States of Knowledge

The Co-Production of Science and the Social Order

Edited by Sheila Jasanoff

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• ISBN: 978-0-415-33361-0
• Binding: Hardback (also available in Paperback)
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 5th February 2004
• Pages: 336

About the Book

Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1. The Idiom of Co-production Sheila Jasanoff 2. Ordering Knowledge, Ordering Society Sheila Jasanoff 3. Climate Science and the Making of a Global Political Order Clark A. Miller 4. Co-producing CITES and the African Elephant Charis Thompson 5. Knowledge and Political Order in the European Environment Agency Claire Waterton and Brian Wynne 6. Plants, Power and Development: Founding the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, 1880-1914 William K. Storey 7. Mapping Systems and Moral Order: Constituting property in genome laboratories Stephen Hilgartner 8. Patients and Scientists in French Muscular Dystrophy Research Vololona Rabeharisoa and Michel Callon 9. Circumscribing Expertise: Membership categories in courtroom testimony Michael Lynch 10. The Science of Merit and the Merit of Science: Mental order and social order in early twentieth-century France and America John Carson 11. Mysteries of State, Mysteries of Nature: Authority, knowledge and expertise in the seventeenth century Peter Dear 12. Reconstructing Sociotechnical Order: Vannevar Bush and US science policy Michael Aaron Dennis 13. Science and the Political Imagination in Contemporary Democracies Yaron Ezrah 14. Afterword Sheila Jasanoff References Index

Reviews

'A must read for students of [science and technology studies] ... the book should also be read by anyone studying environmental politics ... and it should be of interst for wider audiences in political studies, culture, geography and sociology.' - Tim Forsyth, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics, UK

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements 1. The Idiom of Co-production 2. Ordering Knowledge, Ordering Society 3. Climate Science and the Making of a Global Political Order 4. Co-producing CITES and the African Elephant 5. Knowledge and Political Order in the European Environment Agency 6. Plants, Power and Development: Founding the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, 1880-1914 7. Mapping Systems and Moral Order: Constituting Property in Genome Laboratories 8. Patients and Scientists in French Muscular Dystrophy Research 9. Circumscribing Expertise: Membership Categories in Courtroom Testimony 10. The Science of Merit and the Merit of Science: Mental Order and Social Order in Early Twentieth-Century France and America 11. Mysteries of State, Mysteries of Nature: Authority, Knowledge and Expertise in the Seventeenth Century 12. Reconstructing Sociotechnical Order: Vannevar Bush and US Science Policy 13. Science and the Political Imagination in Contemporary Democracies 14. Afterword. References. Index

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