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Authors: Stöckelová, Tereza
The chapter deals with the moral and political economy of science while using the concept of "modes of ordering" developed by John Law. On the basis of an ethnographic research in a social scientific academic institution it discusses modes of ordering as they are deploy...
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Authors: Felt, Ulrike, Tereza Stöckelová
The chapter maps key modes of orderings and boundaries in current scientific practice in life sciences and social sciences, namely epistemic geography, disciplinarity, excellence, the relation between basic and applied research, modes of orderings within academic institutions, an...
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Authors: Cidlinská, Kateřina
Women researchers are underrepresented in almost all research fields. There are disciplinary differences in the phase in which they tend to quit their academic career; in the natural and technical sciences (STEM) it is in the postdoctoral phase, whereas in the social sciences and...
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Authors: Stöckelová, T., Senft, L. Kolářová, K.
Drawing upon ethnographic research on human living and producing with fungi, and Haraway’s theorization of sympoiesis and the model ecosystems of mycorrhizae developed in current mycological research, we offer a concept of sympoietic growth. Sympoiesis is a concept that suggests...
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Authors: Čada, Karel, Alice Červinková, Marcela Linková, Dana Řeháčková, Tereza Stöckelová
Based on expert interviews conducted in autumn 2004 we discuss in this publication processes which are currently shaping science and research – the emphasis on economic aspects of knowledge production and commercialization of research results; efforts to preserve the tradit...
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Authors: Vinopal, Jiří
The text summarizes the most important outputs of the public opinion survey aimed on the picture of science among Czech public conducted by Public Opinion Centre of Institute of Sociology of Czech Academy of Sciences in spring 2006. From the public point of view it addresses topi...
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Authors: Marcela Linková
How to assess quality has become one of the central concerns for contemporary research, not least because of the proliferation of research assessment systems around the globe. Concomitant with this has been the growing attention to factors that compromise the credibility of asses...
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Authors: Červinková, Alice
The paper is in a popularization way concerned with the problem of connection of family and work life in biographies of scientists. Based on examples from early-stage scientists lives it points to possible problems that arise at the beginning of a scientific career in relation to...
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Authors: Klepal, J., T. Stöckelová
Drawing on fieldwork in the postsocialist Czech Republic, we explore the transformative processes of biomedicalization, both within and in relation to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). We argue that it would be simplistic to understand evidence of these processes in C...
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Authors: Linková, Marcela
The chapter concentrates on how researchers in a natural science institution define success. It analyses differences in their notions of success depending on their position. The author argues that the normativity of excellence has an impact on which notion of success leads to vis...
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Authors: Garforth, Lisa, Alice Červinková
Chapter is concerned with times and timings at work in epistemic life-spaces. We divide our attention between trajectories and everyday time. The notion of trajectories draws attention to narrated time – the stories that collective and individual actors tell themselves abou...
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Authors: Dvořáčková, J., P. Pabian, S. Smith, T. Stöckelová, K. Šima, T. Virtová.
This publication is the result of a three-year, team-based, ethnographic study of academic and student life in Czech higher education. Five case studies were chosen to reflect a diversity of situations, including elite and peripheral positions, metropolitan and regional locations...
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Authors: Fox, Mary Frank, Whittington, Kjersten Bunker, Linková, Marcela
Gender hierarchies in the scientific workforce reflect and reinforce relations of status and power in societies. Concentrating on the United States and European Union, this chapter reveals deep and persistent gender disparities in participation by scientific field, and in perform...
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Authors: Cidlinská, Kateřina, Fárová, Nina, Maříková, Hana, Szénássy, Edit
Výzkumný projekt Analýza bariér a strategie podpory genderové rovnosti,jehož cílem je příprava komplexního návrhu opatření prosazování genderové rovnosti v oblasti vědy a výzkumu pro státní orgány a další klíčové aktéry vědních politik snárodní působností, se zaměřil na zevrubné...

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