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Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and rearrange contemporary societies. The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the fi...
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The MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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| Summary: |
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and rearrange contemporary societies. The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the field, reviewing current research and major theoretical and methodological approaches in a way that is accessible to both new and established scholars from a range of disciplines. This new edition, sponsored by the Society for Social Studies of Science, is the fourth in a series of volumes that have defined the field of STS. It features 36 chapters, each written for the fourth edition, that capture the state of the art in a rich and rapidly growing field. One especially notable development is the increasing integration of feminist, gender, and postcolonial studies into the body of STS knowledge. The book covers methods and participatory practices in STS research; mechanisms by which knowledge, people, and societies are coproduced; the design, construction, and use of material devices and infrastructures; the organization and governance of science; and STS and societal challenges including aging, agriculture, security, disasters, environmental justice, and climate change. -- Provided by publisher. |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 1190 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780262035682 0262035685 |
| Index Number: | Q158 |
| CLC: | G301-62 |
| Call Number: | G301-62/H236/4th ed. |
| Contents: |
Introduction / Doing, exploring, and reflecting on methods / STS as method / Rethinking documents / Intellectual and practical contributions of scientometrics to STS / Ethnomethodology, video analysis, and STS / Art, design, and performance / Engaging, designing, and making digital systems / Experiments in participation / Making and doing : engagement and reflexive learning in STS / Making knowledge, people, and societies / Science and democracy / STS and social movements : pasts and futures / Structural inequality and the politics of science and technology / Race and science in the twenty-first century / Sex, gender, and sexuality in biomedicine / Feminism, postcolonialism, technoscience / Conceptualizing imaginaries of science, technology, and society / Performing and governing the future in science and technology / Sociotechnological (Re- )configurations / Reconceptualizing users through enriching ethnography / How infrastructures matter / STS in the city / The sociotechnical architecture of information networks / Machineries of finance : technologies and sciences of markets / A critical theory of technology / STS for development / Organizing and governing science / The social and epistemic organization of scientific work / Interactional expertise / Surveillance and regulation of laboratory practices / Ethics as governance in genomics and beyond / Responsible research and innovation / Reframing science communication / Engaging with societal challenges / Aging : the sociomaterial constitution of later life / Kelly Joyce, Alexander Peine, Louis Neven, and Florian Kohlbacher -- Agricultural systems : co-producing knowledge and food / Knowledge and security / Researching disaster from an STS perspective / Environmental justice : knowledge, technology, and expertise / The making of global environmental science and politics / |