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New OnlineFirst (OA) editorial: "Current Canons and Canonical Currents" by the ST&HV editorial collective @tdneale.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @matthewkearnes.bsky.social @courtneyaddison.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Current Canons and Canonical Currents - Timothy Neale, Matthew Kearnes, Kari Lancaster, Courtney Addison, 2025
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September 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
More thinking about the canonical in STS! Which concepts would you add to this list?
Murphy, Michelle (2017), The economization of life. doi.org/10.1515/9780... (h/t @ajth.bsky.social)
September 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Murphy, Michelle (2017), The economization of life. doi.org/10.1515/9780... (h/t @ajth.bsky.social)
Latour, Bruno, and Steve Woolgar (1986), Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691028323/laboratory-life
September 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Latour, Bruno, and Steve Woolgar (1986), Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691028323/laboratory-life
Law, John (1987), On the Social Explanation of Technical Change: The Case of the Portuguese Maritime Expansion. Technology and Culture. https://doi.org/10.2307/3105566
September 4, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Law, John (1987), On the Social Explanation of Technical Change: The Case of the Portuguese Maritime Expansion. Technology and Culture. https://doi.org/10.2307/3105566
Latour, Bruno (2004), Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern. Critical Inquiry. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/421123
September 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Latour, Bruno (2004), Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern. Critical Inquiry. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/421123
Gieryn, Thomas (1983), Boundary-work and the demarcation of science from non-science: Strains and interests in professional ideologies of scientists. American Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.2307/2095325
September 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Gieryn, Thomas (1983), Boundary-work and the demarcation of science from non-science: Strains and interests in professional ideologies of scientists. American Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.2307/2095325
Pinch, Trevor, and Wiebe Bijker (1984), The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology might Benefit Each Other. Social Studies of Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/030631284014003004
August 29, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Pinch, Trevor, and Wiebe Bijker (1984), The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology might Benefit Each Other. Social Studies of Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/030631284014003004
Ong, Aihwa (1995), Making the biopolitical subject: Cambodian immigrants, refugee medicine and cultural citizenship in California. Social Science & Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(94)00230-Q
August 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Ong, Aihwa (1995), Making the biopolitical subject: Cambodian immigrants, refugee medicine and cultural citizenship in California. Social Science & Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(94)00230-Q
Edwards, Paul N. (2010), A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262518635/a-vast-machine/
August 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Edwards, Paul N. (2010), A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262518635/a-vast-machine/
Callon, Michel (1986), Some elements of a sociology of translation: Domestication of the scallops of St. Brieuc Bay. Power, Action and Belief: A New Sociology of Knowledge?. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.1984.tb00113.x
August 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Callon, Michel (1986), Some elements of a sociology of translation: Domestication of the scallops of St. Brieuc Bay. Power, Action and Belief: A New Sociology of Knowledge?. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.1984.tb00113.x
Mol, Annemarie and John Law (1994), Regions, networks and fluids: Anaemia and social topology. . Social Studies of Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/030631279402400402
August 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Mol, Annemarie and John Law (1994), Regions, networks and fluids: Anaemia and social topology. . Social Studies of Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/030631279402400402
Irwin, Alan (2006), The Politics of Talk: Coming to Terms with the ‘New’ Scientific Governance. Social Studies of Science. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306312706053350
August 18, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Irwin, Alan (2006), The Politics of Talk: Coming to Terms with the ‘New’ Scientific Governance. Social Studies of Science. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306312706053350
Callon, Michael (1994). Is science a public good? Science, Technology & Human Values.
In light of the passing of STS luminary Michel Callon, we have arranged for his landmark 1994 article "Is Science a Public Good?" to be available for free access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Is Science a Public Good? Fifth Mullins Lecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 23 March 1993 - Michel Callon, 1994
Should governments accept the principle of devoting a proportion of their resources to
funding basic research? From the standpoint of economics, science should ...
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August 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Callon, Michael (1994). Is science a public good? Science, Technology & Human Values.
Felt, Ulrike, and Maximillian Fochler (2010), Machineries for Making Publics: Inscribing and De-scribing Publics in Public Engagement. Minerva. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-010-9155-x
August 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Felt, Ulrike, and Maximillian Fochler (2010), Machineries for Making Publics: Inscribing and De-scribing Publics in Public Engagement. Minerva. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-010-9155-x
Law, John (2004), After method: Mess in social science research. https://archive.org/details/aftermethodmessi0000lawj (Paper suggested by @victortoom.bsky.social)
August 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Law, John (2004), After method: Mess in social science research. https://archive.org/details/aftermethodmessi0000lawj (Paper suggested by @victortoom.bsky.social)
Tsing, Anna (2015), The Mushroom at the End of th World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvc77bcc
August 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Tsing, Anna (2015), The Mushroom at the End of th World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvc77bcc
Verran, Helen (2002), A Postcolonial Moment in Science Studies: Alternative Firing Regimes of Environmental Scientists and Aboriginal Landowners. Social Studies of Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/030631270203200506
August 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Verran, Helen (2002), A Postcolonial Moment in Science Studies: Alternative Firing Regimes of Environmental Scientists and Aboriginal Landowners. Social Studies of Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/030631270203200506
Wynne, Brian (1996), May the Sheep Safely Graze? A Reflexive View of the Expert–Lay Knowledge Divide. Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446221983.n3
August 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Wynne, Brian (1996), May the Sheep Safely Graze? A Reflexive View of the Expert–Lay Knowledge Divide. Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446221983.n3
Haraway, Donna (1988), Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective. Feminist Studies. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3178066
August 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Haraway, Donna (1988), Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective. Feminist Studies. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3178066
Martin, Emily (2001), The woman in the body: A cultural analysis of reproduction. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/205988/the-woman-in-the-body-by-emily-martin/
August 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Martin, Emily (2001), The woman in the body: A cultural analysis of reproduction. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/205988/the-woman-in-the-body-by-emily-martin/
Callon, Michel (1998), An essay on framing and overflowing: economic externalities revisited by sociology. The Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.1998.tb03477.x
August 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Callon, Michel (1998), An essay on framing and overflowing: economic externalities revisited by sociology. The Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.1998.tb03477.x
Jasanoff, Sheila (2004), States of Knowledge: the Co-Production of Science and the Social Order. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203413845
August 4, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Jasanoff, Sheila (2004), States of Knowledge: the Co-Production of Science and the Social Order. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203413845
Bowker, Geoffrey, and Susan Leigh Star (1999), Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/6352.001.0001
July 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Bowker, Geoffrey, and Susan Leigh Star (1999), Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/6352.001.0001
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July 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Callon, Michel and Bruno Latour (1981), Unscrewing the Big Leviathan: How actors macrostructure reality and how sociologists help them to do so. Advances in Social Theory and Methodology: Toward an Integration of Micro and Macro-Sociologies.
July 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Callon, Michel and Bruno Latour (1981), Unscrewing the Big Leviathan: How actors macrostructure reality and how sociologists help them to do so. Advances in Social Theory and Methodology: Toward an Integration of Micro and Macro-Sociologies.