Overview
- Reinvigorates the concept of scientific community
- Delineates ongoing changes across a range of epistemic cultures
- Elaborates on social, cultural and political aspects of contemporary technoscience
- Traces historical influences on technoscience, including in the European context
- Provides new thinking on scientific identity formation
Part of the book series: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook (SOSC, volume 31)
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This open access edited book provides new thinking on scientific identity formation. It thoroughly interrogates the concepts of community and identity, including both historical and contemporaneous analyses of several scientific fields. Chapters examine whether, and how, today’s scientific identities and communities are subject to fundamental changes, reacting to tangible shifts in research funding as well as more intangible transformations in our society’s understanding and expectations of technoscience. In so doing, this book reinvigorates the concept of scientific community.
Readers will discover empirical analyses of newly emerging fields such as synthetic biology, systems biology and nanotechnology, and accounts of the evolution of theoretical conceptions of scientific identity and community. With inspiring examples of technoscientific identity work and community constellations, along with thought-provoking hypotheses and discussion, the work has a broad appeal. Those involved in science governance will benefit particularly from this book, and it has much to offer those in scholarly fields including sociology of science, science studies, philosophy of science and history of science, as well as teachers of science and scientists themselves.
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Keywords
- Open Access
- Community in the Technosciences
- Communities of Practice
- Contemporary Technosciences
- Emergence of Technoscience
- Epistemic Cultures
- Engineering Laboratory Communities
- Funding Regimes
- Scientific Community
- Scientific Identity
- Science Governance
- Synthetic Biology
- Shaping of Technoscience
- Steering European research
- Science in Public
- Science Communication
- Technoscience and Society
- Transdisciplinary Research
Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Synthetic Communities
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Troubled Identities
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Karen Kastenhofer holds a PhD in biology and has been working in the field of social studies of science for two decades. She specializes in the reconstruction of epistemic cultures, the convergence of science and technology within the newly emerging technosciences and socio-political ramifications thereof. For the past ten years she has been tracing the emergence of systems biology as a potentially new epistemic culture and community in various national contexts. She is currently based at the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Technology Assessment and teaches at the University of Vienna.
Susan Molyneux-Hodgson FRSA is a Professor of Sociology at University of Exeter and currently the Associate Dean for Research. She has been working in the field of social studies of science for over twenty years and specialises in the sociological analysis of scientific knowledge production, science-society relations and interdisciplinary research. For thepast ten years she has been tracing the emergence of synthetic biology as a potentially new field of scientific practice. She has begun to study the work of nuclear-oriented research communities, such as materials science and radioecology. Her research projects have been supported by multiple UK Research Councils, the EU and by industry.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences
Editors: Karen Kastenhofer, Susan Molyneux-Hodgson
Series Title: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61728-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61727-1Published: 23 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61730-1Published: 04 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-61728-8Published: 22 March 2021
Series ISSN: 0167-2320
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1796
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 315
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Science, Science and Technology Studies, Cultural Theory, Science Education, Governance and Government