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Biotechnologizace: legitimita, materialita a možnosti odporu
The book follows the controversy over the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture. I look at the production and use of scientific expert knowledges and other knowledges and at the processes of globalization and localization, or political geography, as enacted in the case of GMOs. I also follow and analyse the processes whereby the legitimacy of agricultural GMOs is constructed or subverted and the strategies for the de/materialization of GMOs. I show that representations in the regimes of s…
Topics: European Union, Legitimacy, Politics and Political Attitudes, Sociology of Sciences
Nebezpečné známosti. O vztahu sociálních věd a společnosti
This book is about different forms of societal impact of the social sciences. It presents a polemic with a narrow understanding of societal impact of research as practiced by science policy in the Czech Republic (and elsewhere). Three basic theses are proposed and argued. 1. Social sciences’ operation in society is multiple and more significant than usually assumed in public and policy debate, and by the academic community. It entails not only intentional and controlled but also unintentional and collateral …
Topics: Sociology of Sciences
Závěrem: Napříč sociálněvědní a přírodovědnou institucí
It is a concluding chapter of the book which compares the social science and natural science institutions under study regarding four themes: the degree and modes of competitiveness, publication infrastructure and strategies, epistemic texture of the institutions and enactment of gender.…
Topics: Gender, Sociology of Sciences
Politická a morální ekonomie vědy
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 deployed in the current transforming Czech science and analyses power strategies enacted through specific definition of the modes and shifting between them.…
Topics: Economy, Politics and Political Attitudes, Sociology of Sciences, Transformation
Uvedení k výzkumu: 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, Research Methodology, Transformation
Akademické poznávání, vykazování a podnikání. Etnografie měnící se české vědy
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 transformations of everyday research practices, career paths, science policies and their effects, usage and reshaping in research institutions in social and natural sciences. The concluding chapter offers their comparison.…
Topics: Sociology of Sciences
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