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Being slightly polemical with consensualist thrust of the opening article and inspired by Roland Barthes and Carl Schmitt, they outline two moments of politicization. In the first moment, up to now self-evident and given realities are doubted, only to initiate, in the second moment, a dispute that is undecidable rationally and entails the recognition of legitimate enemies. At the close, a typology of various forms of depoliticization is proposed. …

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Theory has no Big Others in STS

I argue in this chapter that we do not need, in STS, to be concerned with losing theory (to descriptions and stories, fieldwork, practice or politics), rather recognizing different forms in which theory is and can be practiced. Along that line, we create a space to further decenter STS theory from masculinity, professional community and the (lab) natural science epistemic order. In all these cases, we should not strive toward simply developing a distinct theory for “other” areas that have fallen o…

Topics: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Úvodem: Problematizace vědy a genderu

The goal of this chapter is to introduce the basic methodological approaches used in the research (science and technology studies, gender studies), research methods and the basic parameters of the Czech R&D transformation and science policy. The chapter continues to introduce the research institutions in which the research was carried out, and the structure of the book. …

Topics: Gender, Social Policy, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Public accountability and the politicization of science: The peculiar journey of Czech research assessment

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 this paper we focus on the developments of research assessment in the Czech Republic. First, we trace the trajectory of accountability measures in the socio-historical contexts of post-socialist science as a tool of not only evaluating but also…

Topics: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

NGOs and the public: Understanding the lack of public mobilisation

Topics: Public Opinion

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

Polní pokusy s geneticky modifikovanými plodinami jako místa střetů výzkumu a veřejnosti

Topics: Value Orientations, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

Příroda v národním parku Šumava: Příroda nezačíná tam, kde končí lidská intervence

Topics: Value Orientations

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

Hrátky s čerty? Politické souvislosti a přesahy sociálně-vědního výzkumu

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Policy

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

Science Policy and STS from Other Epistemic Places

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 research policies in the form of shared conceptual, epistemological and methodological assumptions. Both have come to emphasise material outputsand visible activity, obscuring other processes, relationships and orderings involved in science work. This collection of papers …

Topics: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

Making Pure Science and Pure Politics: On the Expertise of Bypass and the Bypass of Expertise

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 experts, but remaining only on paper. In the meantime, however, the other variant became more realistic, pushed through mainly by local politicians and actually constructed. This article shows how purification of science frompolitics (…

Topics: Value Orientations, Politics and Political Attitudes, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

Beyond inclusion: effects and limits of institutionalised public participation

European institutions as well as member states have been recently promoting participatory procedures that are proclaimed to contribute to the legitimacy of political regimes and decision-making processes. Discussing three cases in the controversy over GMOs in the Czech Republic and France, this paper analyses participatory procedures as a power technique, and argues that they have a tendency to strengthen existing power and epistemic relationships. The paper goes on to focus on the initiative of Faucheurs volo…

Topics: European Union, Value Orientations, Civil Society

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

Immutable Mobiles Derailed: STS, Geopolitics, and Research Assessment

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 shared notion. The preference for immutable mobiles in assessment regimes pushes social scientists to publish in specialized, usually Anglophone journals, which can result in the attenuation of local relevance of the knowledge they produ…

Topics: Value Orientations, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

Social technology transfer? Movement of social science knowledge beyond the academy

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 origins in natural science disciplines. This article inquires into the vehicles and forms of societal impact in the case of the social sciences. It empirically looks into the generation and circulation of knowledge and expertise on Roma and, drawing upon S…

Topics: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Krásný nový reformní svět

Vyvlastňování světa

Nová česká ekopolitika: Příroda v područí průmyslu

Ropná katastrofa? Logický důsledek kapitalismu

Testosteron do vlády

Politika ve svěrací kazajce

Trhy jsou tvorové, co mají sentimenty

Nejistotu musíme sdílet společně (rozhovor)

Od roztržky ke sporu

Theory has no Big Others in STS

Úvodem: Problematizace vědy a genderu

Public accountability and the politicization of science: The peculiar journey of Czech research assessment

NGOs and the public: Understanding the lack of public mobilisation

Polní pokusy s geneticky modifikovanými plodinami jako místa střetů výzkumu a veřejnosti

Příroda v národním parku Šumava: Příroda nezačíná tam, kde končí lidská intervence

Hrátky s čerty? Politické souvislosti a přesahy sociálně-vědního výzkumu

Science Policy and STS from Other Epistemic Places

Making Pure Science and Pure Politics: On the Expertise of Bypass and the Bypass of Expertise

Beyond inclusion: effects and limits of institutionalised public participation

Immutable Mobiles Derailed: STS, Geopolitics, and Research Assessment

Social technology transfer? Movement of social science knowledge beyond the academy

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