Introduction: Material Worlds: Intersections of Law, Science, Technology, and Society

Faulkner, Alex; Lange, Bettina; Lawless, Christopher

doi:10.1111/j.1467-6478.2012.00567.x

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“…Actor-network theory has been adopted and deployed in many other fields beyond science and technology studies, including analyses of legal practices (Cloatre and Pickersgill, 2014; Faulkner et al, 2012), economics and markets (MacKenzie et al, 2007; Cochoy et al, 2010), and international relations, including critical security studies (see Austin et al, 2019; Braun et al, 2018; Srnicek et al, 2013). Interestingly, when actor-network theory’s theoretical and methodological repertoires travel from science and technology studies to the abovementioned disciplines, they require translation and as a result are subject to replication and differentiation, or adoption and adaption (Barry, 2013; Dányi, 2018; Walters, 2014).…”

Section: Actor-network Theory In Science and Technology Studies And Cmentioning

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Ontologically dirty knots: The production of numbers after the Srebrenica genocide

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2020

Security Dialogue

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Approximately 8,000 boys and men were killed in the 1995 Srebrenica genocide. The victims were disappeared, killed and buried in secret mass graves. In this article, I examine how forensic anthropologists, demographers and forensic geneticists produced technolegal knowledge about the number of victims in the wake of the genocide; how those numbers were validated in legal proceedings against those held responsible; and, finally, how some have tried to destabilize the numbers in attempts to deny that a genocide was committed. While numbers, and the larger category of knowledge, take centre stage in the discussion, I use Srebrenica’s aftermath to introduce the concept of ontologically dirty knots, which is an analytical and methodological innovation that enables us to produce scholarly accounts of events, such as the Srebrenica genocide, that are characterized partly by secrecy, partly by controversy and partly by materiality. It ties together meaning and materiality, signals a process that continues to evolve, and suggests that narratives about what happened are the results of entanglements, action and friction that can be undone. In these respects, the article addresses current discussions on actor-network theory within critical security studies.

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Section: Actor-network Theory In Science and Technology Studies And Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ontologically dirty knots: The production of numbers after the Srebrenica genocide

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“…These questions relate to the form of law, meaning the full panoply of legal provisions, procedures, discourses, and institutions. There has been a conscious attempt, particularly in sociolegal studies, to home in on the routine materials, everyday practices, and seemingly uneventful moments involved in administering law (e.g., Cloatre & Cowan, 2019; Faulkner, Lange, & Lawless, 2012). Riles (2005, p. 975), for example, urges legal scholars to “take on the technicalities” because technical legal devices “are precisely where the questions that interest us actually are played out.” This agenda has been taken up especially fervently by those working in the subfield of law‐and‐space (e.g., Bennett & Layard, 2015; Braverman, 2014; Valverde, 2009) and, more recently, in the associated subfield of law‐and‐time (e.g.…”

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Beyond evidence: Anticipatory regimes in law

Stokes

2020

Law & Policy

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This article lays the groundwork for a new approach to understanding how law engages with the future, based on the social science theory and practice of anticipation. Anticipation, as depicted by an extensive interdisciplinary literature, encourages a shift in attention from the future as a matter solely of probability and effect, to the future as a wider array of possibilities operating on the present. Notably absent from this literature is law. This article offers a framework for analyzing how law mobilizes future possibilities to serve present regulatory purposes, focusing in particular on the role of legal horizons, forms and affect.

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“…Is the heterogeneous nature of scientific knowledge accepted or not? At the same time, courtrooms are also the sites, where the status of experts is performed and enacted (Faulkner et al, 2012). It would be interesting to see whether new categories of “expertise” are created by the Indian judiciary or not.…”

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“…However, the “truth-seeking world of science and the justice-serving institutions of law” often encounter each other (Jasanoff, 1995). A number of scholars from science and technology studies (STS) attempted to analyze the interaction of these two prominent institutions during the last couple of decades (Bader, 2014; Cockfield, 2010; Craik, Culver, & Siebrasse, 2007; Faulkner, Lange, & Lawless, 2012; Jasanoff, 1995; Lynch, 2013; Lynch & McNally, 1999; Martire, 2010; Miller, 2014; Swanson, 2007; Vanderburg, 2007). The existing literature is, however, skewed toward developed countries; studies from developing countries dealing with science and law within the STS domain is scantly available (Chowdhury, 2014).…”

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Drinking Water Quality in Indian Water Policies, Laws, and Courtrooms: Understanding the Intersections of Science and Law in Developing Countries

Sharma

2017

Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society

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Drinking water quality has drawn enormous attention from scientific communities, the industrial sector, and the common public in several countries during the last couple of decades. The scholarship in science and technology studies somehow overlooked this crucial domain. This article attempts to contribute to this gray area by exploring how drinking water quality is understood in Indian water policies, laws, and courtrooms. The article argues that water policies and laws in India were significantly shaped by international treaties and global environmental stewardship. In the courtrooms, the Indian judiciary employed minimum science-based evidence in decision making in the context of drinking water–related cases; rather they used a rights-based approach and minimally engaged with the issue of drinking water quality/standards. Whatever little science used as valid science by the judges in the decision making was entirely expert-based. The reliance of the judges on the scientific expertise of the experts representing regulatory organizations and public institutions was another unique characteristic of the relationship between science and law in India.

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Introduction: Material Worlds: Intersections of Law, Science, Technology, and Society

Abstract: ‘Material’: n. The substance or substances out of which a thing is or can be made. adj. Being both relevant and consequential; crucial; ‘testimony material to the inquiry’.

Cited by 30 publications

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Ontologically dirty knots: The production of numbers after the Srebrenica genocide

Ontologically dirty knots: The production of numbers after the Srebrenica genocide

Beyond evidence: Anticipatory regimes in law

Drinking Water Quality in Indian Water Policies, Laws, and Courtrooms: Understanding the Intersections of Science and Law in Developing Countries

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