This paper reviews the significant sociocultural literatures on science studies, cultural
diversity, and sustainability science to develop theoretical perspectives for science …

Political ecology and science studies have found fertile meeting ground in environmental
studies. While the two distinct areas of inquiry approach the environment from different …

Naturalism as a guiding philosophy for modern science both disavows any appeal to the
supernatural or anything else transcendent to nature, and repudiates any philosophical or …

Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life examines the construction, manipulation and re-definition
of life in contemporary technoscientific culture. It takes a critical political view of the concept …

Science is a defining feature of the modern world, and popular science is where most of us
make sense of that fact. Understanding Popular Science provides a framework to help …

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automata or the creation of machines in (a certain) image of the human and human …

In this important collection, prominent scholars who helped to establish medical
anthropology as an area of study reflect on the field's past, present, and future. In doing so …

This chapter discusses the scaling and visualization of open-systems ethnography, drawing
out methodological rationales and challenges in interrelating multiple sites and levels of …

Since the year 2000, artists have increasingly employed tools, methods, and aesthetics
associated with scientific practice to produce forms of art that assert themselves as kinds of …

'Knowledge society'and 'knowledge economy'are current buzzwords in the visions of the
future made by nations, regions and federations on a global scale. A concrete outcome of …