C Addison
Biographic Data
| ID | 45353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Addison |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Addison |
| SIGNATURE | ADDISON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4371-9341 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What Can an STS Journal Do?
On Peer Review and Exchanges Unseen
On Peer Review and Exchanges Unseen: Thank You to Our Reviewers 2023 and 2024
Current Canons and Canonical Currents
Current Canons and Canonical Currents
Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Thank you to our reviewers for 2021 and 2022
Latour and After, or What Comes After Latour
What Is an STS Contribution Now
Borders and Borderlands
This special issue takes as its primary theoretical touchstone cultural, queer, and feminist theorist Gloria Anzalda's La Frontera (2007), a text that interrogated Anzalda's own 'mestiza consciousness' to theorise the multiplying and hybridising potential of the US-Mexico borderlands and the various forms of living that emerged within. Though her writing was always critically and politically engaged, resistance, for Anzalda, was not enough, too m…
Elder Agency
At higher risk of both contracting COVID-19, and suffering ill effects from it, older people have figured prominently in accounts of the pandemic. In Aotearoa, government messaging enjoined the population to protect older people, who became the implicit subjects of the widely shared appeal to ‘stay home, save lives’. Drawing on interviews with 35 people aged 62 and older, we explore how older New Zealanders imagined their own risk, resilience, an…
A Meeting Point for STS Interventions and Conversations
Crowdfunding Conservation Science
Who gets to practice and participate in science? Research teams in Puerto Rico and New Zealand have each sequenced the genomes of parrot populations native to these locales: the iguaca and kākāpō, respectively. In both cases, crowdfunding and social media were instrumental in garnering public interest and funding. These forms of Internet-mediated participation impacted how conservation science was practiced in these cases and shaped emergent soci…
An ethics of enchantment
Science and medicine have been cast as disenchanted arenas of modernity, even as scholars have illustrated the many enchantments of everyday life. Taking these conversations into the context of experimental paediatric medicine, I explore the dis/enchantments produced through the research ethics systems that govern interactions between medical practitioners and patients' families. Research ethics enact forms of disenchantment, aiming to produce th…
Post-cure
The curative imaginary is a powerful driver of hope and investment in medicine, often displacing attention and resources given to other illness-related fields of practice. Whereas cure implies an end to the sick role and the possibility of an absolute state of health, in practice those fields that are touted as having high curative potential grapple with the ongoing nature and incompleteness of post-cure care. By capturing the public imagination …
Persuasive bodies
Biosocial Leanings and Primary Preoccupations
Building for Biology
In this article, we examine the construction of the infrastructure for a Phase II gene therapy trial for Cystic Fibrosis (CF). Tracing the development of the material technologies and physical spaces used in the trial, we show how the trial infrastructure took form at the uncertain intersection of scientific norms, built environments, regulatory negotiations, patienthood, and the biologies of both disease and therapy. We define infrastructures as…
Spliced
Bench, bedside, boardroom
This article presents ethnographic material from a London-based group of gene therapists who received the opportunity to trial a device that, its makers claimed, would expedite and improve their cell work. The Vanguard cell processor elicits both enthusiasm and ambivalence from group members, which I seek to understand by examining the group’s current manner of working alongside the device and its purported virtues. I show that cell processing cu…
"My Whole Life is Ethics!" Ordinary Ethics and Gene Therapy Clinical Trials
What and where is ethics in gene therapy? Historical debates have identified a set of ethical issues with the field, and current regulatory systems presume a discrete ethics that can be achieved or protected. Resisting attempts at demarcation or resolution, we use the notions of "ordinary" or "everyday" ethics to develop a better understanding of the complexities of experimental gene therapy for patients, families, and practitioners and create ri…
Biomedicine in an unstable place
What Is an STS Contribution Now
An ethics of enchantment
Science and medicine have been cast as disenchanted arenas of modernity, even as scholars have illustrated the many enchantments of everyday life. Taking these conversations into the context of experimental paediatric medicine, I explore the dis/enchantments produced through the research ethics systems that govern interactions between medical practitioners and patients' families. Research ethics enact forms of disenchantment, aiming to produce th…
Persuasive bodies
Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Latour and After, or What Comes After Latour
Elder Agency
At higher risk of both contracting COVID-19, and suffering ill effects from it, older people have figured prominently in accounts of the pandemic. In Aotearoa, government messaging enjoined the population to protect older people, who became the implicit subjects of the widely shared appeal to ‘stay home, save lives’. Drawing on interviews with 35 people aged 62 and older, we explore how older New Zealanders imagined their own risk, resilience, an…
Crowdfunding Conservation Science
Who gets to practice and participate in science? Research teams in Puerto Rico and New Zealand have each sequenced the genomes of parrot populations native to these locales: the iguaca and kākāpō, respectively. In both cases, crowdfunding and social media were instrumental in garnering public interest and funding. These forms of Internet-mediated participation impacted how conservation science was practiced in these cases and shaped emergent soci…
Post-cure
The curative imaginary is a powerful driver of hope and investment in medicine, often displacing attention and resources given to other illness-related fields of practice. Whereas cure implies an end to the sick role and the possibility of an absolute state of health, in practice those fields that are touted as having high curative potential grapple with the ongoing nature and incompleteness of post-cure care. By capturing the public imagination …
Biosocial Leanings and Primary Preoccupations
"My Whole Life is Ethics!" Ordinary Ethics and Gene Therapy Clinical Trials
What and where is ethics in gene therapy? Historical debates have identified a set of ethical issues with the field, and current regulatory systems presume a discrete ethics that can be achieved or protected. Resisting attempts at demarcation or resolution, we use the notions of "ordinary" or "everyday" ethics to develop a better understanding of the complexities of experimental gene therapy for patients, families, and practitioners and create ri…
Biomedicine in an unstable place
Building for Biology
In this article, we examine the construction of the infrastructure for a Phase II gene therapy trial for Cystic Fibrosis (CF). Tracing the development of the material technologies and physical spaces used in the trial, we show how the trial infrastructure took form at the uncertain intersection of scientific norms, built environments, regulatory negotiations, patienthood, and the biologies of both disease and therapy. We define infrastructures as…
Spliced
Bench, bedside, boardroom
This article presents ethnographic material from a London-based group of gene therapists who received the opportunity to trial a device that, its makers claimed, would expedite and improve their cell work. The Vanguard cell processor elicits both enthusiasm and ambivalence from group members, which I seek to understand by examining the group’s current manner of working alongside the device and its purported virtues. I show that cell processing cu…
"My Whole Life is Ethics!" Ordinary Ethics and Gene Therapy Clinical Trials
What and where is ethics in gene therapy? Historical debates have identified a set of ethical issues with the field, and current regulatory systems presume a discrete ethics that can be achieved or protected. Resisting attempts at demarcation or resolution, we use the notions of "ordinary" or "everyday" ethics to develop a better understanding of the complexities of experimental gene therapy for patients, families, and practitioners and create ri…
Biosocial Leanings and Primary Preoccupations
Persuasive bodies
Post-cure
The curative imaginary is a powerful driver of hope and investment in medicine, often displacing attention and resources given to other illness-related fields of practice. Whereas cure implies an end to the sick role and the possibility of an absolute state of health, in practice those fields that are touted as having high curative potential grapple with the ongoing nature and incompleteness of post-cure care. By capturing the public imagination …
Borders and Borderlands
This special issue takes as its primary theoretical touchstone cultural, queer, and feminist theorist Gloria Anzalda's La Frontera (2007), a text that interrogated Anzalda's own 'mestiza consciousness' to theorise the multiplying and hybridising potential of the US-Mexico borderlands and the various forms of living that emerged within. Though her writing was always critically and politically engaged, resistance, for Anzalda, was not enough, too m…
Elder Agency
At higher risk of both contracting COVID-19, and suffering ill effects from it, older people have figured prominently in accounts of the pandemic. In Aotearoa, government messaging enjoined the population to protect older people, who became the implicit subjects of the widely shared appeal to ‘stay home, save lives’. Drawing on interviews with 35 people aged 62 and older, we explore how older New Zealanders imagined their own risk, resilience, an…
A Meeting Point for STS Interventions and Conversations
Crowdfunding Conservation Science
Who gets to practice and participate in science? Research teams in Puerto Rico and New Zealand have each sequenced the genomes of parrot populations native to these locales: the iguaca and kākāpō, respectively. In both cases, crowdfunding and social media were instrumental in garnering public interest and funding. These forms of Internet-mediated participation impacted how conservation science was practiced in these cases and shaped emergent soci…
An ethics of enchantment
Science and medicine have been cast as disenchanted arenas of modernity, even as scholars have illustrated the many enchantments of everyday life. Taking these conversations into the context of experimental paediatric medicine, I explore the dis/enchantments produced through the research ethics systems that govern interactions between medical practitioners and patients' families. Research ethics enact forms of disenchantment, aiming to produce th…
Thank you to our reviewers for 2021 and 2022
Latour and After, or What Comes After Latour
What Is an STS Contribution Now
Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Science and Technology Studies (STS)
On Peer Review and Exchanges Unseen
On Peer Review and Exchanges Unseen: Thank You to Our Reviewers 2023 and 2024
Current Canons and Canonical Currents
Current Canons and Canonical Currents
What Can an STS Journal Do?
Political science (13 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Biology (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Engineering ethics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (4 works)