Sarah J Whatmore
Biographic Data
| ID | 232449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah J Whatmore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah J |
| FAMILY NAME | Whatmore |
| SIGNATURE | WHATMORE S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 422 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Rural Restructuring: Global Processes and Their Responses
Stakeholder engagement does not guarantee impact: A co-productionist perspective on model-based drought research
Stakeholder engagement has become a watchword for environmental scientists to assert the societal relevance of their projects to funding agencies. In water research based on computer simulation modelling, stakeholder engagement has attracted interest as a means to overcome low uptake of new tools for water management. An increasingly accepted view is that more and better stakeholder involvement in research projects will lead to increased adoption…
Community modelling: A technique for enhancing local capacity to engage with flood risk management
Virtually Expert: Modes of Environmental Computer Simulation Modeling
Argument This paper challenges three assumptions common in the literature on expertise: that expertise is linearly derived from scientific knowledge; that experts always align with the established institutional order; and that expertise is a property acquired by individuals. We criticize these ideas by juxtaposing three distinct expert practices involved with flood risk management in England. Virtual engineering is associated with commercial cons…
Learning through Computer Model Improvisations
It has been convincingly argued that computer simulation modeling differs from traditional science. If we understand simulation modeling as a new way of doing science, the manner in which scientists learn about the world through models must also be considered differently. This article examines how researchers learn about environmental processes through computer simulation modeling. Suggesting a conceptual framework anchored in a performative phil…
Earthly Powers and Affective Environments: An Ontological Politics of Flood Risk
In this article I set out to trace some of the implications of recharging the political potency of nature in more-than-human terms. This shifts attention from a biopolitical focus on the inventiveness of the life sciences and what this means in terms of the emergence of 'cyborg' political subjects to an onto-political focus on the inventiveness of knowledge controversies and what these mean for techno-political practices. Specifically, the articl…
Virtual Engineering
This paper discusses computer simulation modelling in the context of environmental risk management. Approaching computer simulation as practice, performed in networks of heterogeneous elements, we examine the modelling undertaken by engineering consultants commissioned to provide knowledge about local flood risk to the Environment Agency of England and Wales (EA), the public body responsible for flood risk management. We propose that this simulat…
Coproducing Flood Risk Knowledge: Redistributing Expertise in Critical 'Participatory Modelling
This paper suggests that computer simulation modelling can offer opportunities for redistributing expertise between science and affected publics in relation to environmental problems. However, in order for scientific modelling to contribute to the coproduction of new knowledge claims about environmental processes, scientists need to reposition themselves with respect to their modelling practices. In the paper we examine a process in which two hyd…
Flood apprentices: An Exercise in Making Things Public
Taking our lead from Stengers' experimental constructivism, this paper reports on the invention of a research apparatus – the 'competency group' (CG) – that aims to put things capable of forcing thought and attachment to work in the exercise of new knowledge polities. It draws on the work of one such group based in Pickering, a town in the catchment of Ryedale with long experience of flooding. This group involved social and natural scientists wor…
Mapping knowledge controversies: Science, Democracy and the Redistribution of Expertise
Reflecting on conversations between geography and science and technology studies (STS) over the last 15 years or so, this paper addresses their shared interest in knowledge controversies as generative political events. It explores how such events give rise to new ways of practising relations between science and democracy focusing on the case of environmental knowledge claims and technologies. This exploration interrogates three mobilizations of e…
Remaking Environments: Histories, Practices, Policies
Metabolising Risk: Food Scares and the Un/Re-Making of Belgian Beef
In this paper we explore the event of foodscares as an example of what Callon calls 'hot situations', in which the landscape of competing knowledge claims is at its most molten, and alternative production and consumption practices galvanise new modes of sense-making against the market and state-sanctioned rationalities of industrialisation. Through a case study of the Belgian cooperative Coprosain and its meat products, we examine the 'stuff' of …
Mapping knowledge controversies: Science, Democracy and the Redistribution of Expertise
Reflecting on conversations between geography and science and technology studies (STS) over the last 15 years or so, this paper addresses their shared interest in knowledge controversies as generative political events. It explores how such events give rise to new ways of practising relations between science and democracy focusing on the case of environmental knowledge claims and technologies. This exploration interrogates three mobilizations of e…
Earthly Powers and Affective Environments: An Ontological Politics of Flood Risk
In this article I set out to trace some of the implications of recharging the political potency of nature in more-than-human terms. This shifts attention from a biopolitical focus on the inventiveness of the life sciences and what this means in terms of the emergence of 'cyborg' political subjects to an onto-political focus on the inventiveness of knowledge controversies and what these mean for techno-political practices. Specifically, the articl…
Flood apprentices: An Exercise in Making Things Public
Taking our lead from Stengers' experimental constructivism, this paper reports on the invention of a research apparatus – the 'competency group' (CG) – that aims to put things capable of forcing thought and attachment to work in the exercise of new knowledge polities. It draws on the work of one such group based in Pickering, a town in the catchment of Ryedale with long experience of flooding. This group involved social and natural scientists wor…
Metabolising Risk: Food Scares and the Un/Re-Making of Belgian Beef
In this paper we explore the event of foodscares as an example of what Callon calls 'hot situations', in which the landscape of competing knowledge claims is at its most molten, and alternative production and consumption practices galvanise new modes of sense-making against the market and state-sanctioned rationalities of industrialisation. Through a case study of the Belgian cooperative Coprosain and its meat products, we examine the 'stuff' of …
Coproducing Flood Risk Knowledge: Redistributing Expertise in Critical 'Participatory Modelling
This paper suggests that computer simulation modelling can offer opportunities for redistributing expertise between science and affected publics in relation to environmental problems. However, in order for scientific modelling to contribute to the coproduction of new knowledge claims about environmental processes, scientists need to reposition themselves with respect to their modelling practices. In the paper we examine a process in which two hyd…
Learning through Computer Model Improvisations
It has been convincingly argued that computer simulation modeling differs from traditional science. If we understand simulation modeling as a new way of doing science, the manner in which scientists learn about the world through models must also be considered differently. This article examines how researchers learn about environmental processes through computer simulation modeling. Suggesting a conceptual framework anchored in a performative phil…
Remaking Environments: Histories, Practices, Policies
Metabolising Risk: Food Scares and the Un/Re-Making of Belgian Beef
In this paper we explore the event of foodscares as an example of what Callon calls 'hot situations', in which the landscape of competing knowledge claims is at its most molten, and alternative production and consumption practices galvanise new modes of sense-making against the market and state-sanctioned rationalities of industrialisation. Through a case study of the Belgian cooperative Coprosain and its meat products, we examine the 'stuff' of …
Remaking Environments: Histories, Practices, Policies
Mapping knowledge controversies: Science, Democracy and the Redistribution of Expertise
Reflecting on conversations between geography and science and technology studies (STS) over the last 15 years or so, this paper addresses their shared interest in knowledge controversies as generative political events. It explores how such events give rise to new ways of practising relations between science and democracy focusing on the case of environmental knowledge claims and technologies. This exploration interrogates three mobilizations of e…
Virtual Engineering
This paper discusses computer simulation modelling in the context of environmental risk management. Approaching computer simulation as practice, performed in networks of heterogeneous elements, we examine the modelling undertaken by engineering consultants commissioned to provide knowledge about local flood risk to the Environment Agency of England and Wales (EA), the public body responsible for flood risk management. We propose that this simulat…
Coproducing Flood Risk Knowledge: Redistributing Expertise in Critical 'Participatory Modelling
This paper suggests that computer simulation modelling can offer opportunities for redistributing expertise between science and affected publics in relation to environmental problems. However, in order for scientific modelling to contribute to the coproduction of new knowledge claims about environmental processes, scientists need to reposition themselves with respect to their modelling practices. In the paper we examine a process in which two hyd…
Flood apprentices: An Exercise in Making Things Public
Taking our lead from Stengers' experimental constructivism, this paper reports on the invention of a research apparatus – the 'competency group' (CG) – that aims to put things capable of forcing thought and attachment to work in the exercise of new knowledge polities. It draws on the work of one such group based in Pickering, a town in the catchment of Ryedale with long experience of flooding. This group involved social and natural scientists wor…
Learning through Computer Model Improvisations
It has been convincingly argued that computer simulation modeling differs from traditional science. If we understand simulation modeling as a new way of doing science, the manner in which scientists learn about the world through models must also be considered differently. This article examines how researchers learn about environmental processes through computer simulation modeling. Suggesting a conceptual framework anchored in a performative phil…
Earthly Powers and Affective Environments: An Ontological Politics of Flood Risk
In this article I set out to trace some of the implications of recharging the political potency of nature in more-than-human terms. This shifts attention from a biopolitical focus on the inventiveness of the life sciences and what this means in terms of the emergence of 'cyborg' political subjects to an onto-political focus on the inventiveness of knowledge controversies and what these mean for techno-political practices. Specifically, the articl…
Virtually Expert: Modes of Environmental Computer Simulation Modeling
Argument This paper challenges three assumptions common in the literature on expertise: that expertise is linearly derived from scientific knowledge; that experts always align with the established institutional order; and that expertise is a property acquired by individuals. We criticize these ideas by juxtaposing three distinct expert practices involved with flood risk management in England. Virtual engineering is associated with commercial cons…
Community modelling: A technique for enhancing local capacity to engage with flood risk management
Rural Restructuring: Global Processes and Their Responses
Stakeholder engagement does not guarantee impact: A co-productionist perspective on model-based drought research
Stakeholder engagement has become a watchword for environmental scientists to assert the societal relevance of their projects to funding agencies. In water research based on computer simulation modelling, stakeholder engagement has attracted interest as a means to overcome low uptake of new tools for water management. An increasingly accepted view is that more and better stakeholder involvement in research projects will lead to increased adoption…
Political science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Flood Risk Assessment and Management (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Flood myth (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Social science (4 works)