For anyone who would like to look at the presentation slides used by the presenters, they are now available in PDF format through the website. Click on one of the session links above, and click on the Presentation Slides link under the abstract you are interested in to view the slides.
Secularism and Science: A Few Good Readings
(Some focus on secularism, others on science; almost none focus on both.)
*Calhoun, Craig, Michael Warner, and Jonathan Van Antwerpen, Eds. 2007. Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Connolly, William. 2000. Why I Am Not a Secularist. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Harding, Sandra, Ed. 2011. The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader. Durham: Duke University Press.
Hollinger, David. 1996. Science, Jews, and Secular Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
*Jakobsen, J. R. and A. Pellegrini, ed. 2008. Secularisms. Durham: Duke University Press.
*Levey, G. B. and Tariq Modood, eds. 2009. Secularism, Religion, and Multicultural Citizenship. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Maffie, James. 2009. “In the end, we have the Gatling gun, and they have not: Future Prospects of Indigenous Knowledge.” Futures 41, 53-65.
Marks, Jonathan. 2007. “Intelligent Design and the Native’s Point of View (Assuming the Native is an Educated Eighteenth-Century European).” Darwin and the Bible: The Cultural Confrontation. Boston: Pearson Education.
*Mendieta, Eduardo, and Jonathan Vantantwerpen, eds. 2011. The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere. New York: Columbia University Press.
Sands, Kathleen. 2008. “Feminisms and Secularisms,” in Secularisms, ed. J. R. Jakobsen and A Pellegrini. Durham: Duke University Press.
*Selin, Helains. 2007. Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, 2nd ed. Dordrecht: Kluwer. (2000+ pp!)
Third World Network. 1993. “Modern Science in Crisis: A Third World Response,” in The ‘Racial’ Economy of Science, ed. S. Harding. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
*Watson-Verran, Helen and David Turnbull. 1995. “Science and Other Indigenous Knowledge Systems.” Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, ed. S. Jasanoff et al. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
*= good ones with which to start.
Who: KFM Panelists and Interested Others
What: Networking Night
When: 4pm – 6pm, Thursday, 3rd November, 2011
Venue Address: Pickwick & Frolic, 2035 E. 4th St. Cleveland, OH 44115
Venue Phone: 216-241-7425
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Happy Hour Menu
Walking Directions from Cleveland City Center Hotel (9 minutes)
We are really excited that the triple session that we have worked on has been accepted at the Society for the Social Studies of Science annual meeting in November 2011! We have a spectacular line-up of scholarly work. Please check the session pages (linked above) to see detailed information on our sessions, including abstracts.
Knowledge from the margins is of longstanding interest to the field of Science and Technology Studies. Modern technoscientific knowledge is typically understood to be produced for patent, profit, and/or its liberal virtues. The early focus on innovative knowledge resulted primarily in elite histories of Western (typically male and Caucasian) technologists and scientists going through the frustrations and satisfactions of life in laboratories. However, such studies begged the question, where does this knowledge go, what does it do, and for whom? Later STS scholars often explored this question from the point of view of those in ‘the margins’ who are: peripheral to modern knowledge production (e.g. civil society organizations, laypersons); ‘lacking’ modern knowledge production (e.g. non-Western, indigenous); or excluded from modern knowledge production (e.g. female, minority, disabled).
This triple session will demonstrate how a theoretical focus on knowledge from the margins resists typical ways of conceptualizing producers, users and innovation, and radicalizes thinking about institutional change. Part I will topically focus on ‘sciences from below’ and how they question assumptions about the knowledge production process that are common to Western societies. Part II will demonstrate how perturbing the user/producer boundary resists typical ways of thinking about the design and consumption of information and communications technologies. Part III will discuss how modern ideologies of technocracy and/or neoliberalism shape local knowledge and, conversely, allow for local knowledge to challenge expert regulation. STS and other scholars in women’s studies,geography, political sociology of science, and sociology of technology will be interested in this session.
Logan D. A. Williams, Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Xiaofeng “Denver” Tang, Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Toluwalogo “Tolu” B. Odumosu, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
Kevin R. Fodness, Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute