Caitriona Mcleish
Biographic Data
| ID | 4082995 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caitriona Mcleish |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caitriona |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcleish |
| SIGNATURE | MCLEISH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3938-7199 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
World wars and sociotechnical change in energy, food, and transport
The changing landscape of deep transitions
World wars and the age of oil
Preventing ‘A Virological Hiroshima’
This article examines representations of biological weapons during a crucial period in the recent history of this form of warfare. The study draws on a corpus of newspaper articles from the US New York Times and the UK Times and Guardian written around the time of the negotiation period of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, the international treaty banning this form of warfare. We argue that a conventional discourse can be found wherein biol…
Opening up the secret city of Stepnogorsk
For almost 30 years, the Soviet government hid a large part of its biological weapons programme behind the façade of a network of civilian bio‐technology facilities, called the All‐Union Production Association Biopreparat, which were established to overcome deficiencies in molecular biology and genetics research. This paper, which is developed from a presentation given during an ESRC‐sponsored seminar series, ‘Locating Technoscience: The Geograph…
Science and censorship in an age of bio-weapons threat
Concerns about the proliferation of biological weapons and the threat posed by their use, whether by warring nations or terrorists, have assumed greater political prominence in recent years. Betwee
World wars and the age of oil
The changing landscape of deep transitions
Opening up the secret city of Stepnogorsk
For almost 30 years, the Soviet government hid a large part of its biological weapons programme behind the façade of a network of civilian bio‐technology facilities, called the All‐Union Production Association Biopreparat, which were established to overcome deficiencies in molecular biology and genetics research. This paper, which is developed from a presentation given during an ESRC‐sponsored seminar series, ‘Locating Technoscience: The Geograph…
Science and censorship in an age of bio-weapons threat
Concerns about the proliferation of biological weapons and the threat posed by their use, whether by warring nations or terrorists, have assumed greater political prominence in recent years. Betwee
Opening up the secret city of Stepnogorsk
For almost 30 years, the Soviet government hid a large part of its biological weapons programme behind the façade of a network of civilian bio‐technology facilities, called the All‐Union Production Association Biopreparat, which were established to overcome deficiencies in molecular biology and genetics research. This paper, which is developed from a presentation given during an ESRC‐sponsored seminar series, ‘Locating Technoscience: The Geograph…
Preventing ‘A Virological Hiroshima’
This article examines representations of biological weapons during a crucial period in the recent history of this form of warfare. The study draws on a corpus of newspaper articles from the US New York Times and the UK Times and Guardian written around the time of the negotiation period of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, the international treaty banning this form of warfare. We argue that a conventional discourse can be found wherein biol…
World wars and the age of oil
World wars and sociotechnical change in energy, food, and transport
The changing landscape of deep transitions
Political science (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociotechnical system (3 works) · Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research (2 works) · Biological warfare (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)