Priska Gisler
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 82911 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Priska Gisler |
| PRENOMES | Priska |
| SOBRENOME | Gisler |
| ASSINATURA | GISLER P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Zurich University of the Arts |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9812-4014 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Und der Geier schaut zu
Urban topologies of epistemic change
By tracing the history of maps of the Zurich Zoo since its inception in 1929, I enquire how ideas about human-animal relations in an urban context have changed. Linking Foucault's concept of the heterotopia with the ordering power of space allows to see that a map does more than show the way to one's favourite animals in a zoo. I suggest that the map can be understood as a necessary element in creating a heterotopia, an ‘other space', contributin…
Belästigung, -- Sexuelle
Companions at a Distance
In this paper we present a particular history of Limulus polyphemus, the horseshoe crab, as a means of expanding on Haraway’s notion of companion species. Drawing on accounts of the horseshoe crab’s role, on the one hand, in work of the Serological Museum at Rutgers University that spanned the 1940s to the 1970s, and, on the other, in the development of the limulus amebocyte lysate test, we trace some of the complexities of human-limulus relation…
Transforming a Station Hall into a Laboratory
In recent years, public science events have been designed as a means to foster a dialogue between science and the public and to contribute to ongoing policy processes. Regardless of their tangible outcome, such events rely on a certain framing, reconfigure scientific knowledge and conceptualise the public in specific ways. These constructs are exemplified by a science festival that was held in the train station hall in Zurich. Novel insights can …
Paradise Lost? ''Science'' and ''the Public'' after Asilomar
Scientists continually face public concerns over the potential risks of biotechnology. This article reflects on the 1970s when leading molecular biologists established a moratorium, and initiated the second international Asilomar conference, on recombinant DNA (rDNA) molecules. Since then, this event has been widely perceived as an important historical moment when scientific actors took into account public concerns. Yet, by focusing on the histor…
Instructions between the field and the lab
In a Science article published in 1953, Alan Boyden, a zoologist from Rutgers University and a pioneer in systematic serology, gave precise instructions on how to sample animal blood for the tissue collection that he housed in the Serological Museum. His instructions can be read as a ‘prospective account’ indicating the decisive shift in the history of the biological sciences towards the molecular level. It will be argued that Boyden’s narrative …
Double Lives, Double Narratives
Informing, involving or engaging? Science communication, in the ages of atom-, bio- and nanotechnology
Science communication has shifted considerably in Europe over the last decades. Three technology controversies on atoms, genes, and nanoscale sciences and nanotechnologies (NST) turned the style of communication from one-way information, participation and dialogues to the idea of an early and more democratic engagement of the public. Analyzing science communication developing over the three controversies, this article shows that what happened in …
The Reality of Experts and the Imagined Lay Person
This article examines the role of lay persons in the thinking and working of experts in different fields at the borders of academic knowledge production. The status of lay persons has been studied in the Public Understanding of Science (PUS) research, which has shed light on the implicit assumptions of the deficit model that experts usually apply to lay persons. This deficit model has been consistently criticized for its inadequacy. The purpose o…
Belästigung, — sexuelle
Belästigung, sexuelle
Die Zürcher Solarstrombörse – was sich aus einer Erfolgsstory lernen läßt
The Swiss Solarstrombörse is described as a successful model to promote renewable energies in an economically promising way. By order of the 2000 Watt Society – a project of the Strategy Sustainability (Strategie Nachhaltigkeit) of the ETH Bereich – we tried to find out, how in this particular case success was defined, how it was achieved and why exactly this can be done by combining solar electricity with the idea of an exchange model. Furthermo…
The Reality of Experts and the Imagined Lay Person
This article examines the role of lay persons in the thinking and working of experts in different fields at the borders of academic knowledge production. The status of lay persons has been studied in the Public Understanding of Science (PUS) research, which has shed light on the implicit assumptions of the deficit model that experts usually apply to lay persons. This deficit model has been consistently criticized for its inadequacy. The purpose o…
Informing, involving or engaging? Science communication, in the ages of atom-, bio- and nanotechnology
Science communication has shifted considerably in Europe over the last decades. Three technology controversies on atoms, genes, and nanoscale sciences and nanotechnologies (NST) turned the style of communication from one-way information, participation and dialogues to the idea of an early and more democratic engagement of the public. Analyzing science communication developing over the three controversies, this article shows that what happened in …
Die Zürcher Solarstrombörse – was sich aus einer Erfolgsstory lernen läßt
The Swiss Solarstrombörse is described as a successful model to promote renewable energies in an economically promising way. By order of the 2000 Watt Society – a project of the Strategy Sustainability (Strategie Nachhaltigkeit) of the ETH Bereich – we tried to find out, how in this particular case success was defined, how it was achieved and why exactly this can be done by combining solar electricity with the idea of an exchange model. Furthermo…
Belästigung, — sexuelle
Belästigung, sexuelle
The Reality of Experts and the Imagined Lay Person
This article examines the role of lay persons in the thinking and working of experts in different fields at the borders of academic knowledge production. The status of lay persons has been studied in the Public Understanding of Science (PUS) research, which has shed light on the implicit assumptions of the deficit model that experts usually apply to lay persons. This deficit model has been consistently criticized for its inadequacy. The purpose o…
Double Lives, Double Narratives
Informing, involving or engaging? Science communication, in the ages of atom-, bio- and nanotechnology
Science communication has shifted considerably in Europe over the last decades. Three technology controversies on atoms, genes, and nanoscale sciences and nanotechnologies (NST) turned the style of communication from one-way information, participation and dialogues to the idea of an early and more democratic engagement of the public. Analyzing science communication developing over the three controversies, this article shows that what happened in …
Instructions between the field and the lab
In a Science article published in 1953, Alan Boyden, a zoologist from Rutgers University and a pioneer in systematic serology, gave precise instructions on how to sample animal blood for the tissue collection that he housed in the Serological Museum. His instructions can be read as a ‘prospective account’ indicating the decisive shift in the history of the biological sciences towards the molecular level. It will be argued that Boyden’s narrative …
Companions at a Distance
In this paper we present a particular history of Limulus polyphemus, the horseshoe crab, as a means of expanding on Haraway’s notion of companion species. Drawing on accounts of the horseshoe crab’s role, on the one hand, in work of the Serological Museum at Rutgers University that spanned the 1940s to the 1970s, and, on the other, in the development of the limulus amebocyte lysate test, we trace some of the complexities of human-limulus relation…
Transforming a Station Hall into a Laboratory
In recent years, public science events have been designed as a means to foster a dialogue between science and the public and to contribute to ongoing policy processes. Regardless of their tangible outcome, such events rely on a certain framing, reconfigure scientific knowledge and conceptualise the public in specific ways. These constructs are exemplified by a science festival that was held in the train station hall in Zurich. Novel insights can …
Paradise Lost? ''Science'' and ''the Public'' after Asilomar
Scientists continually face public concerns over the potential risks of biotechnology. This article reflects on the 1970s when leading molecular biologists established a moratorium, and initiated the second international Asilomar conference, on recombinant DNA (rDNA) molecules. Since then, this event has been widely perceived as an important historical moment when scientific actors took into account public concerns. Yet, by focusing on the histor…
Belästigung, -- Sexuelle
Urban topologies of epistemic change
By tracing the history of maps of the Zurich Zoo since its inception in 1929, I enquire how ideas about human-animal relations in an urban context have changed. Linking Foucault's concept of the heterotopia with the ordering power of space allows to see that a map does more than show the way to one's favourite animals in a zoo. I suggest that the map can be understood as a necessary element in creating a heterotopia, an ‘other space', contributin…
Und der Geier schaut zu
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