The Local Configuration Of New Research Fields

Author : Martina Merz,Philippe Sormani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319226835

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The Local Configuration of New Research Fields by Martina Merz,Philippe Sormani Pdf

This new Yearbook addresses the question of how policy, place, and organization are made to matter for a new research field to emerge. Bringing together leading historians, sociologists, and organizational researchers on science and technology, the volume answers this question by offering in-depth case studies and comparative perspectives on multiple research fields in their nascent stage, including molecular biology and materials science, nanotechnology, and synthetic biology. The Yearbook brings to bear the lessons of constructivist ethnography and the “practice turn” in Science and Technology Studies (STS) more broadly on the qualitative, comparative, and critical inquiry of new research fields. In doing so, it offers unprecedented insights into the complex interplay of national research policies, regional clusters, particular research institutions, and novel research practices in and for any emerging field of (techno-)science. It systematically investigates national and regional differences, including the variable mobilization of such differences, and probes them for organizational topicality and policy relevance.

Author : Pablo Kreimer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429561153

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Science and Society in Latin America by Pablo Kreimer Pdf

In the form of a sociological pilgrimage, this book approaches some topics essential to understanding the role of science in Latin America, juxtaposing several approaches and exploring three main lines: First, the production and use of knowledge in these countries, viewed from a historical and sociological point of view; second, the reciprocal construction of scientific and public problems, presented through significant cases such as Latin American Chagas Disease; and third, the past and present asymmetries affecting the relationships between centers and peripheries in scientific research. These topics show the paradox of being at the same time "modern" and "peripheral."

Author : Eden Medina,Ivan da Costa Marques,Christina Holmes
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262526203

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Beyond Imported Magic by Eden Medina,Ivan da Costa Marques,Christina Holmes Pdf

Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South. The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the global North to the global South—the view of technology as “imported magic.” They describe not only alternate pathways for innovation, invention, and discovery but also how ideas and technologies circulate in Latin American contexts and transnationally. The contributors' explorations of these issues, and their examination of specific Latin American experiences with science and technology, offer a broader, more nuanced understanding of how science, technology, politics, and power interact in the past and present. The essays in this book use methods from history and the social sciences to investigate forms of local creation and use of technologies; the circulation of ideas, people, and artifacts in local and global networks; and hybrid technologies and forms of knowledge production. They address such topics as the work of female forensic geneticists in Colombia; the pioneering Argentinean use of fingerprinting technology in the late nineteenth century; the design, use, and meaning of the XO Laptops created and distributed by the One Laptop per Child Program; and the development of nuclear energy in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile. Contributors Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Morgan G. Ames, Javiera Barandiarán, João Biehl, Anita Say Chan, Amy Cox Hall, Henrique Cukierman, Ana Delgado, Rafael Dias, Adriana Díaz del Castillo H., Mariano Fressoli, Jonathan Hagood, Christina Holmes, Matthieu Hubert, Noela Invernizzi, Michael Lemon, Ivan da Costa Marques, Gisela Mateos, Eden Medina, María Fernanda Olarte Sierra, Hugo Palmarola, Tania Pérez-Bustos, Julia Rodriguez, Israel Rodríguez-Giralt, Edna Suárez Díaz, Hernán Thomas, Manuel Tironi, Dominique Vinck

Author : R. Cavallo,S. Komossa,N. Marzot
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781614993667

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New Urban Configurations by R. Cavallo,S. Komossa,N. Marzot Pdf

Urban areas have been caught up in a turbulent process of transformation over the past 50 years and changes have been rapid, with issues such as mobility, nature, water management, energy use and public space featuring prominently._x000D_ In each Olympic year since 1988, the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology has held an international conference focusing on the connection between research and design, exploring the field of tension between science, technology and art._x000D_ This book presents the proceedings of the latest in this series of conferences: New Urban Configurations, held in Delft, the Netherlands, in October 2012 in collaboration with the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE) and the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF). This edition of the conference discussed the role and critical potential of the architectural project in the transformation process of cities and territories that leads to new urban configurations._x000D_ The publication contains all 140 accepted papers and a selection of the keynote lectures presented at the conference. The papers have been grouped into five main themes: innovation in building typology; infrastructure and the city; complex urban projects; green spaces, and delta urbanism. Four of these major topics are further divided into several subtopics._x000D_ This book will be of interest to everyone involved in designing, building, thinking about as well as managing the urban landscape and territory.

Author : Elke Schuessler,Patrick Cohendet,Silviya Svejenova
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839828744

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Organizing Creativity in the Innovation Journey by Elke Schuessler,Patrick Cohendet,Silviya Svejenova Pdf

This volume brings together empirical and conceptual papers that go beyond questions of idea generation to account for the dynamics of idea development, judgement, and dissemination – processes which are at the heart of organizing for innovation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : MINN:30000002989352

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Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Division of Plans and Reports
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : UOM:39015027849051

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Atomic Energy Research by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Division of Plans and Reports Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Power resources
ISBN : MINN:30000006337103

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Energy Research Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher Rootes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317968719

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Acting Locally by Christopher Rootes Pdf

Local campaigns are the most persistent and ubiquitous forms of environmental contention. National and transnational mobilisations come and go and the attention they receive from mass media ebbs and flows, but local campaigns persist. The persistence or re-emergence of local campaigns is also a reminder that it remain possible to mobilise people around environmental issues, and they have often served as sources of innovation in and re-invigoration of national organisations that have allegedly been co-opted by the powerful and incorporated into the established political and administrative system. But local environmental campaigns have been relatively neglected in the scientific literature. Drawing on examples from Britain, France, Greece, Ireland and Italy, this book seeks to redress that neglect by examining the networks among actors and organisations that connect local mobilizations to the larger environmental movement and political systems, the ways in which local disputes are framed in order to connect with national and global issues, and the persistent impacts of the peculiarities of place upon environmental campaigns. This book was previously published as a special issue of Environmental Politics

Author : Terence Wesley-Smith,Jon Goss
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824833213

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Remaking Area Studies by Terence Wesley-Smith,Jon Goss Pdf

This collection identifies the challenges facing area studies as an organized intellectual project in this era of globalization, focusing in particular on conceptual issues and implications for pedagogical practice in Asia and the Pacific. The crisis in area studies is widely acknowledged; various prescriptions for solutions have been forthcoming, but few have also pursued practical applications of critical ideas for both teachers and students. Remaking Area Studies not only makes the case for more culturally sensitive and empowering forms of area studies, but indicates how these ideas can be translated into effective student-centered learning practices through the establishment of interactive regional learning communities. This pathbreaking work features original contributions from leading theorists of globalization and critics of area studies as practiced in the U.S. Essays in the first part of the book problematize the accepted categories of traditional area-making practices. Taken together, they provide an alternative conceptual framework for area studies that informs the subsequent contributions on pedagogical practices. To incorporate critical perspectives from the "areas studied," chapters examine the development of area studies programs in Japan and the Pacific Islands. Not surprisingly, given the lessons learned from critical examinations of area studies in the U.S., there are competing, state, institutional, and intellectual perspectives involved in each of these contexts that need to be taken into account before embarking on an interactive and collaborative area studies across Pacific Asia. Finally, area studies practitioners reflect on their experiences developing and teaching interactive, web-based courses linking classrooms in six universities located in Hawai‘i, Singapore, the Philippines, Japan, New Zealand, and Fiji. These collaborative on-line teaching and learning initiatives were designed specifically to address some of the conceptual and theoretical concerns associated with the production and dissemination of contemporary area studies knowledge. Multiauthored chapters draw useful lessons for international collaborative learning in an era of globalization, both in terms of their successes and occasional failures. Uniquely combining theoretical, institutional, and practical perspectives across the Asia Pacific region, Remaking Area Studies contributes to a rethinking and reinvigorating of regional approaches to knowledge formation in higher education. Contributors: Conrado Balabat, Lonny Carlile, T. C. Chang, Hezekiah A. Concepcion, Arif Dirlik, Jeremy Eades, Gerard Finin, Jon Goss, Peter Hempenstall, Lily Kong, Lisa Law, Martin W. Lewis, Robert Nicole, Neil Smith, Teresia Teaiwa, Ricardo Trimillos, Christine Yano, Terence Wesley-Smith.

Author : Victor Isakov
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780470127452

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MCITP Administrator Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Optimization and Maintenance Study Guide by Victor Isakov Pdf

Covering Microsoft’s brand-new SQL 2005 administrator exam, this study guide walks you through setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting database solutions. You’ll review key topics such as defining high-availability solutions, automating administrative tasks, defining security solutions, monitoring and troubleshooting the database server, and designing and executing deployments. Plus, the CD-ROM features leading exam prep software with an assessment test, test engine of case study practice questions, and electronic flashcards.

Author : United States. Energy Research and Development Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:319510008694905

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ERDA Energy Research Abstracts by United States. Energy Research and Development Administration Pdf

Author : Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : OSU:32435067594309

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Review by Oak Ridge National Laboratory Pdf

Author : Nihon Gakushiin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biology
ISBN : UOM:39015060975730

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Proceedings of the Japan Academy by Nihon Gakushiin Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Policy sciences
ISBN : UCLA:L0061759502

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Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy by Anonim Pdf