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Science and Technology Studies meets development geographies [PDF]
, 2017 Enlightenment notions of science and technology have been crucial to imperial and colonial endeavors. They have come to stand for modernization and progress in a Eurocentric development agenda; later on, they have turned into the central objects of ...
Verne, Julia, Schurr, Carolin
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Making sense of Nordicness, or making Nordicness?
Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies, 2016 What is Nordic? Does it make sense to talk about Nordic Science and Technology Studies (STS)? If so, what kind of contributions could Nordic perspectives give to global STS and other disciplines?
Kristine Ask +2 more
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, 2021 During the last 10 years the Science and Technology Studies (STS) community has witnessed a flourishing, intense and multifaceted engagement around “care”.
Lydahl, Doris,, Lindén, Lisa,
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Cross‐disciplinary research is a priority for many academic institutions, with a growing body of scholarship dedicated to studying the central practice of cross‐disciplinarity: integration, or the synthesis of knowledge, information, and data across disciplines and domains.
Ciara Zogheib
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Cracking the Crystal in STS: Marcelo Fetz Talks with Harry Collins
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2018 In this interview, Harry Collins and Marcelo Fetz discuss Collins’ early work on the importance of tacit knowledge in laboratory research, the revolutionary spirit of early Science and Technology Studies (STS) research, and his concerns about its current
Marcelo Fetz,, Harry Collins
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract The issue of inequality caused by algorithms, termed ‘algorithmic inequality’, has recently attracted scholarly attention in many disciplines due to its profound implications for society. While the body of literature on algorithmic inequality has grown, there remains a lack of comprehensive understanding of its nature, drivers, and impact ...
Shiwei Jia, Jia Tina Du, Hui Yan
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Epistemological foundations of STS relations in science education
Amazônia, 2012 We aim to discuss the epistemological foundations of the STS (Science, Technology and Society) relations present in issues considered socially relevant in science education.
Luciana de Nazaré Farias +2 more
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Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.This article will analyze the uncertainties around collecting and classifying Hydnora africana in the first half of the nineteenth century. Emerging from the distinctive dryland ecologies of South Africa, Hydnora was interpreted as strange and cryptic by Europeans primarily because it is a root parasite—a complex floral trait that was little understood.
Katherine Arnold
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Controversy studies and analysis
Arguably, Science and Technology Studies (STS) was born in part out of the merger of two contrasting approaches to controversy studies during the 1970s and 80s.
Elam, Mark,
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Nonhuman Mobilities and Multispecies Border Regimes in (Post‐)Colonial Southern Africa**
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.This article explores how borders in Southern Africa—such as Namibia's internal veterinary and settler border (Red Line) and national borders between Namibia, South Africa, and Botswana—functioned not only as territorial dividers but as tools to shape colonial and postcolonial multispecies hierarchies. These borders regulated human and animal movement,
Luregn Lenggenhager
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