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From Radical Science to STS by Peter J. Taylor; Karin Patzke is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is From Radical Science to STS about?
Many people who went on to become scholars and writers about technoscience in its social context, that is, to become contributors to the field now called Science and Technology Studies (STS), were involved in or influenced by counter-cultural and radical activities from the late 1960s, '70s and '80s. This Science as Culture forum consists of responses to a call to make sense of the biographical (or autobiographical) changes of such radical scientists and critical commentators on technoscience. Or to make sense of ways that subsequent STS academics have been influenced by that earlier generation and by the 'proliferation' since 'of new institutions of deliberation, participation, activism, enterprise, and social movement mobilization' (Moore et al., 2011, p. 505). These biographies of technoscience in this social context reveal the relationships, instruments and outcomes of power struggles as the scholars and writers have contributed the field of STS. We hope that making these biographies public may reveal previously hidden connections, similar to other work that seeks to reveal the interaction between the academic discipline and activism (Quet and Noel, 2014;Sang-yong, 2017). The e
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- Author
- Peter J. Taylor; Karin Patzke
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences