Syllabus/achievement requirements

Book: Collins, Harry & Evans, Robert (2007): Rethinking Expertise. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (160 pp).

Articles to download:

Anshelm, Jonas & Vasilis Galis (2009) “The Politics of High-Level Nuclear Waste Management in Sweden: Confined Research versus Research in the Wild” Environmental Policy and Governance 19(4): 269-280.

Asdal, Kristin (2008) ”Enacting things through numbers: Taking nature into account/ing.” Geoforum 39(1): 123-132.

Asdal, Kristin (2011) ”The Office: The Weakness of Numbers and the Production of Non-Authority”. Accounting, Organizations and Society 36(1): 1-9.

Barthe, Yannick (2009) “Framing Nuclear Waste as a Political Issue in France”. Journal of Risk Research 12(7): 941-954.

Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette (2009) ”A Historical Perspective on Science and Its ”Others””. Isis 100(2): 359-368.

Brante, Thomas & Margareta Hallberg (1991) “Brain or Heart? The Controversy over the Concept of Death”. Social Studies of Science 21: 389-413.

Callon, Michel (1999) ”The Role of Lay People in the Production and Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge”. Science, Technology & Society 4(1): 81-94.

Callon, Michel (1998) “An Essay on Framing and Overflowing: Economic Externalities Revisited by Sociology”. In Callon, M. (Ed) The Laws of the Markets, Oxford: Blackwell.

Callon, Michel & Vololona Rabeharisoa (2003) “Research “in the Wild” and the Shaping of New Social Identities”. Technology in Society 25(2): 193–204.

Collins, H. M. (1981) “Introduction: Stages in the Empirical Programme of Relativism”. Social Studies of Science 11( 1): 3-10.

Elam, Mark & G?ran Sundqvist (2011) “Meddling in Swedish Success in Nuclear Waste Management”. Environmental Politics 20(2): 246-263.

Irwin, Alan (2006) ”The Politics of Talk: Coming to Terms with the ‘New’ Scientific Governance”. Social Studies of Science 36(2): 299-320.

Jamieson, Dale (1996) ”Scientific Uncertainty and the political process”. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 545: 35-43.

Latour, Bruno (1998) “From the World of Science to the World of Research?”. Science 280 (5361): 208-209.

Latour, Bruno (2004) “Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern” 30(2): 225-248. Law, John (2003) “Traduction/Trahison: Notes on ANT”. Online paper

Marres, Noortje (2007) “The Issues Deserve More Credit: Pragmatist Contributions to the Study of Public Involvement in Controversy”. Social Studies of Science 37(5): 759-780.

Nelkin, Dorothy (1975) ”The Political Impact of Technical Expertise”. Social Studies of Science 5(1): 35-54.

Polanyi, Michael (1962) “The Republic of Science: Its Political and Economic Theory”. Minerva 1: 54-74.

Porter, Theodore M. (2009) ”How Science Became Technical”. Isis 100 (2): 292-302.

Rottenburg, Richard (2000) ”Accountability for development aid”, pp. 143-173 in Facts and figures. Economic representations and practices. Jahrbuch ?konomie und Gesellschaft 16, edited by Kalthoff, Herbert, Richard Rottenburg and Hans-Jürgen Wagener. Marburg: Metropolis. Available online

Rottenburg, Richard (2009) ”Prologue”, pp. xi-xxxiv in Far-Fetched Facts. A Parable of Development Aid. Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press. Available online

Shackley, Simon & Brian Wynne (1996) ”Representing Uncertainty in Global Climate Change Science and Policy: Boundary-Ordering Devices and Authority”. Science, Technology & Human Values 21(3): 273-302.

Travis, G.D.L. (1981) “Replicating Replication? Aspects of the Social Construction of Learning in Planarian Worms”. Social Studies of Science 11(1): 11-32.

Venturini, Tommaso (2010a) “Diving in Magma: How to Explore Controversies with Actor-Network Theory”. Public Understanding of Science 19(3): 258-273.

Venturini, Tommaso (2010b) “Building on Faults: How to Represent Controversies with Digital Methods”. Public Understanding of Science, 0963662510387558, first published on December 5, 2010.

Verran, Helen (2002) “A Postcolonial Moment in Science Studies: Alternative Firing Regimes of Environmental Scientists and Aboriginal Landowners.” Social Studies of Science 32: 729-761.

Wynne, Brian (2003) ”Seasick on the Third Wave? Subverting the Hegemony of Propositionalism”. Social Studies of Science 33(3): 401-417.

Wynne, Brian (2010) ”Strange Weather, Again: Climate Science as Political Art”. Theory, Culture & Society 27(2-3): 289-305.

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