by governments as advisors on techno-scientific policies and defence industries. But such relationships between literature, policy and geo-politics have a long and complex history. Glimpses of this history can be seen in the case of the first generation of post-colonial Indian science  fiction writers, the policies of scientific and technological development in independent India, and the political strategy of non-alignment advocated by India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, who proposed that Third World nations should maintain an equal distance between  Washington and Moscow. Such a perspective reveals the surprisingly long and relatively unknown life of Indian science fiction, as well as the  critical role played by the genre in imagining alternative pathways for scientific and geo-political developments to those that dominate our lives now.\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40757993865313,"sku":"9781789620283","price":124.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_33802099.jpg?v=1744897952","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781789620283-final-frontiers","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}