States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and the Social Order

by Sheila Jasanoff (Editor)

Overview

Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1. The Idiom of Co-production Sheila Jasanoff 2. Ordering Knowledge, Ordering Society Sheila Jasanoff 3. Climate Science and the Making of a Global Political Order Clark A. Miller 4. Co-producing CITES and the African Elephant Charis Thompson 5. Knowledge and Political Order in the European Environment Agency Claire Waterton and Brian Wynne 6. Plants, Power and Development: Founding the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, 1880-1914 William K. Storey 7. Mapping Systems and Moral Order: Constituting property in genome laboratories Stephen Hilgartner 8. Patients and Scientists in French Muscular Dystrophy Research Vololona Rabeharisoa and Michel Callon 9. Circumscribing Expertise: Membership categories in courtroom testimony Michael Lynch 10. The Science of Merit and the Merit of Science: Mental order and social order in early twentieth-century France and America John Carson 11. Mysteries of State, Mysteries of Nature: Authority, knowledge and expertise in the seventeenth century Peter Dear 12. Reconstructing Sociotechnical Order: Vannevar Bush and US science policy Michael Aaron Dennis 13. Science and the Political Imagination in Contemporary Democracies Yaron Ezrah 14. Afterword Sheila Jasanoff References Index

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415333610
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/05/2004
Series:	International Library of Sociology
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sheila Jasanoff

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements 1. The Idiom of Co-production 2. Ordering Knowledge, Ordering Society 3. Climate Science and the Making of a Global Political Order 4. Co-producing CITES and the African Elephant 5. Knowledge and Political Order in the European Environment Agency 6. Plants, Power and Development: Founding the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, 1880-1914 7. Mapping Systems and Moral Order: Constituting Property in Genome Laboratories 8. Patients and Scientists in French Muscular Dystrophy Research 9. Circumscribing Expertise: Membership Categories in Courtroom Testimony 10. The Science of Merit and the Merit of Science: Mental Order and Social Order in Early Twentieth-Century France and America 11. Mysteries of State, Mysteries of Nature: Authority, Knowledge and Expertise in the Seventeenth Century 12. Reconstructing Sociotechnical Order: Vannevar Bush and US Science Policy 13. Science and the Political Imagination in Contemporary Democracies 14. Afterword. References. Index

Editorial Reviews

'A must read for students of [science and technology studies] ... the book should also be read by anyone studying environmental politics ... and it should be of interst for wider audiences in political studies, culture, geography and sociology.' - Tim Forsyth, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics, UK

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