Sociology and Political Science in the Czech Republic in the Transition Period

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Authors: Mansfeldová, Zdenka
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Making Pure Science and Pure Politics: On the Expertise of Bypass and the Bypass of Expertise

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Authors: Stöckelová, Tereza, Konopásek, Zdeněk, Zamykalová, Lenka
This article is based on a case study of a long-term public controversy over the construction of a highway bypass (around Plzen,Czech Republic). Two principal variants of the bypass were proposed. One of them began gradually to appear preferable, increasingly attractive for exper...
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Science Policy and STS from Other Epistemic Places

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Authors: Stöckelová, Tereza, Garforth, Lisa
Recently there have been pleas for STS to make a difference in how science policies are constructed and enacted. Much less remarked upon is the possibility that there may be troubling alignments between science studies and researc...
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Social technology transfer? Movement of social science knowledge beyond the academy

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Authors: Stöckelová, Tereza
Technology has become a key vehicle and index of the societal impact of science. Technology’s dominant image, both in science and technology studies (STS) and in science policies, is one of a material device or a complex procedure using machines with ori...
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Academic duets: On the professional and private life in science

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Authors: Vohlídalová, Marta (ed.)
The publication brings fifteen portraits of couples where both partners work in science, research or teach at a higher education institutions. Interviews focused on couples from different academic disciplines and in different life stages. They included young Ph.D. students with c...
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What matters to women in science? Gender, power and bureaucracy

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Authors: Linková, Marcela, Červinková, Alice
Building on Law’s modes of mattering (2004), the authors explore enactments of ‘women and science’ in various locations where gender and feminist approaches, science policies and support activities meet in European context. By exploring some of th...
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Konference Beyond the Leaky Pipeline: Future Challenges for Research on Gender and Science

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Authors: Linková, Marcela, Tenglerová, Hana
The paper is a report on the conference Beyond the Leaky Pipeline: Challenges for Research on Gender and Science, the final conference to the project Meta-analysis of gender and science research, held in Brussels on 19 and 20 October 2010. It analyses the discoursive frameworks u...
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Science in society: Caring for our Futures in Turbulent Times

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Authors: Felt, U., D. Barben, A. Irwin, P.-B. Joly, A. Rip, A. Stirling, Tereza, Stöckelová
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Re-claiming a political voice: women and science in Central Europe

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Authors: Linková, Marcela, Mladenic, D, Oleksy, E, Palasik, M, Papp, E, Piscová, M, Velichová, D.
The monograph explores the issue of women in science in five countries of Central Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia). It embeds the issue of women in science in a historical perspective ...
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Sociology on the Czech Internet

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Authors: Rakušanová, Petra
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Meta-analysis of gender and science research. Country report Czech Republic

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Authors: Křížková, Alena
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Power at the Interfaces: The Contested Orderings of Academic Presents and Futures in a Social Science Department

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Authors: Stöckelová, Tereza
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Science in society: Caring for our Futures in Turbulent Times

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Authors: Felt, U., D. Barben, A. Irwin, P.-B. Joly, A. Rip, A. Stirling, T. Stöckelová
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Public accountability and the politicization of science: The peculiar journey of Czech research assessment

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Authors: Linková, Marcela, Stöckelová, Tereza
In recent decades, research has undergone major changes, resulting in radical shifts in patterns of governance. In this process, external forms of research assessment have developed as a proxy for researchers’ and research institutions’ accountability to society. In t...
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Immutable Mobiles Derailed: STS, Geopolitics, and Research Assessment

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Authors: Stöckelová, Tereza
Science policies and science studies largely share an understanding of scientific knowledge and objects as immutable mobiles. This article shows how the analysis of research assessment in a non-Anglophone country and its effects on social sciences can shed new light on this...
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Devices of difference: On the socio-material forms and effects of technologies in complementary and alternative medicine

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Authors: Klepal, J., T. Stöckelová
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Evidence-Based Alternative, ‘Slanted Eyes’ and Electric Circuits: Doing Chinese Medicine in the Post/Socialist Czech Republic

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Authors: Stöckelová, Tereza, Jaroslav Klepal
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Akademické poznávání, vykazování a podnikání. Etnografie měnící se české vědy

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Authors: Stöckelová, Tereza
The goal of the book is to contribute to current debates of the research and development transformation in the Czech Republic based on qualitative research and theoretical and conceptual approaches in STS and gender studies. The book offers a sociological reflection of the transf...
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Knowing and Living in Academic Research. Convergence and Heterogeneity in Research Cultures in the European Context

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Authors: Felt, Ulrike (ed.)
Ulrike Felt is professor of social studies of science since 1999 and head of Vienna STS department. After having finished her PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Vienna in 1983, she worked for nearly five years in an interdisciplinary research team of science historia...
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International Relations in the Czech Republic: Where Have All the Women Gone?

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Authors: Nyklová, Blanka, Cidlinská, Kateřina, Fárová, Nina
In this article, we strive to explore what are some of the causes of the scarcity of women researchers in Czech international relations in comparison to the representation of women students in the field. To answer this question, we analysed a set of semi-structured interviews wit...
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