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21 produkter

Internationalization of the Social Sciences – Asia–Latin America–Middle East–Africa–Eurasia
AvMichael Kuhn,Doris Weidemann
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
538 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
Internationalization of the social sciences rests on the setup of international scientific infrastructures, networks, and research agendas. Yet it has also stimulated discussions on academic dependency and the need for the indigenization of theories and methods. This book traces phenomena that accompany the internationalization of social sciences in different parts of the world. Contributions from East Asia, India, Russia, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, South Africa, and Latin America offer manifold perspectives on the pathways and desiderata of internationalization and make this volume an important basis for future debates.
Wahrheit und Nützlichkeit
AvDavid Kaldewey
Häftad, Tyska
427 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
On Folding
Towards a New Field of Interdisciplinary Research
AvMichael Friedman,Wolfgang Schaffner
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
596 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
It is only recently, with the increasing interest in origami and folding in natural sciences and the humanities, that the fold as a new conception in a whole range of disciplines has begun to be conceived in a broader way. Folding as a material and structural process offers a new methodology to think about the close relationship of matter, form and code. It henceforth crosses out old dichotomies, such as the organic and the inorganic or nature and technology, and blurs the boundaries between experimental, conceptual and historical approaches.This anthology aims to unfold this new interdisciplinary field and its disciplinary impact, ranging from materials science, biology, architecture, and mathematics to literature and philosophy.
Science, Art, and Neuroethics – Transdisciplinary Collaborations to Foster Public Engagement
AvMathilde Bessert–nettelb,Oliver Müllerm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
396 kr
Kommande
Research in the field of neurotechnology raises ethical and societal questions and thus represents a particular challenge for public engagement efforts. How should formats of public outreach be shaped to encourage public reflection on science? How can the one-way nature of communication between the expert and lay people be overcome? This anthology introduces a special concept of public outreach relying on participatory events that create a productive overlap of the fields of science and art. The contributors from various disciplines discuss the relationship of both spheres, present current science/art initiatives, and locate this transdisciplinary approach within the debate on public engagement theories and higher education policy specifications.
Construction of Analogy–Based Research Progr – The Lock–and–Key Analogy in 20th Century Biochemistry
AvRebecca Mertens
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
512 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
When the German chemist Emil Fischer presented his lock-and-key hypothesis in 1899, his analogy to describe the molecular relationship between enzymes and substrates quickly gained vast influence and provided future generations of scientists with a tool to investigate the relation between chemical structure and biological specificity.Rebecca Mertens explains the appeal of the lock-and-key analogy by its role in model building and in the construction of long-term, cross-generational research programs. She argues that a crucial feature of these research programs, namely ascertaining the continuity of core ideas and concepts, is provided by a certain way of analogy-based modelling.
Persistence of Technology – Histories of Repair, Reuse, and Disposal
AvStefan Krebs,Heike Weberm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
608 kr
Skickas
Repair, reuse and disposal are closely interlinked phenomena related to the service lives and persistence of technologies. When technical artefacts become old and worn out, decisions have to be taken: is it necessary, worthwhile or even possible to maintain and repair, reuse or dismantle them – or must they be discarded? These decisions depend on factors such as the availability of second-hand markets, repair infrastructures and dismantling or disposal facilities. In telling the stories of China's power grid, Canadian telephones, German automobiles and India's shipbreaking business, among others, the contributions in this volume highlight the persistence of technologies and show that maintenance and repair are not obsolete in modern industries and consumer societies.
Techno–Apparatus of Bodily Production – A New Materialist Theory of Technology and the Body
AvJosef Barla
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
422 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
What if the terms "technology" and "the body" did not refer to distinct phenomena interacting in one way or another? What if we understood their relationship as far more intimate – technologies as always already embodied, material bodies as always already technologized? What would it mean, then, to understand the relationship between technology and the body as a relation of indeterminacy?Expanding on the concept of the apparatus of bodily production in the work of Donna Haraway and Karen Barad, Josef Barla explores how material bodies along with their boundaries, properties, and meanings performatively materialize at sites where technological, biological, technoscientific, (bio-)political, and economic forces intra-act.
Genealogy of Popular Science – From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality
AvJesús Muñoz Morcillo,Caroline Y. Rob Trotham. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
917 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Despite the efforts of modern scholars to explain the origins of science communication as a social, rhetorical, and aesthetic phenomenon, most researchers approach the popularization of science from the perspective of present issues, thus ignoring its historical roots in classical culture along with its continuities, disruptions, and transformations.This volume fills this research gap with a genealogically reflected introduction into the popularization of science as a recurrent cultural technique. The category »popular science« is elucidated in interdisciplinary and diachronic dialogue, discussing case studies from all historical periods.Classicists, archaeologists, medievalists, art historians, sociologists, and historians of science provide the first diachronic and multi-layered approach to the rhetoric techniques, aesthetics, and societal conditions that have shaped the dissemination and reception of scientific knowledge.
Robotic Knitting – Re–Crafting Human–Robot Collaboration Through Careful Coboting
AvPat Treusch
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
596 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
As a reaction to typically dead-end debates on future human and robot collaboration that tend to be either dismissive or overly welcoming towards »cobot« technologies, this book provides a technofeminist intervention. Pat Treusch not only shows how both the fields of technofeminism and robotics can engage in a practical exchange through knitting, but also contributes a tangible example of coboting dynamics. Robotic Knitting re-negotiates the boundaries between formalisation and embodiment, craft and high-tech as well as useful and dysfunctional machines. It re-crafts the nature of collaboration between human and robot. This finally entails an alternative mode of relating – a mode that enables an account of careful coboting.
Plausibility of Future Scenarios – Conceptualising an Unexplored Criterion in Scenario Planning
AvRicarda Schmidt–scheele
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
890 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
What does plausibility mean in relation to scenario planning and how do users of scenarios assess it? Despite the concept's ubiquity, its epistemological and empirical foundations remain unexplored in previous research.Ricarda Schmidt-Scheele offers an interdisciplinary perspective: she presents approaches from philosophy of sciences, cognitive psychology, narrative theory and linguistics, and tests key hypotheses in an experimental study. A conceptual map lays out indicators for scenario plausibility and explains how assessments vary across scenario methods. This helps researchers and practitioners to better understand the implications of their methodological choices in scenario development.
More Than Machines? – The Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology
AvLaura Voss
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
427 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
We know that robots are just machines. Why then do we often talk about them as if they were alive? Laura Voss explores this fascinating phenomenon, providing a rich insight into practices of animacy (and inanimacy) attribution to robot technology: from science-fiction to robotics R&D, from science communication to media discourse, and from the theoretical perspectives of STS to the cognitive sciences. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, and backed by a wealth of empirical material, Voss shows how scientists, engineers, journalists – and everyone else – can face the challenge of robot technology appearing »a little bit alive« with a reflexive and yet pragmatic stance.
Climate Protection, Resource Efficiency, and Sustainable Engineering
Transdisciplinary Approaches to Design and Manufacturing Technology
AvIlona Horwath,Swetlana Schweizer
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
889 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
The big societal challenges, such as climate change and public health, call for innovative approaches to address them. The contributors of this book present new ways to tackle these challenges by inter- and transdisciplinary collaborations in light weight engineering. They introduce a framework for transdisciplinary collaboration, explore the potential of light weight engineering in the areas of climate protection, resource efficiency, and sustainable mobility. To do so, they exemplify results and limitations of transdisciplinary collaboration based on three case studies: the optimization of rescue tools, the re-design of products to foster re-use and recycling processes in companies and society, and the additive manufacturing of individualized assistive tools and prostheses.
Emotional Drivers of Innovation
Exploring the Moral Economy of Prototypes
AvFranziska Sorgel
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
816 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Innovation is ubiquitous and has become a universal term that is indispensable to describe interventions, projects, or products. Franziska Sörgel argues that emotions influence innovations as they are inherent in initial ideas, expectations and habitual evaluation criteria that impact the development process. Instead of assuming that the innovation process is subject to rational and linear creativity, the study adopts the notion of ›moral economies‹ by Lorraine Daston as a space for negotiation. Such an approach enables decision-makers to question the evaluation criteria and patterns for technological developments before implementing them in society.
At the Edge of AI
Human Computation Systems and Their Intraverting Relations
AvLibuse Hannah Veprek
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
890 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
How are human computation systems developed in the field of citizen science to achieve what neither humans nor computers can do alone? Through multiple perspectives and methods, Libuse Hannah Veprek examines the imagination of these assemblages, their creation, and everyday negotiation in the interplay of various actors and play/science entanglements at the edge of AI. Focusing on their human-technology relations, this ethnographic study shows how these formations are marked by intraversions, as they change with technological advancements and the actors' goals, motivations, and practices. This work contributes to the constructive and critical ethnographic engagement with human-AI assemblages in the making.
Order of People
Contesting Bio-Scientific Human Classifications
AvNils Ellebrecht,Tino Plümeckem. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
577 kr
Skickas
Bioscientific concepts of human diversity and politics of inequality have long been intertwined in efforts to order and classify people. The contributors to this volume critically examine the particular ways in which these concepts are constituted and applied across various national contexts and within different life science disciplines, including genetics, medicine, forensics, anthropology, epidemiology, and microbiome research. By highlighting cases outside the dominant research focus on the United States, the authors unpack the epistemological foundations, inherent ambiguities, and political dimensions underlying key classifications—such as race, ethnicity, ancestry, and migration background.
Envisaging Dataist Modernity
The Construction of Edinburgh's Innovation Apparatus
AvNicolas Zehner
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
964 kr
Kommande
The Edinburgh and South-East Scotland City Region Deal (CRD) constitutes a long-term infrastructure investment that is designed to transform the city region into the »Data Capital of Europe«. Drawing on science and technology studies and urban studies, Nicolas Zehner explores the question of who gets to imagine what kinds of urban-regional futures by investigating the emergence and early implementation of this large, multi-stakeholder urban-regional development project. Demonstrating the growing influence of universities in shaping desirable futures, he introduces the notion of "dataist modernity" to characterise the contemporary relationship between science, technology and urban planning.
Collecting Seeds, Assembling Worlds
An Inquiry into Agrobiodiversity Conservation Through the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
AvFranziska von Verschuer
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
964 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
How has the world lost three quarters of its crop diversity in less than a century? How does a collection of seeds frozen in the Arctic help face this loss and ensure future food security? And how can Indigenous knowledges and artistic interventions inspire modes of dealing with agrobiodiversity loss that respond to contemporary socio-ecological transformations with care rather than techno-salvationism? Franziska von Verschuer traces these questions from the world's stronghold against agrobiodiversity loss, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, to divergent worlds and modes of world-making it assembles along with seeds. This study shows that the future is more open than the popular story of the ›doomsday vault‹ suggests.
Making of Scientific Knowledge
Sensory and Bodily Practices in Field Biology
AvJana Thierfelder
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
1 067 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
What does really happen between the moment when a scientist is observing a bird in the wild and publishing a scientific chart? Jana Thierfelder reveals the hidden life of field science through the 30-year archive of biologist Michael Griesser’s work with Siberian jays in Sweden. Blending design, anthropology, and science studies, it uncovers the sketches, notes, tools, and sensory practices behind scientific knowledge. By tracing how scientific observation becomes publication, it shows that science is not just objective output – but lived, embodied, and relational work. It is about the people, places, and processes that shape knowledge. A call for more open, transdisciplinary approaches to how we understand and share science.
Understanding Science with Large Language Models?
Potentials for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science
AvArno Simons,Adrian Wüthrichm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
580 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
How are large language models (LLMs) changing research in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science (HPSS)? The contributors to this volume show how these tools open new possibilities for interpretative scholarship while posing fresh challenges for fields that thrive on qualitative methods, nuance, and historical depth. In essays, dialogues, and provocations, they capture a field in motion at a pivotal moment, driven by the rise of AI. These insights speak not only to HPSS scholars but also to readers across the humanities, social sciences, and AI-related fields, positioning HPSS as a bridge for understanding and shaping how LLMs enter research and society.
Inclusion in Science
The Social Architecture of Science-Public Relations
AvClaudia Göbel
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
810 kr
Kommande
Relations between science and publics are tricky affairs. While public participation in science is expanding, it regularly falls short of emancipatory hopes. Claudia Göbel analyzes these tensions as an important feature of contemporary society. She develops an extended model of inclusion in science by bringing science and technology studies, sociology of science and science communication studies into conversation. Popular science audiences and amateur researchers are conceptualized as integral to science, showing how these precarious roles complement professional scientists. The model offers a versatile framework for empirical research and new comparative perspectives on the multiple publics of science and their intricate relations.
Professionalisation of Medical Education
The Rise of Simulation-Based Training
AvJasmin Dierkes
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
591 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Simulation-based training (SBT) has been on the rise as a medical education methodology in Germany since the 1980s, characterising this period of change in terms of professionalisation and institutionalisation. Jasmin Dierkes illustrates how SBT reflects significant historical and contemporary shifts in education, science and technology, and the medical profession, all of which are undergoing profound, albeit incremental, changes. Her study provides insights for researchers specialising in professional development, transformation, medical materiality, or educational and institutional structures, as well as to stakeholders in medical or higher education.

Science Studies – serie

Visar alla böcker i serien Science Studies. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.

21 produkter

Kategorier

21 produkter

Internationalization of the Social Sciences – Asia–Latin America–Middle East–Africa–Eurasia
AvMichael Kuhn,Doris Weidemann
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
538 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
Internationalization of the social sciences rests on the setup of international scientific infrastructures, networks, and research agendas. Yet it has also stimulated discussions on academic dependency and the need for the indigenization of theories and methods. This book traces phenomena that accompany the internationalization of social sciences in different parts of the world. Contributions from East Asia, India, Russia, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, South Africa, and Latin America offer manifold perspectives on the pathways and desiderata of internationalization and make this volume an important basis for future debates.
Wahrheit und Nützlichkeit
AvDavid Kaldewey
Häftad, Tyska
427 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
On Folding
Towards a New Field of Interdisciplinary Research
AvMichael Friedman,Wolfgang Schaffner
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
596 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
It is only recently, with the increasing interest in origami and folding in natural sciences and the humanities, that the fold as a new conception in a whole range of disciplines has begun to be conceived in a broader way. Folding as a material and structural process offers a new methodology to think about the close relationship of matter, form and code. It henceforth crosses out old dichotomies, such as the organic and the inorganic or nature and technology, and blurs the boundaries between experimental, conceptual and historical approaches.This anthology aims to unfold this new interdisciplinary field and its disciplinary impact, ranging from materials science, biology, architecture, and mathematics to literature and philosophy.
Science, Art, and Neuroethics – Transdisciplinary Collaborations to Foster Public Engagement
AvMathilde Bessert–nettelb,Oliver Müllerm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
396 kr
Kommande
Research in the field of neurotechnology raises ethical and societal questions and thus represents a particular challenge for public engagement efforts. How should formats of public outreach be shaped to encourage public reflection on science? How can the one-way nature of communication between the expert and lay people be overcome? This anthology introduces a special concept of public outreach relying on participatory events that create a productive overlap of the fields of science and art. The contributors from various disciplines discuss the relationship of both spheres, present current science/art initiatives, and locate this transdisciplinary approach within the debate on public engagement theories and higher education policy specifications.
Construction of Analogy–Based Research Progr – The Lock–and–Key Analogy in 20th Century Biochemistry
AvRebecca Mertens
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
512 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
When the German chemist Emil Fischer presented his lock-and-key hypothesis in 1899, his analogy to describe the molecular relationship between enzymes and substrates quickly gained vast influence and provided future generations of scientists with a tool to investigate the relation between chemical structure and biological specificity.Rebecca Mertens explains the appeal of the lock-and-key analogy by its role in model building and in the construction of long-term, cross-generational research programs. She argues that a crucial feature of these research programs, namely ascertaining the continuity of core ideas and concepts, is provided by a certain way of analogy-based modelling.
Persistence of Technology – Histories of Repair, Reuse, and Disposal
AvStefan Krebs,Heike Weberm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
608 kr
Skickas
Repair, reuse and disposal are closely interlinked phenomena related to the service lives and persistence of technologies. When technical artefacts become old and worn out, decisions have to be taken: is it necessary, worthwhile or even possible to maintain and repair, reuse or dismantle them – or must they be discarded? These decisions depend on factors such as the availability of second-hand markets, repair infrastructures and dismantling or disposal facilities. In telling the stories of China's power grid, Canadian telephones, German automobiles and India's shipbreaking business, among others, the contributions in this volume highlight the persistence of technologies and show that maintenance and repair are not obsolete in modern industries and consumer societies.
Techno–Apparatus of Bodily Production – A New Materialist Theory of Technology and the Body
AvJosef Barla
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
422 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
What if the terms "technology" and "the body" did not refer to distinct phenomena interacting in one way or another? What if we understood their relationship as far more intimate – technologies as always already embodied, material bodies as always already technologized? What would it mean, then, to understand the relationship between technology and the body as a relation of indeterminacy?Expanding on the concept of the apparatus of bodily production in the work of Donna Haraway and Karen Barad, Josef Barla explores how material bodies along with their boundaries, properties, and meanings performatively materialize at sites where technological, biological, technoscientific, (bio-)political, and economic forces intra-act.
Genealogy of Popular Science – From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality
AvJesús Muñoz Morcillo,Caroline Y. Rob Trotham. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
917 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Despite the efforts of modern scholars to explain the origins of science communication as a social, rhetorical, and aesthetic phenomenon, most researchers approach the popularization of science from the perspective of present issues, thus ignoring its historical roots in classical culture along with its continuities, disruptions, and transformations.This volume fills this research gap with a genealogically reflected introduction into the popularization of science as a recurrent cultural technique. The category »popular science« is elucidated in interdisciplinary and diachronic dialogue, discussing case studies from all historical periods.Classicists, archaeologists, medievalists, art historians, sociologists, and historians of science provide the first diachronic and multi-layered approach to the rhetoric techniques, aesthetics, and societal conditions that have shaped the dissemination and reception of scientific knowledge.
Robotic Knitting – Re–Crafting Human–Robot Collaboration Through Careful Coboting
AvPat Treusch
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
596 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
As a reaction to typically dead-end debates on future human and robot collaboration that tend to be either dismissive or overly welcoming towards »cobot« technologies, this book provides a technofeminist intervention. Pat Treusch not only shows how both the fields of technofeminism and robotics can engage in a practical exchange through knitting, but also contributes a tangible example of coboting dynamics. Robotic Knitting re-negotiates the boundaries between formalisation and embodiment, craft and high-tech as well as useful and dysfunctional machines. It re-crafts the nature of collaboration between human and robot. This finally entails an alternative mode of relating – a mode that enables an account of careful coboting.
Plausibility of Future Scenarios – Conceptualising an Unexplored Criterion in Scenario Planning
AvRicarda Schmidt–scheele
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
890 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
What does plausibility mean in relation to scenario planning and how do users of scenarios assess it? Despite the concept's ubiquity, its epistemological and empirical foundations remain unexplored in previous research.Ricarda Schmidt-Scheele offers an interdisciplinary perspective: she presents approaches from philosophy of sciences, cognitive psychology, narrative theory and linguistics, and tests key hypotheses in an experimental study. A conceptual map lays out indicators for scenario plausibility and explains how assessments vary across scenario methods. This helps researchers and practitioners to better understand the implications of their methodological choices in scenario development.
More Than Machines? – The Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology
AvLaura Voss
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
427 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
We know that robots are just machines. Why then do we often talk about them as if they were alive? Laura Voss explores this fascinating phenomenon, providing a rich insight into practices of animacy (and inanimacy) attribution to robot technology: from science-fiction to robotics R&D, from science communication to media discourse, and from the theoretical perspectives of STS to the cognitive sciences. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, and backed by a wealth of empirical material, Voss shows how scientists, engineers, journalists – and everyone else – can face the challenge of robot technology appearing »a little bit alive« with a reflexive and yet pragmatic stance.
Climate Protection, Resource Efficiency, and Sustainable Engineering
Transdisciplinary Approaches to Design and Manufacturing Technology
AvIlona Horwath,Swetlana Schweizer
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
889 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
The big societal challenges, such as climate change and public health, call for innovative approaches to address them. The contributors of this book present new ways to tackle these challenges by inter- and transdisciplinary collaborations in light weight engineering. They introduce a framework for transdisciplinary collaboration, explore the potential of light weight engineering in the areas of climate protection, resource efficiency, and sustainable mobility. To do so, they exemplify results and limitations of transdisciplinary collaboration based on three case studies: the optimization of rescue tools, the re-design of products to foster re-use and recycling processes in companies and society, and the additive manufacturing of individualized assistive tools and prostheses.
Emotional Drivers of Innovation
Exploring the Moral Economy of Prototypes
AvFranziska Sorgel
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
816 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Innovation is ubiquitous and has become a universal term that is indispensable to describe interventions, projects, or products. Franziska Sörgel argues that emotions influence innovations as they are inherent in initial ideas, expectations and habitual evaluation criteria that impact the development process. Instead of assuming that the innovation process is subject to rational and linear creativity, the study adopts the notion of ›moral economies‹ by Lorraine Daston as a space for negotiation. Such an approach enables decision-makers to question the evaluation criteria and patterns for technological developments before implementing them in society.
At the Edge of AI
Human Computation Systems and Their Intraverting Relations
AvLibuse Hannah Veprek
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
890 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
How are human computation systems developed in the field of citizen science to achieve what neither humans nor computers can do alone? Through multiple perspectives and methods, Libuse Hannah Veprek examines the imagination of these assemblages, their creation, and everyday negotiation in the interplay of various actors and play/science entanglements at the edge of AI. Focusing on their human-technology relations, this ethnographic study shows how these formations are marked by intraversions, as they change with technological advancements and the actors' goals, motivations, and practices. This work contributes to the constructive and critical ethnographic engagement with human-AI assemblages in the making.
Order of People
Contesting Bio-Scientific Human Classifications
AvNils Ellebrecht,Tino Plümeckem. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
577 kr
Skickas
Bioscientific concepts of human diversity and politics of inequality have long been intertwined in efforts to order and classify people. The contributors to this volume critically examine the particular ways in which these concepts are constituted and applied across various national contexts and within different life science disciplines, including genetics, medicine, forensics, anthropology, epidemiology, and microbiome research. By highlighting cases outside the dominant research focus on the United States, the authors unpack the epistemological foundations, inherent ambiguities, and political dimensions underlying key classifications—such as race, ethnicity, ancestry, and migration background.
Envisaging Dataist Modernity
The Construction of Edinburgh's Innovation Apparatus
AvNicolas Zehner
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
964 kr
Kommande
The Edinburgh and South-East Scotland City Region Deal (CRD) constitutes a long-term infrastructure investment that is designed to transform the city region into the »Data Capital of Europe«. Drawing on science and technology studies and urban studies, Nicolas Zehner explores the question of who gets to imagine what kinds of urban-regional futures by investigating the emergence and early implementation of this large, multi-stakeholder urban-regional development project. Demonstrating the growing influence of universities in shaping desirable futures, he introduces the notion of "dataist modernity" to characterise the contemporary relationship between science, technology and urban planning.
Collecting Seeds, Assembling Worlds
An Inquiry into Agrobiodiversity Conservation Through the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
AvFranziska von Verschuer
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
964 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
How has the world lost three quarters of its crop diversity in less than a century? How does a collection of seeds frozen in the Arctic help face this loss and ensure future food security? And how can Indigenous knowledges and artistic interventions inspire modes of dealing with agrobiodiversity loss that respond to contemporary socio-ecological transformations with care rather than techno-salvationism? Franziska von Verschuer traces these questions from the world's stronghold against agrobiodiversity loss, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, to divergent worlds and modes of world-making it assembles along with seeds. This study shows that the future is more open than the popular story of the ›doomsday vault‹ suggests.
Making of Scientific Knowledge
Sensory and Bodily Practices in Field Biology
AvJana Thierfelder
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
1 067 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
What does really happen between the moment when a scientist is observing a bird in the wild and publishing a scientific chart? Jana Thierfelder reveals the hidden life of field science through the 30-year archive of biologist Michael Griesser’s work with Siberian jays in Sweden. Blending design, anthropology, and science studies, it uncovers the sketches, notes, tools, and sensory practices behind scientific knowledge. By tracing how scientific observation becomes publication, it shows that science is not just objective output – but lived, embodied, and relational work. It is about the people, places, and processes that shape knowledge. A call for more open, transdisciplinary approaches to how we understand and share science.
Understanding Science with Large Language Models?
Potentials for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science
AvArno Simons,Adrian Wüthrichm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
580 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
How are large language models (LLMs) changing research in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science (HPSS)? The contributors to this volume show how these tools open new possibilities for interpretative scholarship while posing fresh challenges for fields that thrive on qualitative methods, nuance, and historical depth. In essays, dialogues, and provocations, they capture a field in motion at a pivotal moment, driven by the rise of AI. These insights speak not only to HPSS scholars but also to readers across the humanities, social sciences, and AI-related fields, positioning HPSS as a bridge for understanding and shaping how LLMs enter research and society.
Inclusion in Science
The Social Architecture of Science-Public Relations
AvClaudia Göbel
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
810 kr
Kommande
Relations between science and publics are tricky affairs. While public participation in science is expanding, it regularly falls short of emancipatory hopes. Claudia Göbel analyzes these tensions as an important feature of contemporary society. She develops an extended model of inclusion in science by bringing science and technology studies, sociology of science and science communication studies into conversation. Popular science audiences and amateur researchers are conceptualized as integral to science, showing how these precarious roles complement professional scientists. The model offers a versatile framework for empirical research and new comparative perspectives on the multiple publics of science and their intricate relations.
Professionalisation of Medical Education
The Rise of Simulation-Based Training
AvJasmin Dierkes
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
591 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Simulation-based training (SBT) has been on the rise as a medical education methodology in Germany since the 1980s, characterising this period of change in terms of professionalisation and institutionalisation. Jasmin Dierkes illustrates how SBT reflects significant historical and contemporary shifts in education, science and technology, and the medical profession, all of which are undergoing profound, albeit incremental, changes. Her study provides insights for researchers specialising in professional development, transformation, medical materiality, or educational and institutional structures, as well as to stakeholders in medical or higher education.

Science Studies – serie

Internationalization of the Social Sciences – Asia–Latin America–Middle East–Africa–Eurasia

Wahrheit und Nützlichkeit

On Folding

Science, Art, and Neuroethics – Transdisciplinary Collaborations to Foster Public Engagement

Construction of Analogy–Based Research Progr – The Lock–and–Key Analogy in 20th Century Biochemistry

Persistence of Technology – Histories of Repair, Reuse, and Disposal

Techno–Apparatus of Bodily Production – A New Materialist Theory of Technology and the Body

Genealogy of Popular Science – From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality

Robotic Knitting – Re–Crafting Human–Robot Collaboration Through Careful Coboting

Plausibility of Future Scenarios – Conceptualising an Unexplored Criterion in Scenario Planning

More Than Machines? – The Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology

Climate Protection, Resource Efficiency, and Sustainable Engineering

Emotional Drivers of Innovation

At the Edge of AI

Order of People

Envisaging Dataist Modernity

Collecting Seeds, Assembling Worlds

Making of Scientific Knowledge

Understanding Science with Large Language Models?

Inclusion in Science

Professionalisation of Medical Education

Science Studies – serie

Internationalization of the Social Sciences – Asia–Latin America–Middle East–Africa–Eurasia

Wahrheit und Nützlichkeit

On Folding

Science, Art, and Neuroethics – Transdisciplinary Collaborations to Foster Public Engagement

Construction of Analogy–Based Research Progr – The Lock–and–Key Analogy in 20th Century Biochemistry

Persistence of Technology – Histories of Repair, Reuse, and Disposal

Techno–Apparatus of Bodily Production – A New Materialist Theory of Technology and the Body

Genealogy of Popular Science – From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality

Robotic Knitting – Re–Crafting Human–Robot Collaboration Through Careful Coboting

Plausibility of Future Scenarios – Conceptualising an Unexplored Criterion in Scenario Planning

More Than Machines? – The Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology

Climate Protection, Resource Efficiency, and Sustainable Engineering

Emotional Drivers of Innovation

At the Edge of AI

Order of People

Envisaging Dataist Modernity

Collecting Seeds, Assembling Worlds

Making of Scientific Knowledge

Understanding Science with Large Language Models?

Inclusion in Science

Professionalisation of Medical Education

Science Studies – serie

Internationalization of the Social Sciences – Asia–Latin America–Middle East–Africa–Eurasia

Wahrheit und Nützlichkeit

On Folding

Science, Art, and Neuroethics – Transdisciplinary Collaborations to Foster Public Engagement

Construction of Analogy–Based Research Progr – The Lock–and–Key Analogy in 20th Century Biochemistry

Persistence of Technology – Histories of Repair, Reuse, and Disposal

Techno–Apparatus of Bodily Production – A New Materialist Theory of Technology and the Body

Genealogy of Popular Science – From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality

Robotic Knitting – Re–Crafting Human–Robot Collaboration Through Careful Coboting

Plausibility of Future Scenarios – Conceptualising an Unexplored Criterion in Scenario Planning

More Than Machines? – The Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology

Climate Protection, Resource Efficiency, and Sustainable Engineering

Emotional Drivers of Innovation

At the Edge of AI

Order of People

Envisaging Dataist Modernity

Collecting Seeds, Assembling Worlds

Making of Scientific Knowledge

Understanding Science with Large Language Models?

Inclusion in Science

Professionalisation of Medical Education

Science Studies – serie

Internationalization of the Social Sciences – Asia–Latin America–Middle East–Africa–Eurasia

Wahrheit und Nützlichkeit

On Folding

Science, Art, and Neuroethics – Transdisciplinary Collaborations to Foster Public Engagement

Construction of Analogy–Based Research Progr – The Lock–and–Key Analogy in 20th Century Biochemistry

Persistence of Technology – Histories of Repair, Reuse, and Disposal

Techno–Apparatus of Bodily Production – A New Materialist Theory of Technology and the Body

Genealogy of Popular Science – From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality

Robotic Knitting – Re–Crafting Human–Robot Collaboration Through Careful Coboting

Plausibility of Future Scenarios – Conceptualising an Unexplored Criterion in Scenario Planning

More Than Machines? – The Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology

Climate Protection, Resource Efficiency, and Sustainable Engineering

Emotional Drivers of Innovation