Mark Elam
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 253036 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mark Elam |
| NOMBRES | Mark |
| APELLIDO | Elam |
| FIRMA | ELAM M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4813-9584 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 156 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Experimenting with Ethnography
We are grateful to all the people and institutions that made this book pos sible.The In de pen dent Research Councils of Denmark (funding id 0602-02551b) supported Brit
Technological Fix or Divisible Object of Collective Concern? Histories of Conflict over the Geological Disposal of Nuclear Waste in Sweden and France
Science and technology studies (STS) has cultivated a positive vision of technological controversies. By raising new issues to address, controversies are seen as generating more thorough and exhaustive processes of technology assessment. However, the ability to view controversies in this light remains dependent upon how technology is collectively imagined and understood. If it is envisioned as a classic technological fix then broader controversy …
Socioscientific issues via controversy mapping
What are the current challenges and opportunities for bringing actor-network theory (ANT) into issues-based science education? This article discusses experiences gained from introducing an educational version of ANT deploying digital technology into an upper secondary school science class. This teaching innovation, called controversy mapping, has been pioneered in different contexts of higher education before being adapted to school education. Ex…
Tenacious assumptions of person-centred care? Exploring tensions and variations in practice
In recent decades, the ‘tenacious assumptions’ of biomedicine regarding the neutrality and universality of its knowledge claims have been significantly challenged by the growth of new collaborative and patient-focused models of Healthcare delivery. In this article, we discuss and critically reflect upon one such alternative Healthcare model developed at the University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care in Sweden. This centre uses three …
Elaboration of the Gothenburg model of person‐centred care
BACKGROUND: Person-centred care (PCC) is increasingly advocated as a new way of delivering health care, but there is little evidence that it is widely practised. The University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC) was set up in 2010 to develop and implement person-centred care in clinical practice on the basis of three routines. These routines are based on eliciting the patient's narrative to initiate a partnership; working the par…
Nicorette reborn? E-cigarettes in light of the history of nicotine replacement technology
How the Brain Disease Paradigm Remoralizes Addictive Behaviour
In recent decades, addiction has been medicalized anew through the rise of an influential ‘brain disease paradigm’. This questions the equivalence of addiction to drug dependence by re-emphasizing loss of self-control over unhealthy impulses as the disease locus. While showing continuities with the nineteenth-century vision of addictions as ‘diseases of the will’, neurobiology objectifies disease as disrupted neurochemical transmission and lastin…
Food Fight! The Swedish Low-Carb/High Fat (LCHF) Movement and the Turning of Science Popularisation Against the Scientists
Science popularisation is widely recognised as having its ‘political uses’ and as serving as a conventional means for buttressing the epistemic authority of the institutions of science in society. By separating the work of producing new knowledge from its dissemination, popularisation promotes public understanding and appreciation of science placed beyond public reach and influence. However, simply by insisting upon such a separation, so populari…
Trois interprétations du post-fordisme
Ce texte tente de démêler l’écheveau que constitue le débat sur le post-fordisme, un débat qui s’inscrit dans un questionnement plus large sur l’avenir du capitalisme et qui resurgit de manière particulièrement virulente dans les périodes de Crise et de transition. Trois perspectives d’analyse du post-fordisme sont identifiées et analysées ici, chacune rattachée à une tradition précise de l’économie politique classique et, de fait, insistant sur …
Steering through the Neighbourhood
How to govern risk through freedom? The aim of this paper is to contribute to the theoretical discussion on, and the empirical understanding of, liberal authority and its governmental rationality of risk. The analytical question is that of how to govern risk through freedom and the empirical focus is a programme of mobility management in the Swedish city of Gothenburg-New Road Habits-grouping local initiatives concerning traffic control, air qual…
Meddling in Swedish success in nuclear waste management
Actor–network theory and the notion of fluid technology are employed to account for the continuing and growing success of Swedish nuclear waste management (the so-called KBS Programme). Rather than offering a single, constant geological solution, Swedish success is based upon three forms of fluidity: the attachment of shifting meanings and significance to the geological disposal of nuclear waste; the introduction of variations in the working orde…
The Swedish KBS project
This paper addresses the long-standing association between the management of spent nuclear fuel in Sweden and the industry-led KBS (Kärnbränslesäkerhet/Nuclear Fuel Safety) research, development and demonstration project. This project was born under extraordinary circumstances during the 1970s when the future of nuclear power generation in Sweden was made conditional upon the nuclear industry's ability to publicly demonstrate the possibility of a…
Sociologin, hybriderna och den sociala verkligheten
Sociology, hybrids and social reality: the case of nuclear waste The continuing technological transformation of nature means that sociology’s traditional vision of a sharp divide between nature and society is becoming ever harder to defend. Starting from Bruno Latour’s critique of modernity, and Nikolas Rose’s explorations of political power beyond the state, this article presents a framework for analysing the expanding wealth of hybrids of natur…
When Scientists Meet Film-Makers
The new interest in staging public engagements with science, and the biosciences in particular, has been widely associated with a 'democratic turn' in the public understanding of science movement. This article seeks to bring this association under closer scrutiny by focusing on the development of public engagement with biotechnology in Sweden. It analyses the production and dramatic composition of a two-part film documentary entitled Life at Stak…
Contemporary science communication as a world of political invention
Consuming, Engaging and Confronting Science
As the distance between science and society is collapsed with the growth of contemporary knowledge societies, so a range of different approaches to the democratic governance of science superseding its Enlightenment government is emerging. In light of these different approaches, this article focuses on the figure of the scientific citizen and the variable dimensions of a new scientific citizenship. Three models of democracy - advanced consumer, de…
Living Dangerously with Bruno Latour in a Hybrid World
This article critically engages with the work of Bruno Latour and, in particular, his book We Have Never Been Modern. Looking beyond the wit and brevity of Latour's writing, the article focuses on some of the non-innocent aspects of his vision of a non-modern world. Rather than completely rejecting the 'Great Divides' between Nature and Culture, Westerners and non-Westerners, Latour is seen as only interested in erasing these major fault lines of…
When Harry Met Sandra
Sociology
Puzzling Out the Post‐Fordist Debate
Country Competitiveness
This is a book of contributed chapters, including detailed case studies, which demonstrates that competition, whether among countries or firms, is driven by advantages that cannot easily be imitated or diffused. Cheap labour can be imitated but is not desirable; capital moves easily across borders; new products are copied within a few years. What is difficult to imitate are the organizing practices of work, as applied to the factory, to the firm,…
Anti Anticonstructivism or Laying the Fears of a Langdon Winner to Rest
In recent paper, Langdon Winner (1993) characterizes new sociology of technology as an intellectual tragedy. Assuming high moral ground, he accuses everyone linked with of being, among other things, elitist, implicitly conservative, blase, and politically naive. Winner appears to be declaring war on something despicable and asking each of us to make our loyalties known: are you one of us or one of them? Although accepting that important differenc…
Markets, morals and powers of innovation
Why is the technological performance of some industrial economies far superior to that of others? This is the question which underlies this paper and with which it seeks to engage. Two key constituents of innovative capacity are identified as effective supplies of information and skill. Within conventional economic theory the standard reason given for the under-supply of these two peculiar commodities is their shared vulnerability to the problem …
Consuming, Engaging and Confronting Science
As the distance between science and society is collapsed with the growth of contemporary knowledge societies, so a range of different approaches to the democratic governance of science superseding its Enlightenment government is emerging. In light of these different approaches, this article focuses on the figure of the scientific citizen and the variable dimensions of a new scientific citizenship. Three models of democracy - advanced consumer, de…
Living Dangerously with Bruno Latour in a Hybrid World
This article critically engages with the work of Bruno Latour and, in particular, his book We Have Never Been Modern. Looking beyond the wit and brevity of Latour's writing, the article focuses on some of the non-innocent aspects of his vision of a non-modern world. Rather than completely rejecting the 'Great Divides' between Nature and Culture, Westerners and non-Westerners, Latour is seen as only interested in erasing these major fault lines of…
Food Fight! The Swedish Low-Carb/High Fat (LCHF) Movement and the Turning of Science Popularisation Against the Scientists
Science popularisation is widely recognised as having its ‘political uses’ and as serving as a conventional means for buttressing the epistemic authority of the institutions of science in society. By separating the work of producing new knowledge from its dissemination, popularisation promotes public understanding and appreciation of science placed beyond public reach and influence. However, simply by insisting upon such a separation, so populari…
The Swedish KBS project
This paper addresses the long-standing association between the management of spent nuclear fuel in Sweden and the industry-led KBS (Kärnbränslesäkerhet/Nuclear Fuel Safety) research, development and demonstration project. This project was born under extraordinary circumstances during the 1970s when the future of nuclear power generation in Sweden was made conditional upon the nuclear industry's ability to publicly demonstrate the possibility of a…
Technological Fix or Divisible Object of Collective Concern? Histories of Conflict over the Geological Disposal of Nuclear Waste in Sweden and France
Science and technology studies (STS) has cultivated a positive vision of technological controversies. By raising new issues to address, controversies are seen as generating more thorough and exhaustive processes of technology assessment. However, the ability to view controversies in this light remains dependent upon how technology is collectively imagined and understood. If it is envisioned as a classic technological fix then broader controversy …
Meddling in Swedish success in nuclear waste management
Actor–network theory and the notion of fluid technology are employed to account for the continuing and growing success of Swedish nuclear waste management (the so-called KBS Programme). Rather than offering a single, constant geological solution, Swedish success is based upon three forms of fluidity: the attachment of shifting meanings and significance to the geological disposal of nuclear waste; the introduction of variations in the working orde…
Experimenting with Ethnography
We are grateful to all the people and institutions that made this book pos sible.The In de pen dent Research Councils of Denmark (funding id 0602-02551b) supported Brit
Markets, morals and powers of innovation
Why is the technological performance of some industrial economies far superior to that of others? This is the question which underlies this paper and with which it seeks to engage. Two key constituents of innovative capacity are identified as effective supplies of information and skill. Within conventional economic theory the standard reason given for the under-supply of these two peculiar commodities is their shared vulnerability to the problem …
How the Brain Disease Paradigm Remoralizes Addictive Behaviour
In recent decades, addiction has been medicalized anew through the rise of an influential ‘brain disease paradigm’. This questions the equivalence of addiction to drug dependence by re-emphasizing loss of self-control over unhealthy impulses as the disease locus. While showing continuities with the nineteenth-century vision of addictions as ‘diseases of the will’, neurobiology objectifies disease as disrupted neurochemical transmission and lastin…
Anti Anticonstructivism or Laying the Fears of a Langdon Winner to Rest
In recent paper, Langdon Winner (1993) characterizes new sociology of technology as an intellectual tragedy. Assuming high moral ground, he accuses everyone linked with of being, among other things, elitist, implicitly conservative, blase, and politically naive. Winner appears to be declaring war on something despicable and asking each of us to make our loyalties known: are you one of us or one of them? Although accepting that important differenc…
Tenacious assumptions of person-centred care? Exploring tensions and variations in practice
In recent decades, the ‘tenacious assumptions’ of biomedicine regarding the neutrality and universality of its knowledge claims have been significantly challenged by the growth of new collaborative and patient-focused models of Healthcare delivery. In this article, we discuss and critically reflect upon one such alternative Healthcare model developed at the University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care in Sweden. This centre uses three …
Steering through the Neighbourhood
How to govern risk through freedom? The aim of this paper is to contribute to the theoretical discussion on, and the empirical understanding of, liberal authority and its governmental rationality of risk. The analytical question is that of how to govern risk through freedom and the empirical focus is a programme of mobility management in the Swedish city of Gothenburg-New Road Habits-grouping local initiatives concerning traffic control, air qual…
Sociologin, hybriderna och den sociala verkligheten
Sociology, hybrids and social reality: the case of nuclear waste The continuing technological transformation of nature means that sociology’s traditional vision of a sharp divide between nature and society is becoming ever harder to defend. Starting from Bruno Latour’s critique of modernity, and Nikolas Rose’s explorations of political power beyond the state, this article presents a framework for analysing the expanding wealth of hybrids of natur…
When Scientists Meet Film-Makers
The new interest in staging public engagements with science, and the biosciences in particular, has been widely associated with a 'democratic turn' in the public understanding of science movement. This article seeks to bring this association under closer scrutiny by focusing on the development of public engagement with biotechnology in Sweden. It analyses the production and dramatic composition of a two-part film documentary entitled Life at Stak…
Socioscientific issues via controversy mapping
What are the current challenges and opportunities for bringing actor-network theory (ANT) into issues-based science education? This article discusses experiences gained from introducing an educational version of ANT deploying digital technology into an upper secondary school science class. This teaching innovation, called controversy mapping, has been pioneered in different contexts of higher education before being adapted to school education. Ex…
Contemporary science communication as a world of political invention
Markets, morals and powers of innovation
Why is the technological performance of some industrial economies far superior to that of others? This is the question which underlies this paper and with which it seeks to engage. Two key constituents of innovative capacity are identified as effective supplies of information and skill. Within conventional economic theory the standard reason given for the under-supply of these two peculiar commodities is their shared vulnerability to the problem …
Puzzling Out the Post‐Fordist Debate
Country Competitiveness
This is a book of contributed chapters, including detailed case studies, which demonstrates that competition, whether among countries or firms, is driven by advantages that cannot easily be imitated or diffused. Cheap labour can be imitated but is not desirable; capital moves easily across borders; new products are copied within a few years. What is difficult to imitate are the organizing practices of work, as applied to the factory, to the firm,…
Anti Anticonstructivism or Laying the Fears of a Langdon Winner to Rest
In recent paper, Langdon Winner (1993) characterizes new sociology of technology as an intellectual tragedy. Assuming high moral ground, he accuses everyone linked with of being, among other things, elitist, implicitly conservative, blase, and politically naive. Winner appears to be declaring war on something despicable and asking each of us to make our loyalties known: are you one of us or one of them? Although accepting that important differenc…
When Harry Met Sandra
Sociology
Living Dangerously with Bruno Latour in a Hybrid World
This article critically engages with the work of Bruno Latour and, in particular, his book We Have Never Been Modern. Looking beyond the wit and brevity of Latour's writing, the article focuses on some of the non-innocent aspects of his vision of a non-modern world. Rather than completely rejecting the 'Great Divides' between Nature and Culture, Westerners and non-Westerners, Latour is seen as only interested in erasing these major fault lines of…
Consuming, Engaging and Confronting Science
As the distance between science and society is collapsed with the growth of contemporary knowledge societies, so a range of different approaches to the democratic governance of science superseding its Enlightenment government is emerging. In light of these different approaches, this article focuses on the figure of the scientific citizen and the variable dimensions of a new scientific citizenship. Three models of democracy - advanced consumer, de…
Contemporary science communication as a world of political invention
When Scientists Meet Film-Makers
The new interest in staging public engagements with science, and the biosciences in particular, has been widely associated with a 'democratic turn' in the public understanding of science movement. This article seeks to bring this association under closer scrutiny by focusing on the development of public engagement with biotechnology in Sweden. It analyses the production and dramatic composition of a two-part film documentary entitled Life at Stak…
The Swedish KBS project
This paper addresses the long-standing association between the management of spent nuclear fuel in Sweden and the industry-led KBS (Kärnbränslesäkerhet/Nuclear Fuel Safety) research, development and demonstration project. This project was born under extraordinary circumstances during the 1970s when the future of nuclear power generation in Sweden was made conditional upon the nuclear industry's ability to publicly demonstrate the possibility of a…
Sociologin, hybriderna och den sociala verkligheten
Sociology, hybrids and social reality: the case of nuclear waste The continuing technological transformation of nature means that sociology’s traditional vision of a sharp divide between nature and society is becoming ever harder to defend. Starting from Bruno Latour’s critique of modernity, and Nikolas Rose’s explorations of political power beyond the state, this article presents a framework for analysing the expanding wealth of hybrids of natur…
Trois interprétations du post-fordisme
Ce texte tente de démêler l’écheveau que constitue le débat sur le post-fordisme, un débat qui s’inscrit dans un questionnement plus large sur l’avenir du capitalisme et qui resurgit de manière particulièrement virulente dans les périodes de Crise et de transition. Trois perspectives d’analyse du post-fordisme sont identifiées et analysées ici, chacune rattachée à une tradition précise de l’économie politique classique et, de fait, insistant sur …
Steering through the Neighbourhood
How to govern risk through freedom? The aim of this paper is to contribute to the theoretical discussion on, and the empirical understanding of, liberal authority and its governmental rationality of risk. The analytical question is that of how to govern risk through freedom and the empirical focus is a programme of mobility management in the Swedish city of Gothenburg-New Road Habits-grouping local initiatives concerning traffic control, air qual…
Meddling in Swedish success in nuclear waste management
Actor–network theory and the notion of fluid technology are employed to account for the continuing and growing success of Swedish nuclear waste management (the so-called KBS Programme). Rather than offering a single, constant geological solution, Swedish success is based upon three forms of fluidity: the attachment of shifting meanings and significance to the geological disposal of nuclear waste; the introduction of variations in the working orde…
Food Fight! The Swedish Low-Carb/High Fat (LCHF) Movement and the Turning of Science Popularisation Against the Scientists
Science popularisation is widely recognised as having its ‘political uses’ and as serving as a conventional means for buttressing the epistemic authority of the institutions of science in society. By separating the work of producing new knowledge from its dissemination, popularisation promotes public understanding and appreciation of science placed beyond public reach and influence. However, simply by insisting upon such a separation, so populari…
How the Brain Disease Paradigm Remoralizes Addictive Behaviour
In recent decades, addiction has been medicalized anew through the rise of an influential ‘brain disease paradigm’. This questions the equivalence of addiction to drug dependence by re-emphasizing loss of self-control over unhealthy impulses as the disease locus. While showing continuities with the nineteenth-century vision of addictions as ‘diseases of the will’, neurobiology objectifies disease as disrupted neurochemical transmission and lastin…
Nicorette reborn? E-cigarettes in light of the history of nicotine replacement technology
Elaboration of the Gothenburg model of person‐centred care
BACKGROUND: Person-centred care (PCC) is increasingly advocated as a new way of delivering health care, but there is little evidence that it is widely practised. The University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC) was set up in 2010 to develop and implement person-centred care in clinical practice on the basis of three routines. These routines are based on eliciting the patient's narrative to initiate a partnership; working the par…
Tenacious assumptions of person-centred care? Exploring tensions and variations in practice
In recent decades, the ‘tenacious assumptions’ of biomedicine regarding the neutrality and universality of its knowledge claims have been significantly challenged by the growth of new collaborative and patient-focused models of Healthcare delivery. In this article, we discuss and critically reflect upon one such alternative Healthcare model developed at the University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care in Sweden. This centre uses three …
Technological Fix or Divisible Object of Collective Concern? Histories of Conflict over the Geological Disposal of Nuclear Waste in Sweden and France
Science and technology studies (STS) has cultivated a positive vision of technological controversies. By raising new issues to address, controversies are seen as generating more thorough and exhaustive processes of technology assessment. However, the ability to view controversies in this light remains dependent upon how technology is collectively imagined and understood. If it is envisioned as a classic technological fix then broader controversy …
Socioscientific issues via controversy mapping
What are the current challenges and opportunities for bringing actor-network theory (ANT) into issues-based science education? This article discusses experiences gained from introducing an educational version of ANT deploying digital technology into an upper secondary school science class. This teaching innovation, called controversy mapping, has been pioneered in different contexts of higher education before being adapted to school education. Ex…
Experimenting with Ethnography
We are grateful to all the people and institutions that made this book pos sible.The In de pen dent Research Councils of Denmark (funding id 0602-02551b) supported Brit
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