Scrutinising Science

Boden, Rebecca; Cox, Deborah; Nedeva, María; Barker, Katharine

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“…Consequently, the efficient capture, control and exploitation of the surplus value of workers' labour is of central importance. Indeed, in sectors such as the science‐based industries, changes in scientists' traditional professional employment patterns and conditions consequent upon the commodification of knowledge are readily apparent (Boden et al ., 2004).…”

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Performing Women: The Gendered Dimensions of the UK New Research Economy

Fletcher

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Kent

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Gender Work & Organization

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This paper explores the development and maintenance of familiar gendered employment patterns and practices in UK universities, which are exemplars of new modes of knowledge production, commodification and marketisation. After discussing in detail the evidence of gender discrimination in UK higher education and the changes in the academic labour process consequent to the incorporation, at least at the policy level, of universities into the 'knowledge economy', institution-specific data is used to highlight the gendered aspects of the research economy from the three intermeshing perspectives of research culture, research capital and the research production process. This nexus is constructed in such a way as to systematically militate against women's full and equal involvement in research. Lack of transparency, increased competition and lower levels of collegiate activity coupled with networking based on homosociability are contributing to a research production process where women are marginalized.

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“…So‐called neoliberal (Mirowski, 2001; Lave et al. 2010) or “new public management” (Boden et al., 2004; Schimank, 2005) scientific organizations impose further political pressures on the way knowledge is produced and the forms results take. They can preshape truths that speak to power (Pellizzoni & Ylonen, 2012).…”

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Strengthening conservation science as a crisis discipline by addressing challenges of precaution, privilege, and individualism

Stirling

Burgman

2021

Conservation Biology

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Conservation science deals with crises and supports policy interventions devised to mitigate highly uncertain threats that pose irreversible harm. When conventional policy tools, such as quantitative risk assessments, are insufficient, the precautionary principle provides a practical framework and range of robust heuristics. Yet, precaution is often resisted in many policy arenas, especially those involving powerful self-interests, and this resistance is compounded by structures of privilege and competitive individualism in science. We describe key drivers and effects of such resistance in conservation science. These include a loss of rigor under uncertainty, an erosion of crisis response capabilities, and a further reinforcement of privileged interests in conservation politics. We recommend open acknowledgement of the pressures exerted by power inside science; greater recognition for the value of the precautionary principle under uncertainty; deliberate measures to resist competitive individualism; support for blind review, open science, and data sharing; and a shift from hierarchical multidisciplinarity toward more egalitarian transdisciplinarity to accelerate advances in conservation science. KEYWORDS conservation policy, disciplinary privilege, individualism, power in science, precautionary principle PALABRAS CLAVE individualismo, principio de precaución, privilegio disciplinario, poder en la ciencia, política de conservación 1738

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“…7 These are the threads of an ongoing process that started in the 1970s, apparently gained speed in the 1980s but has never been fully realised, especially in Britain, were a biotech industry has never emerged on the same scale as in the Bay Area. If commercialisation in the university is the transformative thread that most closely binds these three books, no simple picture of the path from there to here emerges.…”

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Plasmids, patents and the historian

Charnley

2016

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

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Scrutinising Science

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Performing Women: The Gendered Dimensions of the UK New Research Economy

Performing Women: The Gendered Dimensions of the UK New Research Economy

Strengthening conservation science as a crisis discipline by addressing challenges of precaution, privilege, and individualism

Plasmids, patents and the historian

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