Biologi under lupp

This study examines conceptions about the biology discipline and its practices, which are explicitly and implicitly presented in biology environments at Swedish universities. The empirical material has been obtained through “shadowing” and interviewing biologists and is analyzed with inspiration from Gee’s discourse analysis. The overall biology discourse consists of a number of sub-discourses, which sometimes express tensions between each other. One of these is the discourse of superior research with competitive, high performance, heavily equipped environments – a discourse which is in opposition to teaching activities. Another sub-discourse concerns the successful strategic biologist, and this discourse is in tension with the discourse of the enthusiastic, devoted, nature-loving biologist. The meritocratic discourse characterized by competence, knowledge and talent supposedly without the influence of gender, ethnicity, or class, contrasts, in its turn, with the discourse of the gendered practice that is visible in the material. These different sub-discourses are more or less inclusive for different individuals, something which can be observed in the gendered practices

Civil discourse · Competence (human resources · Discourse analysis · Epistemology · Interview · Linguistics · Meritocracy · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

• Dedicating, faking, and surviving

  Open Access•Katerina Pia Günter, Luc F Bussière et al.•International Journal of Science…•2023

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• “I try to encourage my students to think, read, and talk science” intelligible identities in university teachers' figured worlds of higher education biology

  Open Access•Katerina Pia Günter, Ingrid Ahnesjö et al.•Journal of Research in Science…•2023

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• Science in action

  Bruno Latour•Science in action•1987

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• The science question in feminism

  Sandra G Harding•The science question in feminism•1986

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• Anthropology of Learning

  Cathrine Hasse•Anthropology of Learning•2014

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• The tension between marketisation and academisation in higher education

  Anne-Charlotte Ek, Malin Ideland et al.•Studies in Higher Education•2013

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• Primate Visions

  Donna J Haraway•Primate Visions•2013

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• Situated Knowledges

  Donna Haraway•Feminist Studies•1988

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