In the past twenty years, the field of science and technology studies (S&TS) has made considerable progress toward illuminating the relationship between scientific knowledge and political power. These insights have not yet been synthesized or presented in a form that systematically highlights the connections between S&TS and other social sciences. This timely collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field attempts to fill that gap. The book develops the theme of 'co-production', showing how scientific knowledge both embeds and is embedded in social identities, institutions, representations and discourses. Accordingly, the authors argue, ways of knowing the world are inseparably linked to the ways in which people seek to organize and control it. Through studies of emerging knowledges, research practices and political institutions, the authors demonstrate that the idiom of co-production importantly extends the vocabulary of the traditional social sciences, offering fresh analytic perspectives on the nexus of science, power and culture.
Edited by:
Sheila Jasanoff
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 589g
ISBN: 9780415333610
ISBN 10: 041533361X
Series: International Library of Sociology
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 05 February 2004
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements 1. The Idiom of Co-production 2. Ordering Knowledge, Ordering Society 3. Climate Science and the Making of a Global Political Order 4. Co-producing CITES and the African Elephant 5. Knowledge and Political Order in the European Environment Agency 6. Plants, Power and Development: Founding the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, 1880-1914 7. Mapping Systems and Moral Order: Constituting Property in Genome Laboratories 8. Patients and Scientists in French Muscular Dystrophy Research 9. Circumscribing Expertise: Membership Categories in Courtroom Testimony 10. The Science of Merit and the Merit of Science: Mental Order and Social Order in Early Twentieth-Century France and America 11. Mysteries of State, Mysteries of Nature: Authority, Knowledge and Expertise in the Seventeenth Century 12. Reconstructing Sociotechnical Order: Vannevar Bush and US Science Policy 13. Science and the Political Imagination in Contemporary Democracies 14. Afterword. References. Index
Reviews for States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and the Social Order
'A must read for students of [science and technology studies] ... the book should also be read by anyone studying environmental politics ... and it should be of interst for wider audiences in political studies, culture, geography and sociology.' - Tim Forsyth, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics, UK
