The Latest Latour: Realism and Hope in Science StudiesPandora’s Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies by Bruno Latour. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1999, x, 324 p. $29.75 Cdn.

2001 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-310
Author(s):  
Gordon McOuat
Keyword(s):  
Science Studies ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Bruno Latour

A Product’s Glamour. Credibility, or the Manufacture and Administration of Truth in Early Modern Catholicism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Boute ◽  
Andreea Badea ◽  
Marco Cavarzere ◽  
Steven Vanden Broecke
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
History Of Knowledge ◽  
Early Modern Catholicism ◽  
Michel De Certeau ◽  
History Of ◽  
Universal Truth

This chapter furnishes the reader with a vademecum to the volume. It places uncertainty in the limelight as a key element for understanding confessional cultures and belief systems, and shows how early modern Catholicism struggled to find practical strategies for marrying deepseated uncertainties with its aim of operationalizing an absolute and revealed truth. Inspired by Michel de Certeau and Bruno Latour, among others, this introduction argues that a methodological transfer between science studies, history of knowledge, and religious history offers a toolkit to reconstruct the credibility of past beliefs. It introduces the volume’s focus on the myriad of connected laboratories and work floors of early modern Catholicism, and on the untainted emergence of a universal truth from such a multifarious activity. This praxeological approach is illustrated in the subsequent survey of this volume’s sections and chapters.

The rise (and decline) of American regional science: lessons for the new economic geography?

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor J. Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Economic Geography ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Regional Science ◽  
New Economic Geography ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Joint Work ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
Interpretative Framework

Abstract Regional science weaves in and out of the story of post-war economic geography. The vision of one man, the American economist Walter Isard, regional science represented the first systematic attempt to further joint work between geographers and economists. Within this context, the tasks of the paper are twofold. The first is to provide an interpretative history of the rise of regional science, and to a much lesser extent its decline. The interpretative framework derives from science studies, and in particular the work of Bruno Latour. The history is based on archival material and interviews. The second is to speculate briefly on the implications of both the interpretive framework used in the paper, and the history of regional science told, for the new economic geography that similarly attempts to convene discussions between economists and geographers.

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