Ecologies of Knowledge
Work and Politics in Science and Technology
Format:Paperback
Publisher:State University of New York Press
Published:20th Jul '95
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This collection of articles provides a comprehensive overview of personal and public issues related to social change and how they shape scientific and technical knowledge.
Ecologies of Knowledge provides a comprehensive overview of issues relating to work, politics, and the latest perspectives on the role of materials, feminism, "nonhumans," and work practices as shaping scientific and technical knowledge. In addition to theoretical contributions, the authors cover biotechnology, computing, representations and space, aerospace engineering, and a variety of ethical perspectives and controversies in these domains.
"This collection illustrates the robustness of theoretical concerns in the field in their applicability to the diverse subject matter of science studies, well represented here in the inclusion of studies in biological and physical sciences along with technology. Assembled as a set within the context of Star's introductory comments, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
"The authors are concerned with the inter-relatedness of the techniques of techno-science and human life and culture, not simply with the impact of science and technology on society. They elucidate HOW the everyday practices of work and its technical aspects, including in varying degrees: bureaucracy, funding organizations, materials supply, particular movements and bandwagons, and politics, including the politics of representation, collectively construct scientific theories and technological artifacts and their applications."—Henderson, Texas A&M University
ISBN: 9780791425664
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 517g
434 pages