Afterword

2020 ◽  
pp. 213-218
Author(s):  
Mei Zhan
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The State ◽  
The West ◽  
Institutional Interplay ◽  
Point Of Entry ◽  
Analytical Point ◽  
State And Market

This chapter reviews the collective exploration into the entanglements of science and technology, the state, the market, and everyday life in contemporary China. The chapter presents a compelling argument for why it is critical, at this particular moment, for anthropologists to step in and make their accounts and analyses of science in/of/and China relevant to academic and public discussions and debates. It emphasizes that China is not a place outside of the West where “usual science” proliferates and changes its forms in a non-Western national or cultural context. Rather, the translocal sociohistorical formation and the complex conceptual and institutional interplay of state, market, and technoscience shaping and shaped by post-Mao, post-socialist, and now Xi's authoritarian China demand thoughtful and experimental ethnographic engagement on the ground. The chapter also invokes governmentality as an analytical point of entry into the enmeshments of science, state, and market and as a way to forge a conversation with topics central to science and technology studies (STS) literatures.

scholarly journals Dis/Abling Practices: Rethinking Disability

Human Affairs ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Schillmeier
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Multiple Processes

Dis/Abling Practices: Rethinking DisabilityThe paper discusses how ordinary acts of everyday life make up the complex and contingent scenarios of disabilities that create enabling and disabling (dis/abling) practices. Drawing on qualitative empirical data the societal visibility and relevance of dis/abling practices are analyzed by connecting disability studies and sociological ideas with insights from Science and Technology Studies (STS). The essay explores how (visual) dis/ability is the outcome of human and non-human configurations and suggests that dis/ability can be understood neither as an individual bodily impairment nor as a socially attributed disability. Rather, dis/ability refers to complex sets of heterogeneous practices that (re-)associate bodies, material objects, and technologies with sensory practices. These practices, the paper concludes, draw attention to the multiple processes that (re-) concatenate the conduct of human affairs.

Technoethics and the State of Science and Technology Studies (STS) in Canada

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rocci Luppicini
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The State ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
Technology Study ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Core Content ◽  
University Degree

University degree programs in STS (Science and Technology Studies) represent a popular training ground for scholars and other professions dealing with advanced studies in science and technology. Degree programs in STS are currently offered at universities around the globe with various specializations and orientations. This study explores the nature of science and technology in Canada and the state of ethics within STS curriculum in Canada. STS degree programs offered under various titles at nine universities in Canada are examined. Findings reveal that ethical aspects of science and technology study is lacking from the core content of most Canadian academic programs in STS. Key challenges are addressed and suggestions are made on how to leverage STS programs within Canadian universities. This study advances the understanding of the developing field of STS in Canada from a technoethical perspective.

Governing Through Science

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Susan Greenhalgh
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The State ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Ecological Health ◽  
Basic Sciences ◽  
Chinese Science ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Private Entrepreneurs ◽  
China Today

This chapter presents the results of discussions based on research conducted between 2006 and 2018. It explores the makings, workings, and effects of various sciences and technologies. It focuses on an array of applied health and environmental knowledges and innovations being developed to solve some of the gravest problems of human and ecological health facing China today. The kinds of cutting-edge basic sciences that are being energetically promoted by the state and private entrepreneurs that remain a subject for future anthropological research. The chapter also makes two major intellectual interventions. First, under the rubric “governing through science,” the governance/governmentality approach to the study of Chinese science and technology is extended. Second, the analysis is deepened by adding the insights of science and technology studies.

scholarly journals Dancing with Data: Introducing a Creative Interactional Metaphor

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-548
Author(s):  
Darren J Reed
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Ballroom Dance ◽  
Interactional Analysis ◽  
Device Use ◽  
Interactional Features

In this article, a dance metaphor is developed to deepen our understanding of the material, sensual, processual, and experiential potential of digital data relations. Premised upon Blumer’s notion of a sensitising concept, ballroom dance theory is applied to everyday use of the Apple Watch so as to prompt investigation of subtle interactional features of device use. The aim is to engender an inclusive umbrella concept while simultaneously stimulating questions of analysis of and access to small-scale and intimate moments of embodied behaviours in future interactional analysis. In so doing, the article contributes to the sociology of data relationality in everyday life, as well as constituent approaches such as science and technology studies and the interactional study of bodies and machines.

Technoethics and the State of Science and Technology Studies (STS) in Canada

2012 ◽  
pp. 249-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rocci Luppicini
Keyword(s):  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The State ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
Technology Study ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Core Content ◽  
University Degree

University degree programs in STS (Science and Technology Studies) represent a popular training ground for scholars and other professions dealing with advanced studies in science and technology. Degree programs in STS are currently offered at universities around the globe with various specializations and orientations. This study explores the nature of science and technology in Canada and the state of ethics within STS curriculum in Canada. STS degree programs offered under various titles at nine universities in Canada are examined. Findings reveal that ethical aspects of science and technology study is lacking from the core content of most Canadian academic programs in STS. Key challenges are addressed and suggestions are made on how to leverage STS programs within Canadian universities. This study advances the understanding of the developing field of STS in Canada from a technoethical perspective.

Dis/Abling Spaces of Calculation: Blindness and Money in Everyday Life

10.1068/d4173 ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 594-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Schillmeier
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Social Understanding ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Visually Disabled ◽  
Empirical Material

In this paper I attempt to explore how ‘ordinary acts’ of dealing with money and with money technologies fabricate enabling and disabling—dis/abling—spaces of calculation. Rather than referring to money merely as a general symbolic medium of exchange, I highlight the materiality and the sensory practices involved in handling money and shaping the practice of sociality. Drawing on empirical material, I explicate some of the ways in which everyday practices with money are distinctively important for visually disabled people. Combining sociological and social philosophical thoughts with insights from science and technology studies, I rethink the social understanding of money and disability. I explore how (visual) dis/ability is situated in everyday practices and suggest that it can be understood neither as an individual bodily impairment nor as a socially attributed disability. Both money and blindness become visible as complex sets of calculate practices, linking bodies, material objects, and technologies with sensory practices. These practices, I conclude, draw attention to the heterogeneous fabrication of sociality and to the emerging dis/abling spaces of calculation that unfold in the course of everyday life.

scholarly journals (The domestication of) Nordic domestication?

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maren Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Alternative Interpretation ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
High Uptake ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Future State

AbstractThe domestication concept, originally developed in Britain in the context of media appropriation in households’ everyday life, has seen a relatively high uptake in the Nordic countries from early on. This was by far not only an application of the concept, but an alternative interpretation with different emphases. I introduce two major strands of this uptake in this article: the Norwegian science and technology studies interpretation, and the primarily Finnish consumer and design research interpretation. These case studies will help answer the question of the degree of Nordicness in these interpretations of the domestication approach. In a last instance, the article aims to address the question what the current – and hopefully future – state of domestication research in the Nordic countries could look like.

(Self-)Confidence, Migration, and the State: A Study of Emigration from Latvia

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Iveta Ķešāne ◽  
L. Frank Weyher
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
The State ◽  
The West ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Civil Discourse ◽  
Policies And Practices

How do Latvian emigrants’ emotional apprehensions of social and cultural change in post-Soviet Latvia, and the contrasting experience they gain abroad, affect their relationship with the Latvian state and their ongoing emigration status? By contrasting the personal narratives of 59 emigrants with the Latvian state’s public transformation discourse, we argue that the culture the sending state presents to its public—both in its official discourse and day-to-day interactions with civilians—and the emotions this triggers in people based on their everyday life experiences, deepens our understanding of the post-Soviet emigration regime. Specifically, how state discourse and interactions affect feelings of recognition and the related emotions of confidence (particularly, self-confidence), pride, and shame are important for understanding post-Soviet emigration. Exaggerated neoliberal notions of the “West” dominated both the post-Soviet civil discourse and the policies and practices implemented to guide the transition, fashioning an environment where people felt shamed, and their self-confidence was injured. However, emigration and growing confidence in receiving states helped many regain a sense of comfort, self-confidence, and empowerment.

scholarly journals Design Strategy for State Islamic Universities (PTKIN) Towards Science and Technology Development In Indonesia

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-142
Author(s):  
Abdul Fattah
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Design Strategy ◽  
The State ◽  
The West ◽  
Muslim Scholar ◽  
Global Science ◽  
Muslim Intellectuals

One of the issues most discussed in the arena of contemporary Muslim thought in the last few decades is about Islam and science. Muslim intellectuals provide diverse responses to these issues, particularly associated with the character of modern science and technology. Some people regard science and technology as something neutral and universal. While others assess the science and technology is not neutral, depending on its creator. Therefore, Muslims must be careful with science and technology from the West. Noteworthy together is a contemporary Muslim scholar realized that the only way to drink in the glory (golden age) of Muslims is through the mastery of science and technology. In terms of locality Indonesia, the expectations of many lay on the State Islamic Universities (UIN, IAIN, and STAIN), especially in the framework of the integration between Islam and science and to eliminate the dichotomy of science that has made Muslims excluded from the global science and technology arena.

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