Dismantling Boundaries in Science and Technology Studies

Dear, Peter; Jasanoff, Sheila

doi:10.1086/657475

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“…Comparable to SSK, it underlines that scientists regularly engage in socio-cultural ‘boundary making’ to delineate science from other knowledge types (cf. Dear and Jasanoff, 2010). Significantly, civic expertise recognises that all knowledge is culturally situated and is inseparable from the context in which it is produced (Bäckstrand 2004: 704–707).…”

Section: Knowledge Cultures Concepts Of Sustainability and Environmementioning

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Mapping cultural enablers and barriers to environmental participation in Connemara: The role of lay knowledge, discourses of sustainability and ‘defensive localism’ in environmental governance

Moran

2016

Irish Journal of Sociology

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This paper focuses upon lay knowledge and sustainability concepts that shape and reflect environmental policy implementation and public reactions to environmental participatory forums in Connemara, Ireland. Drawing on in-depth qualitative fieldwork from a mixed-method study of knowledge in Connemara, the paper argues that local understandings of sustainability which prioritise lay knowledge for future generations both helps and hinders successful environmental participation. These definitions of sustainability are central to how community actors define what constitutes effective environmental participation. Many established locals draw upon these sustainability ideals to justify the deliberate exclusion of recent settlers to the area from environmental participatory forums. Insights revealed here on how local cultural conventions pertaining to language use, ‘defensive localism’ and insider–outsider distinctions affect participation in rural Ireland are highly significant for understanding barriers to effective environmental governance and the complexity of local perceptions of participation, sustainability and policy-making.

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Section: Knowledge Cultures Concepts Of Sustainability and Environmementioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping cultural enablers and barriers to environmental participation in Connemara: The role of lay knowledge, discourses of sustainability and ‘defensive localism’ in environmental governance

Moran

2016

Irish Journal of Sociology

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“…The importance of developments within science and technology during the twentieth century, and the intellectual stimulus provided by engaging with living scientists, employing interviewing and other innovative social science tools, appealed to a substantial part of the community. This was to a large extent fostered by the incorporation of ethnographic approaches to the analysis of historical case studies, which gradually spurred researchers towards more contemporary science (Dear and Jasanoff 2010). The historiography turned to issues relating to World War I and II, the formation of universityindustrial complexes and the scientific and socio-political orders following 1945 (Edgerton 1992;Edwards 1997;Lesch 2000, among others).…”

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The proactive historian: Methodological opportunities presented by the new archives documenting genomics

García-Sancho

2016

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in

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Abstract:In this paper, I propose a strategy for navigating newly available archives in the study of late-twentieth century genomics. I demonstrate that the alleged 'explosion of data' characteristic of genomics -and of contemporary science in general -is not a new problem and that historians of earlier periods have dealt with information overload by relying on the 'perspective of time': the filtering effect the passage of time naturally exerts on both sources and memories. I argue that this reliance on the selective capacity of time results in inheriting archives curated by others and, consequently, poses the risk of reifying ahistorical scientific discourses. Through a preliminary examination of archives documenting early attempts at mapping and sequencing the human genome, I propose an alternative approach, in which historians proactively problematize and improve available sources. This approach provides historians with a voice in the socio-political management of scientific heritage and advances methodological innovations in the use of oral histories. It also provides a narrative framework in which to address big science initiatives by following second order administrators, rather than individual scientists. The new genomic archives thus represent an opportunity for historians to take an active role in current debates concerning 'big data' and critically embed the humanities in pressing global problems.

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“…On what is meant by STS and how the field has taken shape in recent decades, seeDear and Jasanoff (2010).…”

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Objects and Agency: Science and Technology Studies, Latin American Studies, and Global Histories of Knowledge in the Early Modern World

Cagle

2019

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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Drawing from a combination of the author's own research on Portugal's empire and recent work across a range of disciplines, this essay discusses the growing dialogue between Latin American studies and science and technology studies (STS). It discusses key similarities and differences in the questions, methods, and theoretical frameworks which have guided research in both areas. It focuses particular attention on the divergent ways in which the two interdisciplinary arenas of scholarship have handled objects and materiality. The author argues that despite important differences in orientation, a focus on objects and materiality informed by STS perspectives can broaden the archive available to scholars of colonial Latin America, challenge and extend critical insights of colonial research, and call into question the adequacy of conventional Latin American and Atlantic spatial frameworks.

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Dismantling Boundaries in Science and Technology Studies

Cited by 39 publications

References 25 publications

Mapping cultural enablers and barriers to environmental participation in Connemara: The role of lay knowledge, discourses of sustainability and ‘defensive localism’ in environmental governance

Mapping cultural enablers and barriers to environmental participation in Connemara: The role of lay knowledge, discourses of sustainability and ‘defensive localism’ in environmental governance

The proactive historian: Methodological opportunities presented by the new archives documenting genomics

Objects and Agency: Science and Technology Studies, Latin American Studies, and Global Histories of Knowledge in the Early Modern World

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