Pickering / Guzik / Smith The Mangle in Practice

Science, Society, and Becoming
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9010-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Reihe: Science and Cultural Theory

An examination, by a diverse field of experts, of Pickering's mangle theory and its applicability (or lack thereof) beyond the limited cases he presented in the seminal book that introduced this theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pickering, Andrew

Guzik, Keith

Smith, Barbara Herrnstein

Weintraub, E. Roy

Weitere Mitwirkende

Franklin, Adrian

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface / Andrew Pickering vii

New Ontologies / Andrew Pickering 1

Part One: Studies

A Choreography of Fire: A Posthumanist Account of Australians and Eucalypts / Adrian Franklin 17

Crate and Mangle: Questions of Agency in Confinement Livestock Facilities / Dawn Coppin 46

Soul Collectors: A Meditation on Arresting Domestic Violence / Keith Guzik 67

Resisting and Accommodating Thomas Sargent: Putting Rational Expectations Economics through the Mangle of Practice / Esther-Mirjam Sent 92

The Mangle of Practice and the Practice of Chinese Medicine: A Case Study from Nineteenth-Century China / Volker Scheid 110

Marup Church and the Politics of Hybridization: On Choice and Becoming / Casper Bruun Jensen and Randi Markussen 129

Part Two: Reflexivity

Going with the Flow: Living the Mangle through Environmental Management Practice / Lisa Asplen 163

A Manglish Way of Working: Agile Software Development / Brian Marick 185

The Docile Body of the Scientist / Yiannis Koutalos 202

Part Three: Theory

The Mangle of Practice or the Empire of Signs: Toward a Dialogue between Science Studies and Soviet Semiotics / Maxim Waldstein 221

Ontological Dance: A Dialogue between Heidegger and Pickering / Carol J. Steiner 243

References 267

About the Contributors 293

Index 297

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Pickering is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Exeter. He is the author of The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science and Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics and the editor of Science as Practice and Culture.Keith Guzik is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bloomfield College in Bloomfield, New Jersey.