An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies, Second Edition reflects the latest
advances in the field while continuing to provide students with a road map to the complex …

Given the continuing popularity of actor-network theory and rising enthusiasm for synchronic
theories of globalisation in science and technology studies, it seems timely to return to the …

This introduction to the book The Capability Approach, Technology and Design consists of
five parts. After a very short general introduction, I will first briefly present the capability …

The crisis of Northern capitalism and failure of hegemonic global governance have created
a facilitative environment for post-hegemonic initiatives promoting South–South cooperation …

Whilst mainstream innovation literature assumes knowledge as an object, a new resource
for innovation, a practice-based approach to innovation, conceptualizes it in processual …

Since the turn of the millennium, the major development agencies have been promoting
“knowledge for development,”“ICT for development,” or the “knowledge economy” as new …

There is a certain 'failure'in what we could call the modern development of the STS field over
the past decade, ie a large number of studies—particularly empirical—that were deployed …

This book introduces the capability approach–in which wellbeing, agency and justice are the
core values–as a powerful normative lens to examine technology and its role in …

In a historical United Nations (UN) conference held in 2000, the leaders of 189 countries
agreed upon a set of eight major ambitious development goals (called the 'Millennium …

The global South, that is, the region outside the Western Europe, North America, and the
developed nations of Oceana and Asia, has been neglected by social scientists studying …