Mangle in Practice Science, Society, and Becoming

Name: Mangle in Practice Science, Society, and Becoming
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ISBN: 9780822343516

ISBN-10: 0822343517

ISBN-13: 9780822343516

Edition: 2008

Authors: Andrew Pickering, Keith Guzik, Adrian Franklin, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub

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InThe Mangle of Practice(1995), the renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering argued for a re-conceptualization of research practice as a "mangle," an open-ended, evolutionary, and performative interplay of human and non-human agency. While Pickering's ideas originated in science and technology studies, this collection aims to extend the mangle's reach by exploring its application across a wide range of fields including history, philosophy, sociology, geography, environmental studies, literary theory, biophysics, and software engineering.The Mangle in Practiceopens with a fresh introduction to the mangle by Pickering. Several contributors then present empirical studies that…

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List price: $107.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 1/14/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.84" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Preface



New Ontologies




Studies


A Choreography of Fire: A Posthumanist Account of Australians and Eucalypts



Crate and Mangle: Questions of Agency in Confinement Livestock Facilities



Soul Collectors: A Meditation on Arresting Domestic Violence



Resisting and Accommodating Thomas Sargent: Putting Rational Expectations Economics through the Mangle of Practice



The Mangle of Practice and the Practice of Chinese Medicine: A Case Study from Nineteenth-Century China



Marup Church and the Politics of Hybridization: On Choice and Becoming




Reflexivity


Going with the Flow: Living the Mangle through Environmental Management Practice



A Manglish Way of Working: Agile Software Development



The Docile Body of the Scientist




Theory


The Mangle of Practice or the Empire of Signs: Toward a Dialogue between Science Studies and Soviet Semiotics



Ontological Dance: A Dialogue between Heidegger and Pickering



References


About the Contributors


Index