L Garforth
Biographic Data
| ID | 13187 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Garforth |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Garforth |
| SIGNATURE | GARFORTH L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0240-9558 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Climate and failure: For a weak utopianism
Attempts to imagine a better future from within the climate emergency must work in and through failure: failing eco-social systems, failed narratives, failures of political will, failures to change consumerist lifestyles. Utopia is intimately related to failure. It is a response to something wrong or missing. As a mode of critique and creation it is definitionally impossible to realise. But the climate crisis brings distinctive dimensions, disrup…
Why We (still) Need Utopian Thinking Now
Undisciplining II session looking at why rehabilitating utopia within sociology requires that we understand utopia not as a plan, but as a method of thinking both about present and possible future societies
Reimagining climate futures: Reading Annihilation
In this paper we explore how reading speculative fiction (SF) can be understood as a generative way to participate in a wider reckoning with the idea, and increasingly the experience, of climate crisis. Focusing on Jeff VanderMeer’s 2014 novel Annihilation as an example of New Weird fiction, we examine how the uncanny atmospheres brought to life by the text, and the affective responses of some of its readers, create new ways of imagining climate …
The End of the End of the Earth
Environmental Futures, Now and Then: Crisis, Systems Modeling, and Speculative Fiction
Postwar environmental concern has been powerfully shaped by projections of ecological catastrophe. Indeed, it can be said that the global environment as an object of social and political concern came into existence in part through narratives of future crisis. This article explores two successive framings of environmental crisis and the kinds of knowledges that made them up. It examines the announcement of ecological limits to economic growth in t…
Affective Practices, Care and Bioscience: A Study of Two Laboratories
Scientific knowledge-making is not just a matter of experiments, modelling and fieldwork. It also involves affective, embodied and material practices ( Wetherell, 2012 ) which can be understood together as 'matters of care' ( Puig de la Bellacasa, 2011 ). In this paper we explore how affect spans and connects material, subjective and organizational practices, focusing in particular on the patterns of care we encountered in an observational study …
Latour, Bruno (1947–)
In/Visibilities of Research: Seeing and Knowing in STS
In science studies the laboratory has been positioned as a privileged place for understanding scientific practice. Laboratory studies foregrounded local spaces of knowledge production in the natural sciences, and in doing so made the laboratory key to social science epistemologies. This article explores how laboratory studies and observational methods have been tied up together in the science and technology studies (STS) project of making scienti…
Science Policy and STS from Other Epistemic Places
Recently there have been pleas for STS to make a difference in how science policies are constructed and enacted. Much less remarked upon is the possibility that there may be troubling alignments between science studies and research policies in the form of shared conceptual, epistemological and methodological assumptions. Both have come to emphasise material outputs and visible activity, obscuring other processes, relationships and orderings invol…
Interdisciplinarity and the social sciences: Capital, Institutions and Autonomy1
Recent discussions about disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity in the social sciences have tended to map and critique methods, theories and approaches to knowledge production, but spend less time exploring the ways in which institutional constraints and personal trajectories produce different kinds of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity. In this paper we present findings on interdisciplinarity from UK research undertaken as part of an EC proj…
Let's Get Organised: Practicing and Valuing Scientific Work inside and outside the Laboratory
Over the past thirty years there has been a significant turn towards practice and away from institutions in sociological frameworks for understanding science. This new emphasis on studying 'science in action' ( LATOUR 1987 ) and 'epistemic cultures' ( KNORR CETINA 1999 ) has not been shared by academic and policy literatures on the problem of women and science, which have focused on the marginalisation and under-representation of women in science…
Introduction: Utopia and the “Problem” of Intention
No Intentions? Utopian Theory After the Future
This article examines the question of utopia and un/intention in relation to recent utopian theory and the changing socio‐historical conditions of utopianism. The notion of intentionality is rarely explicitly considered in utopian theory; however, it offers to shed new light on debates about the concept, form and function of utopia in late modernity. My principal argument is that intention has become increasingly irrelevant to theories of utopia.…
Women and Science: What's the Problem
In recent years the issue of gender and SET (science, engineering, and technology) careers has become prominent in policies and debates in the UK. This paper explores the ways in which equalities solutions pertaining to women and science are locked into a narrow stock of taken-for-granted assumptions about the nature of the problem. Drawing on Foucauldian models of the productive nature of discourse, we examine the proliferation of reports and in…
Green Utopias: Beyond Apocalypse, Progress, and Pastoral
Research Article| December 01 2005 Green Utopias: Beyond Apocalypse, Progress, and Pastoral Lisa Garforth Lisa Garforth Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2005) 16 (3): 393–427. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718762 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lisa Garforth; Green Utopias: Beyond Apocalypse, Progress, and Pastoral. Utopian Studies 1 December 2005; 16 (3): 393–427. do…
Interdisciplinarity and the social sciences: Capital, Institutions and Autonomy1
Recent discussions about disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity in the social sciences have tended to map and critique methods, theories and approaches to knowledge production, but spend less time exploring the ways in which institutional constraints and personal trajectories produce different kinds of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity. In this paper we present findings on interdisciplinarity from UK research undertaken as part of an EC proj…
Affective Practices, Care and Bioscience: A Study of Two Laboratories
Scientific knowledge-making is not just a matter of experiments, modelling and fieldwork. It also involves affective, embodied and material practices ( Wetherell, 2012 ) which can be understood together as 'matters of care' ( Puig de la Bellacasa, 2011 ). In this paper we explore how affect spans and connects material, subjective and organizational practices, focusing in particular on the patterns of care we encountered in an observational study …
Reimagining climate futures: Reading Annihilation
In this paper we explore how reading speculative fiction (SF) can be understood as a generative way to participate in a wider reckoning with the idea, and increasingly the experience, of climate crisis. Focusing on Jeff VanderMeer’s 2014 novel Annihilation as an example of New Weird fiction, we examine how the uncanny atmospheres brought to life by the text, and the affective responses of some of its readers, create new ways of imagining climate …
In/Visibilities of Research: Seeing and Knowing in STS
In science studies the laboratory has been positioned as a privileged place for understanding scientific practice. Laboratory studies foregrounded local spaces of knowledge production in the natural sciences, and in doing so made the laboratory key to social science epistemologies. This article explores how laboratory studies and observational methods have been tied up together in the science and technology studies (STS) project of making scienti…
Green Utopias: Beyond Apocalypse, Progress, and Pastoral
Research Article| December 01 2005 Green Utopias: Beyond Apocalypse, Progress, and Pastoral Lisa Garforth Lisa Garforth Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2005) 16 (3): 393–427. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718762 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lisa Garforth; Green Utopias: Beyond Apocalypse, Progress, and Pastoral. Utopian Studies 1 December 2005; 16 (3): 393–427. do…
Women and Science: What's the Problem
In recent years the issue of gender and SET (science, engineering, and technology) careers has become prominent in policies and debates in the UK. This paper explores the ways in which equalities solutions pertaining to women and science are locked into a narrow stock of taken-for-granted assumptions about the nature of the problem. Drawing on Foucauldian models of the productive nature of discourse, we examine the proliferation of reports and in…
Environmental Futures, Now and Then: Crisis, Systems Modeling, and Speculative Fiction
Postwar environmental concern has been powerfully shaped by projections of ecological catastrophe. Indeed, it can be said that the global environment as an object of social and political concern came into existence in part through narratives of future crisis. This article explores two successive framings of environmental crisis and the kinds of knowledges that made them up. It examines the announcement of ecological limits to economic growth in t…
Let's Get Organised: Practicing and Valuing Scientific Work inside and outside the Laboratory
Over the past thirty years there has been a significant turn towards practice and away from institutions in sociological frameworks for understanding science. This new emphasis on studying 'science in action' ( LATOUR 1987 ) and 'epistemic cultures' ( KNORR CETINA 1999 ) has not been shared by academic and policy literatures on the problem of women and science, which have focused on the marginalisation and under-representation of women in science…
Climate and failure: For a weak utopianism
Attempts to imagine a better future from within the climate emergency must work in and through failure: failing eco-social systems, failed narratives, failures of political will, failures to change consumerist lifestyles. Utopia is intimately related to failure. It is a response to something wrong or missing. As a mode of critique and creation it is definitionally impossible to realise. But the climate crisis brings distinctive dimensions, disrup…
Science Policy and STS from Other Epistemic Places
Recently there have been pleas for STS to make a difference in how science policies are constructed and enacted. Much less remarked upon is the possibility that there may be troubling alignments between science studies and research policies in the form of shared conceptual, epistemological and methodological assumptions. Both have come to emphasise material outputs and visible activity, obscuring other processes, relationships and orderings invol…
Green Utopias: Beyond Apocalypse, Progress, and Pastoral
Research Article| December 01 2005 Green Utopias: Beyond Apocalypse, Progress, and Pastoral Lisa Garforth Lisa Garforth Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2005) 16 (3): 393–427. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718762 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lisa Garforth; Green Utopias: Beyond Apocalypse, Progress, and Pastoral. Utopian Studies 1 December 2005; 16 (3): 393–427. do…
Introduction: Utopia and the “Problem” of Intention
No Intentions? Utopian Theory After the Future
This article examines the question of utopia and un/intention in relation to recent utopian theory and the changing socio‐historical conditions of utopianism. The notion of intentionality is rarely explicitly considered in utopian theory; however, it offers to shed new light on debates about the concept, form and function of utopia in late modernity. My principal argument is that intention has become increasingly irrelevant to theories of utopia.…
Women and Science: What's the Problem
In recent years the issue of gender and SET (science, engineering, and technology) careers has become prominent in policies and debates in the UK. This paper explores the ways in which equalities solutions pertaining to women and science are locked into a narrow stock of taken-for-granted assumptions about the nature of the problem. Drawing on Foucauldian models of the productive nature of discourse, we examine the proliferation of reports and in…
Let's Get Organised: Practicing and Valuing Scientific Work inside and outside the Laboratory
Over the past thirty years there has been a significant turn towards practice and away from institutions in sociological frameworks for understanding science. This new emphasis on studying 'science in action' ( LATOUR 1987 ) and 'epistemic cultures' ( KNORR CETINA 1999 ) has not been shared by academic and policy literatures on the problem of women and science, which have focused on the marginalisation and under-representation of women in science…
Interdisciplinarity and the social sciences: Capital, Institutions and Autonomy1
Recent discussions about disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity in the social sciences have tended to map and critique methods, theories and approaches to knowledge production, but spend less time exploring the ways in which institutional constraints and personal trajectories produce different kinds of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity. In this paper we present findings on interdisciplinarity from UK research undertaken as part of an EC proj…
In/Visibilities of Research: Seeing and Knowing in STS
In science studies the laboratory has been positioned as a privileged place for understanding scientific practice. Laboratory studies foregrounded local spaces of knowledge production in the natural sciences, and in doing so made the laboratory key to social science epistemologies. This article explores how laboratory studies and observational methods have been tied up together in the science and technology studies (STS) project of making scienti…
Science Policy and STS from Other Epistemic Places
Recently there have been pleas for STS to make a difference in how science policies are constructed and enacted. Much less remarked upon is the possibility that there may be troubling alignments between science studies and research policies in the form of shared conceptual, epistemological and methodological assumptions. Both have come to emphasise material outputs and visible activity, obscuring other processes, relationships and orderings invol…
Latour, Bruno (1947–)
Affective Practices, Care and Bioscience: A Study of Two Laboratories
Scientific knowledge-making is not just a matter of experiments, modelling and fieldwork. It also involves affective, embodied and material practices ( Wetherell, 2012 ) which can be understood together as 'matters of care' ( Puig de la Bellacasa, 2011 ). In this paper we explore how affect spans and connects material, subjective and organizational practices, focusing in particular on the patterns of care we encountered in an observational study …
Environmental Futures, Now and Then: Crisis, Systems Modeling, and Speculative Fiction
Postwar environmental concern has been powerfully shaped by projections of ecological catastrophe. Indeed, it can be said that the global environment as an object of social and political concern came into existence in part through narratives of future crisis. This article explores two successive framings of environmental crisis and the kinds of knowledges that made them up. It examines the announcement of ecological limits to economic growth in t…
The End of the End of the Earth
Reimagining climate futures: Reading Annihilation
In this paper we explore how reading speculative fiction (SF) can be understood as a generative way to participate in a wider reckoning with the idea, and increasingly the experience, of climate crisis. Focusing on Jeff VanderMeer’s 2014 novel Annihilation as an example of New Weird fiction, we examine how the uncanny atmospheres brought to life by the text, and the affective responses of some of its readers, create new ways of imagining climate …
Why We (still) Need Utopian Thinking Now
Undisciplining II session looking at why rehabilitating utopia within sociology requires that we understand utopia not as a plan, but as a method of thinking both about present and possible future societies
Climate and failure: For a weak utopianism
Attempts to imagine a better future from within the climate emergency must work in and through failure: failing eco-social systems, failed narratives, failures of political will, failures to change consumerist lifestyles. Utopia is intimately related to failure. It is a response to something wrong or missing. As a mode of critique and creation it is definitionally impossible to realise. But the climate crisis brings distinctive dimensions, disrup…
Epistemology (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (5 works) · History (4 works) · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration (4 works)