Science Policy and STS from Other Epistemic Places
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5337388 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Garforth (0000-0003-0240-9558, Newcastle University, corresponding author), Tereza Stöckelová (0000-0001-9251-7987, Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 226-240 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0162243911417137 |
| OpenAlex | W2080937256 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 27 |
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 involved in science work. This collection of papers focuses on these connections between STS and contemporary research policies. They explore empirical material from 'other epistemic places' (disciplinary, geo-political and spatial) to foreground and critique what is privileged and rewarded by science policies. But they also seek to make a theoretical contribution to STS itself, showing how its early focus on the hard centres of global technoscience have been constitutive of its characteristic concerns, epistemologies -and blind spots. As science studies moves out of the lab andbeyond the heartlands of the political West and global North, we argue that acknowledging some problematic affinities between science studies and science policy is both a critical necessity and an opportunity for new insights
Discipline · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Science studies · Social science · Sociology · Technoscience · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration · Law
Re-Thinking Science
Science in action
Putting Science in Its Place
Academic Capitalism and the New Economy
An Engine, Not a Camera
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Introduction
Why Science Studies Has Never Been Critical of Science
A Postcolonial Moment in Science Studies
After Method
Audit Cultures
Gradgrinding the Social Sciences
Introduction
Placing the View from Nowhere
Not Another Case Study
How Many Policy Rooms are There
Crossing Boundaries Social Science in the Policy Room
Multi-sited Ethnography as a Middle Range Methodology for Contemporary STS
On the Methods of Long-Distance Control
Postcolonial and feminist philosophies of science and technology
For Weber. Essays on the Sociology of Fate
Epistemic Cultures
Objects and Spaces
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2023 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |