Pragmatics and Politics

McFall, Liz

doi:10.1080/17530350.2010.494124

Journal of Cultural Economy

2010

DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2010.494124

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Pragmatics and Politics

Liz McFall¹

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“…On one hand, it performs some kind of mediation by which the worth of goods Á their classification, their value, their link to other goods, and so on Á is 'enacted' (Dewey 1939). The analysis will show that this valuation process contains a 'calculation formula', solving problems such as the distribution of the benefits between the funeral economy stakeholders and the organization of a social solidarity, incorporating exigencies of justice or public concerns (Mcfall 2009(Mcfall , 2010. 2 On the other hand, to be manageable as a coordinative mechanism, the device (as a boundary object) incorporates 'a zone of ambiguity' written into it: in our case, we will see that for each device, the boundary between the public and the private realm is always vague and ambivalent, leading to the dominance of funeral entrepreneurs in the management of funerals.…”

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The Politics of Value in French Funeral Arrangements

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Energy, economics, and performativity: Reviewing theoretical advances in social studies of markets and energy

Silvast

2017

Energy Research & Social Science

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For many years, energy market design has held great promises as a solution to current energy issues; ranging from increasing international trade to emissions reduction, the securing of future electricity capacity, and increasing flexibility amid growing intermittent renewable energy resources. The emerging economic understandings of the energy infrastructure motivate conceptual and methodological innovations in the social sciences, which this paper pursues. Its first part describes recent advances in social studies of markets, which seek greater appreciation of the role of economics in the formation of markets via economic theories, instruments, and many other means. The second part focuses on emerging studies which draw on these approaches to examine energy systems including their markets, liberalisation, and sustainability. The essay brings together social studies of markets with energy and opens up important topics for understanding current energy transitions. These include how financial systems can be treated as key components of the socio-technical energy system in transition; and conversely, how the case of energy adds to the theories of social studies of markets and economics by highlighting manifold interdependencies between economics, engineering problems, existing infrastructures, and political contentions when market-based energy is at stake.

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The FDA’s standard-making process for medical digital health technologies: co-producing technological and organizational innovation

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As digital health technologies (DHT) have been embraced as a ‘panacea’ for health care systems, they have evolved from a buzzword into a high priority objective for health policy across the globe. In the realm of quality and safety standards for medical devices, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been a frontrunner in adapting its regulatory framework to DHT. However, despite the utmost relevance of quality and safety standards and their role for sustaining the innovation pathway of DHT, their actual making has not yet been subjected to in-depth social-science scrutiny. Drawing on the conceptual repertoires of Science and Technology Studies (STS), this article investigates how digital health evolved from a buzzword into an ‘object of government’, or gained material meaning and transformed into a regulatable object, by charting the standard-making process of FDA’s medical digital health policy between 2008 and 2018. From this, we reflect on the mutually sustaining dynamics between technological and organizational innovation, as the FDA’s attempts to standardize medical DHT not only shaped the lifestyle/medical boundary for DHT. It also led to significant reconfigurations within the FDA itself, while fostering a broader shift toward the uptake of alternative forms of evidence in regulatory science.

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Pragmatics and Politics

Cited by 12 publications

References 24 publications

The Politics of Value in French Funeral Arrangements

The Politics of Value in French Funeral Arrangements

Energy, economics, and performativity: Reviewing theoretical advances in social studies of markets and energy

The FDA’s standard-making process for medical digital health technologies: co-producing technological and organizational innovation

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