K Lancaster
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5234 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | K Lancaster |
| NOMBRES | K |
| APELLIDO | Lancaster |
| FIRMA | LANCASTER K |
| AFILIACIONES | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2411-7970 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 90 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 272 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 90 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
What Can an STS Journal Do?
Arts of noticing unloved others
A growing body of scholarly work acknowledges the importance of attending to the entanglements of human and more-than-human lives, including the importance of affect for how we come to understand other organisms. However, to date, little work has been done on the affective aspects of how more-than-human beings come to be understood in policy. Environmental humanities approaches including expert engagement with affective storytelling, attention to…
Presence, absence, and contingent engagement
BACKGROUND: In the 'endgame' of hepatitis C elimination, mobile and other decentralised care models instrumentalise point-of-care testing and direct-acting antivirals to innovate care pathways for underserved populations. While implementation science evidences their 'effectiveness', less is known about how these interventions work in practice and how their effects are produced in specific settings. APPROACH: This ethnographic case study traced a …
Making ‘Safety’ for Children and Young People in Drug Policy
Across youth and drug policies, ‘safety’ is invoked as a self-evident good, yet its meaning and effects are rarely interrogated. Using Bacchi’s What’s the Problem Represented to Be? approach, we critically analyse an Australian policy document — the NSW Strategic Plan for Children and Young People 2016–2019 — and examine how ‘safety’, ‘children and young people’, and ‘drugs’ are co-constituted, with effects on how they are governed through drug p…
Evidencing work
HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), the use of antiretroviral drugs to prevent HIV infection, was initially implemented in Australia as a daily regimen, transforming HIV prevention. However, the process of implementation, and key shifts in the delivery of PrEP, such as the introduction of on-demand (non-daily) dosing, are not well understood. This study aimed to understand how key stakeholders put PrEP into practice, and the 'evidencing work' th…
The limits of promoting pleasure
HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is said to have transformed pleasure and sexual practices in myriad ways. This article draws on interviews with PrEP users in Australia who had paused, stopped, or switched PrEP use in order to explore the varied affects and experiences of PrEP in relation to different dosing strategies. Drawing on the concept of ‘desiring-assemblages’, we considered ‘what can a body with PrEP do?’. Our analysis affirms PrEP as…
Epistemic preparedness
Preparedness strategies for emergent infectious diseases have focused on microbial surveillance, medical stockpiling and healthcare infrastructure resilience. But what does it mean to be epistemically or cognitively prepared for the next disease outbreak? Taking stock of lessons for data practices and statistical modelling in the wake of COVID-19, we propose a reconceptualising of preparedness in global health, focusing on ecological and sociolog…
Making long‐acting treatment work
Association of fentanyl test strip results and change in drug use behaviors
These findings suggest that FTS assist PWUD to immediately reduce their risks by changing drug use behaviors, including reducing the amount of drug used
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Regulating the Plant Versus Regulating the Drug
The cultivation of cannabis has been shaped by underpinning social, political, and economic dynamics over thousands of years. Recently, a new wave of regulatory reform has opened up legal and decriminalized ways of growing, obtaining, and using cannabis plants and products. Yet in some locations, these reforms continue to be informed by conceptualizations of cannabis as “drug” invoking links to criminality. The dominant figuring of cannabis as “d…
Who Leads and Who Follows? The Pathways to Joint Attention During Free-Flowing Interactions Change Over Developmental Time
Joint attention (JA) has been found to correlate with many developmental outcomes. However, little is known about how naturalistic JA is established and develops during early infancy. In this study, free-flowing tabletop toy play between infants at 5 and 15 months and their mothers (N = 48 dyads; 65% white) was observed to (1) examine changes in JA, (2) investigate whether infants become better leaders or followers of JA, and (3) explore the role…
Current Canons and Canonical Currents
Current Canons and Canonical Currents
Object-oriented interviews in qualitative longitudinal research
This paper reflects on the use of objects in qualitative interview methods. We consider the use of objects in 'single' research events and in longitudinal designs. This leads us to consider how using objects in interviews situates in relation to time. Emphasizing the materiality of objects as well as how objects help to materialize events, experiences, and accounts, we explore what objects do and how we can practically work with objects, especial…
In search of a ‘good number’
We explore the contentious life of a metric used to assess a country’s progress in relation to global disease elimination targets. Our topic is hepatitis C elimination, and our context is Australia. A fundamental metric in the calculation of progress toward hepatitis C elimination targets, as set by the WHO, is the population prevalence of people living with hepatitis C. In Australia, this modelled estimate has generated some controversy, largely…
The ‘missing’ in the ‘endgame’ of hepatitis C elimination
Mpox Illness Narratives
In May 2022, a global outbreak of mpox (formerly monkeypox virus) affected thousands of mainly gay and bisexual men. Mpox is usually a time-limited illness that can involve fever, pain, and skin lesions, but may require hospitalisation. There is scant research into the firsthand experiences of people affected by mpox, including experiences of symptoms, healthcare, and recovery. This study considers the different illness narratives of people who e…
Tinkering with care
We examine how extended-release buprenorphine depot (BUP-XR) is put to use and made to work in implementation practices, attending to how care practices are challenged and adapted as a long-acting technology is introduced into service in opioid agonist treatment (OAT) in Australia. Our approach is informed by ideas in science and technology studies (STS) emphasising the irreducible entanglement of care practices and technology, and in particular …
Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Exhausting care
We explore care as a site of multiplicity and tension. Working with the qualitative interview accounts of nineteen health care workers in Colombia, we trace a narrative of 'exhausting care' in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Accounts relate exhausting care to working without break in response to extraordinary demand, heightened contagion concern, the pressures of caring in the face of anticipated death, and efforts to carry on caring in …
Situating 'best practice'
The relationship between ‘best practice’ as a set of evidence-informed principles and its actualization in situations of care has been the subject of significant critique across clinical and sociological health research. Precisely how ‘best practice’ gets done—in practice—is often not investigated in itself. Drawing from qualitative interviews with thirty-three healthcare workers involved in the care, management, and research of Covid-19 in a hos…
Undoing elimination
In the middle of 2020, with its borders tightly closed to the rest of the world, Australia almost achieved the local elimination of COVID-19 and subsequently maintained 'COVID-zero' in most parts of the country for the following year. Australia has since faced the relatively unique challenge of deliberately 'undoing' these achievements by progressively easing restrictions and reopening. Exploring the role of mathematical modelling in navigating a…
Understanding how PrEP is made successful
After a decade of oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), the next generation of PrEP is being anticipated, including long-acting pills, injections, and implants. The unevenness of international PrEP implementation is increasingly recognised, with successful rollout in some settings and failure in others. There is a need to better understand conditions of PrEP implementation, and its localised (and sometimes unanticipated) effects. Implementati…
Problematising the emergence of outbreak science in the governance of global health
There is growing investment in the development of new methods, networks, and infrastructures of knowledge coordination to prepare for disease threats to come. ‘Outbreak science’ is an emerging field that proposes to improve epidemic preparedness and precautionary response. But what are the effects of framing and governing ‘outbreaks’ in this anticipatory mode? What ways of knowing and doing preparedness and response does outbreak science open up …
Early warnings and slow deaths
In this paper, we offer a sociological analysis of early warning and outbreak in the field of drug policy, focusing on opioid overdose. We trace how 'outbreak' is enacted as a rupturing event which enables rapid reflex responses of precautionary control, based largely on short-term and proximal early warning indicators. We make the case for an alternative view of early warning and outbreak. We argue that practices of detection and projection that…
Confidentiality, anonymity and power relations in elite interviewing
While the methods used to study ‘elites’ are of particular relevance in policy research, to date there has been little examination of the particular challenges associated with ‘elite’ interviewing in this field. More specifically, the issues associated with interviewing ‘elites’ while conducting qualitative research in a contested policy domain, especially if policy processes are being studied as they play out in real time, remain underexplored. …
Evidence-making interventions in health
Mathematical models as public troubles in Covid-19 infection control
Mathematical models are key actors in policy and public responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The projections from COVID-19 models travel beyond science into policy decisions and social life. Treating models as 'boundary objects', and focusing on media and public communications, we 'follow the numbers' to trace the social life of key projections from prominent mathematical models of COVID-19. Public deliberations and controversies about models and …
The productive techniques and constitutive effects of 'evidence-based policy' and 'consumer participation' discourses in health policy processes
Performing the Evidence-Based Drug Policy Paradigm
Through the lens of performance, this paper critically examines how “evidence” and the “evidence-based policy” paradigm are constituted in drug policy processes, enacted through the telling of policy stories. I argue that policy stories do not simply describe the drug policy process, but rather frame the notion of “evidence” and “evidence-based policy” in particular ways. Drawing on two Australian case studies and interviews with policy makers, a…
Making evidence and policy in public health emergencies
Background: In public health emergencies, evidence, intervention, decisions and translation proceed simultaneously, in greatly compressed timeframes, with knowledge and advice constantly in flux. Idealised approaches to evidence-based policy and practice are ill equipped to deal with the uncertainties arising in evolving situations of need. Key points for discussion: There is much to learn from rapid assessment and outbreak science approaches. Th…
Naloxone works
For over 20 years, drug policy experts have been calling for the wider availability of naloxone, to enable lay overdose witnesses to respond to opioid overdose events. However, the 'evidence base' for peer-administered naloxone has become a key point of contention. This contention opens up critical questions about how knowledge ('evidence') is constituted and validated in drug policy processes, which voices may be heard, and how knowledge produce…
The becoming-methadone-body
In this paper, we reflect on health intervention translations as matters of their implementation practices. Our case is methadone treatment, an intervention promoted globally for treating opioid dependence and preventingHIVamong people who inject drugs. Tracing methadone's translations in high-security prisons in the Kyrgyz Republic, we notice the multiple methadones made possible, what these afford, and the onto-political effects they make. We w…
Making pandemics big
Recasting Participation in Drug Policy
Calls for “evidence-based policy” and greater community “participation” are often heard in the drug policy field. Both movements are in different ways concerned with the same questions about how “drug problems” ought to be governed and the place of “expertise” and “engagement” in democratic societies. However, these calls rely on the assumption that knowledges, publics, expertise, and issues of concern are fixed and stable, waiting to be addresse…
Devil’s Lure Took All I Had”
Crystal methamphetamine (“ice”) has been a fixture in Australian newspapers since the early 2000s. This study explores discourses at work in constructing the ice “problem” in recent Australian media, possible implications for how people who use ice are discursively positioned, and the resulting significance for drug policy. Twenty-seven articles were selected for discourse analysis, sampled from a larger study of Australian ice-related news items…
I Lost Me Visits”
Utilizing Bacchi’s poststructuralist approach, “What’s the problem represented to be?,” we critically examine how the “problem” of drug use in prison is represented within a key initiative—the Identified Drug User program (IDUP)—of prison drug policy in one Australian jurisdiction. We use two data sources for our analysis: interview transcripts of recently incarcerated young men (aged 19–24) with histories of injecting drug use and selected priso…
Mathematical Economics
Journal Article K. Lancaster. Mathematical Economics Get access Mathematical Economics. By K. Lancaster. (New York: Macmillan (London: Collier-Macmillan), 1968. Pp. xiii + 411. $10.95.) Christopher Bliss Christopher Bliss Christ's College, Cambridge. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 79, Issue 315, 1 September 1969, Pages 599–601, https://doi.org/10.2307/2230395 Published: 01 Sep…
What Is an STS Contribution Now
Dosing practices made mundane
Maintaining routines of medication dosing requires effort amidst the variabilities of everyday life. This article offers a sociomaterial analysis of how the oral HIV prevention regimen, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), is put to use and made to work, including in situations which disrupt or complicate dosing regimes. Other than a daily pill, PrEP can be taken less frequently based on anticipated sexual activity and HIV risk, including 'on-demand'…
A matter of time
This article investigates how evidence of the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines is enacted in news media via a focus on the temporality of vaccine development. We argue that time constitutes a crucial object of and mechanism for knowledge production in such media and investigate how time comes to matter in vaccine evidence-making communication practices. In science communication on vaccine development, the vaccine object (along with the pr…
Excitable models
In efforts to control disease, mathematical models and numerical targets play a key role. We take the elimination of a viral infection as a case for exploring mathematical models as 'evidence-making interventions'. Using interviews with mathematical modellers and implementation scientists, and focusing on the emergence of models of 'treatment-as-prevention' in hepatitis C control, we trace how projections detach from their calculative origins as …
Making the subjects of mental health care
Constituting 'social problems' in particular ways has a range of effects, including for how subjects are positioned within policy and discourse. Employing an approach grounded in poststructuralist and social constructionist thinking, this analysis interrogates how the subjects of mental health care were constituted and problematised in mental health policies in two distinctive contexts, unsettling the taken-for granted assumptions which underpin …
Problems, policy and politics
Drug policy is a complex and controversial policy domain and traditional models of the policy process which present policy making as a process of authoritative problem solving by governments deny the complexity of the policy process in the real-world. An alternative perspective is to engage with the idea of policy-making as an ongoing process of managing the problematic, with multiple participants and competing perspectives. Kingdon's ‘multiple s…
Object-oriented interviews in qualitative longitudinal research
This paper reflects on the use of objects in qualitative interview methods. We consider the use of objects in 'single' research events and in longitudinal designs. This leads us to consider how using objects in interviews situates in relation to time. Emphasizing the materiality of objects as well as how objects help to materialize events, experiences, and accounts, we explore what objects do and how we can practically work with objects, especial…
The fluid hospital
This paper explores the boundary-making practices enacted by the hospital. Taking a hospital in Sydney, Australia, as our case, we investigate how the hospital holds together as a care environment through the coordinating movements of many materials, spaces, bodies, technologies, and affects. Drawing on interviews with hospital healthcare workers involved in care, research, and management related to COVID-19, we examine the multiplying effects of…
Uncomfortable science
We explore messy translations of evidence in policy as a site of 'uncomfortable science'. Drawing on the work of John Law, we follow evidence as a 'fluid object' of its situation, also enacted in relation to a hinterland of practices. Working with the qualitative interview accounts of mathematical modellers and other scientists engaged in the UK COVID-19 response, we trace how models perform as evidence. Our point of departure is a moment of cont…
HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and the 'problems' of reduced condom use and sexually transmitted infections in Australia
HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has been embraced in Australia, making PrEP available with public funding to people at risk of HIV. Here, we consider the associated 'problems' of reduced condom use and sexually transmissible infections (STIs), as seen by HIV professionals. Twenty-one interviews were conducted during May-August 2017. All agreed that PrEP was a valuable addition to HIV prevention, but their views about reduced condom use and ST…
Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Science and Technology Studies (STS)
The Social, Material, and Temporal Effects of Monthly Extended-Release Buprenorphine Depot Treatment for Opioid Dependence
Aims: This study examined the social, material and temporal effects of extended-release buprenorphine depot treatment (BUP-XR), among a group of participants commencing BUP-XR in Australia, and considered the situated potentials of these new opioid agonist treatment technologies. Methods: Using a longitudinal qualitative design, 36 participants (25 men, 11 women; mean age 44 years) were interviewed, with 32 followed-up, to generate accounts of BU…
Mathematical Economics
Journal Article K. Lancaster. Mathematical Economics Get access Mathematical Economics. By K. Lancaster. (New York: Macmillan (London: Collier-Macmillan), 1968. Pp. xiii + 411. $10.95.) Christopher Bliss Christopher Bliss Christ's College, Cambridge. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 79, Issue 315, 1 September 1969, Pages 599–601, https://doi.org/10.2307/2230395 Published: 01 Sep…
Consumer Demand. A New Approach
Journal Article Lancaster (K.). Consumer Demand. A New Approach Get access Consumer Demand. A New Approach. By K. Lancaster. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1972. Pp. 177. £4.25.) J. D. Sargan J. D. Sargan London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 82, Issue 328, 1 December 1972, Pages 1416–1417, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231325 Published: 01 December 1972
Young People's Perceptions of, and Engagement with, News Media Reporting on Illicit Drug Issues
Illicit drug issues have a pervasive presence in mass media. Yet, despite 25 years of research exploring questions of bias, sensationalism and inaccuracies in news media portrayals of illicit drugs, how audiences engage with these portrayals (and their capacity to filter, interpret, deconstruct and even reconstruct media messages) has been neglected. Drawing on focus groups conducted in 2010 with 52 Australian young people aged 16–24 years, this …
How do Australian news media depict illicit drug issues? An analysis of print media reporting across and between illicit drugs, 2003–2008
News Media Consumption among Young Australians
Research suggests youth make active choices about how they use and respond to media. Yet publicly available information outlining patterns of youth media consumption and how content is perceived - especially in relation to reporting of issues of pertinence to youth - is limited. Using an online survey of 2296 Australians aged 16-24, we measured news media consumption and perceptions of reporting on illicit drugs. The study concluded that Australi…
Measuring research influence on drug policy
Illicit drugs, policing and the evidence-based policy paradigm
The mantra of evidence-based policy (EBP) suggests that endeavours to implement evidencebased policing will produce better outcomes. However there is dissonance between the rhetoric of EBP and the actuality of policing policy. This disjuncture is critically analysed using the case study of illicit drugs policing. The dissonance may be ameliorated by taking into account the policing context, and lessons from the extant evidence-based medicine, res…
Making change happen
Examining the construction and representation of drugs as a policy problem in Australia's National Drug Strategy documents 1985–2010
Social construction and the evidence-based drug policy endeavour
Problems, policy and politics
Drug policy is a complex and controversial policy domain and traditional models of the policy process which present policy making as a process of authoritative problem solving by governments deny the complexity of the policy process in the real-world. An alternative perspective is to engage with the idea of policy-making as an ongoing process of managing the problematic, with multiple participants and competing perspectives. Kingdon's ‘multiple s…
Producing the ‘problem of drugs’
Laws prohibiting peer distribution of injecting equipment in Australia
The stigmatisation of ‘ice’ and under-reporting of meth/amphetamine use in general population surveys
Confidentiality, anonymity and power relations in elite interviewing
While the methods used to study ‘elites’ are of particular relevance in policy research, to date there has been little examination of the particular challenges associated with ‘elite’ interviewing in this field. More specifically, the issues associated with interviewing ‘elites’ while conducting qualitative research in a contested policy domain, especially if policy processes are being studied as they play out in real time, remain underexplored. …
Performing the Evidence-Based Drug Policy Paradigm
Through the lens of performance, this paper critically examines how “evidence” and the “evidence-based policy” paradigm are constituted in drug policy processes, enacted through the telling of policy stories. I argue that policy stories do not simply describe the drug policy process, but rather frame the notion of “evidence” and “evidence-based policy” in particular ways. Drawing on two Australian case studies and interviews with policy makers, a…
Understanding policy persistence—The case of police drug detection dog policy in NSW, Australia
Making medicine; producing pleasure
A critical examination of the definition of ‘psychoactive effect’ in Australian drug legislation
Fourth Contemporary Drug Problems Conference
The productive techniques and constitutive effects of 'evidence-based policy' and 'consumer participation' discourses in health policy processes
Naloxone works
For over 20 years, drug policy experts have been calling for the wider availability of naloxone, to enable lay overdose witnesses to respond to opioid overdose events. However, the 'evidence base' for peer-administered naloxone has become a key point of contention. This contention opens up critical questions about how knowledge ('evidence') is constituted and validated in drug policy processes, which voices may be heard, and how knowledge produce…
Evidence-making controversies
Contested science presents a problem for ‘evidence-based’ public health intervention. Taking a perspective that treats evidence as constituted through the practices which make it, we treat controversies in public health science as events of ‘evidence-making’ intervention. We look back on a recent controversy in evidence-making regarding the curative potential of new treatments for hepatitis C. The controversy concerned the publication of a system…
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Improving drug policy
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