States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and the Social Order

by Jasanoff,Sheila

• ISBN13: 9780415333610
• ISBN10: 041533361X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In the past twenty years, the field of science and technology studies (S&TS) has made considerable progress toward illuminating the relationship between scientific knowledge and political power. These insights have not yet been synthesized or presented in a form that systematically highlights the connections between S&TS and other social sciences. This timely collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field attempts to fill that gap. The book develops the theme of "co-production", showing how scientific knowledge both embeds and is embedded in social identities, institutions, representations and discourses. Accordingly, the authors argue, ways of knowing the world are inseparably linked to the ways in which people seek to organize and control it. Through studies of emerging knowledges, research practices and political institutions, the authors demonstrate that the idiom of co-production importantly extends the vocabulary of the traditional social sciences, offering fresh analytic perspectiveson the nexus of science, power and culture.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	xi
1 The idiom of co-production	1	(12)
SHEILA JASANOFF
2 Ordering knowledge, ordering society	13	(33)
SHEILA JASANOFF
3 Climate science and the making of a global political order	46	(21)
CLARK A. MILLER
4 Co-producing CITES and the African elephant	67	(20)
CHARIS THOMPSON
5 Knowledge and political order in the European Environment Agency	87	(22)
CLAIRE WATERTON AND BRIAN WYNNE
6 Plants, power and development: founding the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, 1880-1914	109	(22)
WILLIAM K. STOREY
7 Mapping systems and moral order: constituting property in genome laboratories	131	(11)
STEPHEN HILGARTNER
8 Patients and scientists in French muscular dystrophy research	142	(19)
VOLOLONA RABEHARISOA AND MICHEL CALLON
9 Circumscribing expertise: membership categories in courtroom testimony	161	(20)
MICHAEL LYNCH
10 The science of merit and the merit of science: mental order and social order in early twentieth-century France and America	181	(25)
JOHN CARSON
11 Mysteries of state, mysteries of nature: authority, knowledge and expertise in the seventeenth century	206	(19)
PETER DEAR
12 Reconstructing sociotechnical order: Vannevar Bush and US science policy	225	(29)
MICHAEL AARON DENNIS
13 Science and the political imagination in contemporary democracies	254	(20)
YARON EZRAHI
14 Afterword	274	(9)
SHEILA JASANOFF
References	283	(24)
Index	307