Fields of Knowledge: Science, Politics and Publics in the Neoliberal Age

by Scott Frickel (Editor), David J. Hess (Editor)

Overview

This issue of Political Power and Social Theory explores the changes in science associated with the rise of neoliberalism since the 1970s. The neoliberalization of science has complicated interactions among states, markets, and civil society, often in ways that challenge major assumptions underlying decades of research. The articles collected here break with older Mertonian sociologies of science and constructivist microsociologies of scientific knowledge to examine the mesolevel problem of the changing institutional contexts of "the scientific field" as originally identified by Pierre Bourdieu. Papers presented in Part I extend Bourdieu's relational approach to the broader set of interactions among scientific, regulatory, industry, and social movement fields. Part II extends Bourdieu's concern with order and the scientific habitus to the changing patterns of scientific practices under neoliberalism. By reconceptualizing the central problem for the social studies of science as the political sociological problem of field and interfield dynamics, the collected papers chart an important theoretical agenda for future research in the study of sciencesociety relations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783506682
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	07/14/2014
Series:	Political Power and Social Theory , #27
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.18(d)

Table of Contents

List of Contributors vii

Senior Editorial Board ix

Student Editorial Board xi

Editorial Statement xiii

Series Editor's Introduction xv

Introduction: Fields of Knowledge and Theory Traditions in the Sociology of Science David J. Hess Scott Frickel 1

Part I Interfield Relations

Understanding Change in Academic Knowledge Production in a Neoliberal Era Mathieu Albert Wendy McGuire 33

Neoliberal Confluences: The Turbulent Evolution of Stream Mitigation Banking in the US Rebecca Lave 59

Beekeepers' Collective Resistance and the Politics of Pesticide Regulation in France and the United States Sainath Suryanarayanan Daniel Lee Kleinman 89

When Green Became Blue: Epistemic Rift And The Corralling Of Climate Science David J. Hess 123

Part II Institutional Logics

The Cultural Role of Science in Policy Implementation: Voluntary Self-Regulation in the UK Building Sector Libby Schneber 157

Field Theories and the Move Toward the Market in US Academic Science Elizabeth Popp Berman 193

"The Tip of the Day": Field Theory and Alternative Nutrition in the US Kelly Moore Matthew C. Hoffmann 223

What is Volunteer Water Monitoring Good For? Fracking and the Plural Logics of Participatory Science Abby Kinchy Kirk Jalbert Jessica Lyons 259