scholarly journals Genealogies and Futures of Queer STS: Issues in Theory, Method, and Institutionalization

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Molldrem ◽  
Mitali Thakor
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Theory Method ◽  
History Of Sexuality ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Academic Practice ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
History Of

What is Queer STS, and what is new about it? In this “News in Focus” piece we situate recent efforts by various STS scholars to tinker and play with the intersections of queer studies and social studies of science and technology within a longer history of sexuality studies. We also narrate several critical new developments in academic collaborations in this growing subfield, from workshops to conference roundtables, and attempt to further develop Queer STS theory and praxis while negotiating the role of this nascent sphere of academic practice.

scholarly journals It’s Important to Go to the Laboratory: Malte Ziewitz Talks with Michael Lynch

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malte Ziewitz ◽  
Michael Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Blow Up ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Laboratory Studies ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
Origin Stories

Why would anyone still want to go to the laboratory in 2018? In this interview, Michael Lynch answers this and other questions, reflecting on his own journey in, through, and alongside the field of science and technology studies (STS). Starting from his days as a student of Harold Garfinkel’s at UCLA to more recent times as editor of Social Studies of Science, Lynch talks about the rise of origin stories in the field; the role of ethnomethodology in his thinking; the early days of laboratory studies; why “turns” and “waves” might better be called “spins”; what he learned from David Edge; why we should be skeptical of the presumption that STS enhances the democratization of science; and why it might be time to “blow up STS”––an appealing idea that Malte Ziewitz takes up in his reflection following the interview.

scholarly journals Democratizando a ciência no cenário internacional: um debate sobre conceito de comunidades epistêmicas e sua perspectiva da ciência na política internacional | Democratizing science on the international scene: a debate on the concept of epistemic communities and its perspective of science in international politics

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Aguilar Gayard
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Epistemic Communities ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
Technology Governance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Engagement In Science ◽  
National Perspective

Resumo O artigo retoma os debates e premissas sobre a democratização da governança em ciência e tecnologia, e os compara com a perspectiva da ciência predominante no conceito de comunidades epistêmicas no campo das relações internacionais. Ressalta os diferentes entendimentos sobre o binômio “ciência e tecnologia” nas abordagens debatidas. A revisão e comparação entre perspectivas da ciência aportadas pelos estudos sociais da ciência e tecnologia e pelas relações internacionais busca contribuir com o debate da democratização e engajamento público em ciência e tecnologia para além de uma perspectiva nacional. Conclui-se pela necessidade de integrar perspectivas e debates contemporâneos sobre uma produção de conhecimento heterogênea e múltipla na análise do conhecimento nas relações internacionais.Palavras-chave: Governança em C&T; Democratização; Comunidades Epistêmicas (Relações Internacionais).Abstract This article explores the debates around calls and experiments of democratization in science and technology governance, and compares them with the perspective of science embedded in the concept of epistemic communities, as employed by International Relations theories. It emphasizes the different understandings about "Science and Technology" in each of these approaches. The review and comparison between perspectives of science provided by the Social Studies of Science and Technology and International Relations seeks to contribute to the debate of democratization and public engagement in science and technology beyond a national perspective. The article concludes by pointing to the necessity of recognizing contemporary perspectives of knowledge, as a heterogeneous field of action composed by multiple actors and networks, for an improved analysis of the role of knowledge in international politics.Keywords: Governance in S&T; Democratization; Epistemic Communities (International Relations).

scholarly journals Personal networking function of the Internet

Sociologija ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalibor Petrovic
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Interpersonal Interaction ◽  
The Internet ◽  
History Of ◽  
Important Means ◽  
New Form ◽  
Networked Individualism

The aim of the paper is to understand the role of Internet in creating new forms of sociability in the modern society. In the first part the history of social studies of Internet is reviewed, and the conclusion put forward that the anti-social role of the Internet cannot be proved. In the theoretical part of the paper the author presents his idea of two basic roles of Internet as interpersonal interaction tool: transmissional and procreative. These two Internet functions are very important means for reproducing a new form of sociability known as networked individualism.

The Portuguese Army in Angola

1969 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas L. Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
New Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Future Events ◽  
Military Institutions ◽  
Traditional Patterns ◽  
Crucial Part

War and military institutions have played a crucial part in the history of Angola. Colonial wars, auxiliary armies, expeditions, and soldiergovernors fill the pages of this history, and it is no exaggeration to recall that military expenses have, except for some years during 1930–58, represented the major item in annual budgets since the sixteenth century, when the Portuguese began to conquer the Luanda hinterland. The character and role of the armed forces in Angola, however, have undergone changes: especially since 1961, new developments promise possibly important influences on future events in that territory, events which may not follow traditional patterns in history.

scholarly journals The Sociological Debate of the Life Sciences Research: from Molecular Biology to Human Genome Sequencing

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Renan Goncalves Leonel Da Silva ◽  
Maria Conceicao Da Costa
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Human Genome Sequencing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War

This paper presents some sociological debates involved in the new field of life sciences at the end of 20th century. From a bibliographic review concerning history of science and Social Studies of Science, it will be presented some particular sociological issues of the research on molecular biology and its historical evolution – the formation of speeches and legitimization; institutional arrangements and alliances in post-war period. We will focuses on the emerging systems of information and communication technology, ICTs. and how it transformed the biomedical research. The goal is to show briefly how molecular biology was built, from the post-war period to the end of the 90’s, and what was the main proceedings of interdisciplinary associations and technoscientific interactions in the life sciences agenda.

scholarly journals A Five-Year Engagement

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 411
Author(s):  
Abby J. Kinchy ◽  
Shobita Parthasarathy ◽  
Jason Delborne
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Technology And Society ◽  
Academic Practice ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Editorial Essay

In this editorial essay, Abby Kinchy, Shobita Parthasarathy, and Jason Delborne look back at the editorial and publishing practices of the first five-years of the journal Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS), the open access journal of The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). As three members of the inaugural ESTS Editorial Board, Kinchy, Parthasarathy, and Delborne reflect on what we value in academic practice, including publishing, and consider some of the highlights and accomplishments of ESTS’s first five years (2015-2020).

scholarly journals A “Middle Voice” from the South

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-87
Author(s):  
Jorge Núñez ◽  
Maka Suarez
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Epistemic Authority ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
The South ◽  
Middle Voice ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
Virtual Conference

In the 2020 Prague Virtual Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Sharon Traweek was awarded the society’s John D. Bernal Prize jointly with Langdon Winner. The Bernal Prize is awarded annually to individuals who have made distinguished contributions to the field of STS. Prize recipients include founders of the field of STS, along with outstanding scholars who have devoted their careers to the understanding of the social dimensions of science and technology. This is a reflection on Traweek’s work on epistemic authority in relation to Kaleidos—Center for Interdisciplinary Ethnography in Ecuador.

scholarly journals A Critical Reading of Aloha and Visual Sovereignty in Ke Kulana He Māhū

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Stephanie Nohelani Teves
Keyword(s):  
Queer Studies ◽  
Kanaka Maoli ◽  
Native Studies ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
Visual Sovereignty ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hawaiian Culture ◽  
Rhetorical Performance

Native Studies and Queer Studies have begun creating linkages that interrogate the normalization of heterosexuality within Native communities and the ways that settler colonialism has been unquestioned in Queer Studies scholarship. This article adds to this body of scholarship by performing a critical re-reading of the film, Ke Kulana He Māhū (2001), a film about the history of sexuality in Hawaiʻi and the role of māhūs in modern day Hawaiian culture. The film engages the struggles for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Hawaiʻi throughout the 1990s, but, curiously, it obscures the Hawaiian sovereignty movement that was happening simultaneously. Against this backdrop, I examine the rhetorical performance of aloha in the film and the dangers of harnessing Hawaiian culture to support the recognition of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) rights. This article also examines how the film participates in visual sovereignty to foreground Kanaka Maoli commitments to cultural identity, community and belonging.

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