Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences.

• Superior document: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook Series ; v.31
• Author: Kastenhofer, Karen.
• TeilnehmendeR: Molyneux-Hodgson, Susan.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 pages)

Table of Contents

Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Making Sense of Community and Identity in Twenty-First Century Technoscience -- 1.1 New Wine in Old Bottles? -- 1.2 Staged Communities, Manufactured Disciplines, and Strategic Identities -- 1.3 From Communality to Communities-The Socio-Cultural Organisation and Differentiation of Science -- 1.4 The Scientific Persona and Identity -- 1.5 Synthesising Communities: Processes of Qualitative Change, Heterogeneity, Theoretical Demarcation and Social Engineering -- 1.5.1 Processes of Qualitative Change -- 1.5.2 Heterogeneities -- 1.5.3 Theoretical Demarcations -- 1.5.4 The Social Engineering of Community -- 1.6 `Choreographing Identities:́ From Identity Trouble to Strategic Performance -- 1.6.1 Becoming and/or Performing? -- 1.6.2 Choreographing and Repairing Breaches of Canonical Narratives as Specific Kinds of Identity Work -- 1.6.3 The Affective Dimension -- 1.7 A Preliminary Conclusion -- References -- Part I: Synthetic Communities -- Chapter 2: Remaining Central and Interdisciplinary: Conditions for Success of a Research Speciality at the University of Stras... -- 2.1 Background and Context -- 2.1.1 Revisiting the Emergence of Research Specialties in Chemistry -- 2.1.2 The Role of Individual Scientists, Coherent Groups, Disciplines and New Disciplinarity -- 2.1.3 Approach, Methods and Structure of this Chapter -- 2.2 SMC, a Speciality `At the Borders Of ́-- 2.2.1 Concepts Characteristic of the Scientific Programme of SMC -- 2.2.2 A Three-Period Chronology -- 2.2.2.1 Period 1: The Emergence of the Supramolecular Chemistry Paradigm (1961-1978) -- 2.2.2.2 Period 2: The Emergence of a Specialty: From Supramolecular Chemistry to a Science of Supramolecular Systems (1979-199.

2.2.2.3 Period 3: Institutionalisation Processes (1998-2011)-Materialising Concepts -- 2.2.3 An Original Conceptual and Organisational `Heritage ́-- 2.2.3.1 A Polymorphic, Though Coherent and Organised Community, Attentive to Its Position -- 2.2.3.2 A Strong Local Rootedness with Great International Openness -- 2.2.4 The ISIS Building as a Mediator Between Epistemic Practices and Politics -- 2.3 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 3: What Synthetic Biology Aims At: Review Articles as Sites for Constructing and Narrating an Emerging Field -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Review Articles, Genre Analysis and the Study of Scientific Fields -- 3.3 Methods -- 3.4 Results -- 3.4.1 Reviews in the Field of Synthetic Biology -- 3.4.2 Results of the Content Analysis -- 3.4.2.1 Types of Reviews in the Corpus -- 3.4.2.2 `What Synthetic Biology Aims At:́ Strategies of Self-Characterisation -- 3.4.2.3 From Authoritative to Narrative Forms of Community-Building: Changes in Legitimating the Field -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Emergence of Technoscientific Fields and the New Political Sociology of Science -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Theoretical Framework-The Emergence of Technoscientific Fields Revisited -- 4.2.1 Emergence as a Multi-Scalar Process -- 4.2.2 Strategic Control of External Relations -- 4.3 Use of Advanced Scientometrics and Qualitative Methods -- 4.3.1 Delineation -- 4.3.2 Heterogeneity -- 4.3.3 Distribution of Scientific Capital -- 4.4 Mapping the Emergence of Synbio as a Technoscientific Field -- 4.4.1 Heterogeneity -- 4.4.2 Hierarchy -- 4.4.3 Autonomy -- 4.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Self-Organisation and Steering in International Research Collaborations -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Self-Organisation and Steering in International Research Collaborations -- 5.3 Research Methods and Data.

5.4 Self-Organisation and Steering in Two International Research Collaborations -- 5.4.1 Emergence -- 5.4.2 Formal and Informal Collaboration -- 5.5 Results -- 5.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: The Project-ed Community -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Project-ed Communities -- 6.3 The Project as Argumentative Device -- 6.4 The Project as Strategic Convergence -- 6.4.1 Bioenergy to Sell Basic Microbiology -- 6.4.2 Aix and Marseilleś Excellent Adventure -- 6.4.3 The Making of Microbio-E -- 6.5 The Project as Arena of Research -- 6.5.1 The Project as a Whole -- 6.5.2 A Patchwork of Subprojects -- 6.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: The Epistemic Importance of Novices: How Undergraduate Students Contribute to Engineering Laboratory Communities -- 7.1 The Roles of Novices in Communities -- 7.2 Methodology -- 7.3 Undergraduates ́Expertise -- 7.4 The Epistemic Value of Inexpertise -- 7.4.1 How Low-Stakes Learning Encourages Epistemic Exchange -- 7.4.2 Teaching as Community-Building -- 7.4.3 How Broad Education and Outsider Status Encourage Creativity -- 7.5 Conclusion: Epistemic Exchanges -- References -- Chapter 8: Tracing Technoscientific Collectives in Synthetic Biology: Interdisciplines and Communities of Knowledge Application -- 8.1 Introduction: Technoscientific Communities? -- 8.1.1 From Community to Scientific Community -- 8.1.2 Scientific Communities -- 8.1.3 Communities and Collaboration -- 8.1.4 Interdisciplinary Communities -- 8.2 Method -- 8.3 Synthetic Biology: To Be or Not To Be (a Community) -- 8.3.1 Community-Making -- 8.3.2 Community, Communities, Interdiscipline? -- 8.4 Challenges in Synthetic Biology Collaboration: Investigating Communities that Matter -- 8.4.1 Challenged Collaboration -- 8.4.2 Communities of Knowledge Application? -- 8.5 Conclusion -- References.

Chapter 9: Community by Template? Considering the Role of Templates for Enacting Membership in Digital Communities of Practice -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Theoretical Framework -- 9.2.1 Performing Community Through Travelling Practices -- 9.2.2 Performing Membership Through Accounting and Representing a Communityś Shared Practice(s) -- 9.3 Research Methodology and Methods -- 9.3.1 Empirical Site -- 9.3.2 Methodology -- 9.4 Analysis -- 9.4.1 Vignette 1: Translating and Disentangling Practices Through Templates -- 9.4.2 Vignette 2: Enacting Joint Practices through and with Templates -- 9.4.3 Configuring Templates, Performing Community (Membership) -- 9.4.4 Configuring Templates, Performing Exchange Relations -- 9.5 Conclusion: Community by Template? -- References -- Part II: Troubled Identities -- Chapter 10: Performing Science in Public: Science Communication and Scientific Identity -- 10.1 Identity as Performance -- 10.2 Science Communication Is Heterogeneous -- 10.3 Scientific Identities Are Multiple -- 10.4 Audiences Are Heterogeneous -- 10.5 Discussion -- References -- Chapter 11: Being a `Good Researcher ́in Transdisciplinary Research: Choreographies of Identity Work Beyond Community -- 11.1 Introduction-The Multiplication of Belongings in Research -- 11.2 State of the Field-Identity beyond Scientific Disciplines -- 11.3 Approaching Identity Work beyond Disciplines as `Choreography ́-- 11.4 Material and Methods -- 11.4.1 Case -- 11.4.2 Empirical Approach -- 11.4.3 Analytical Strategy and Presentation of Findings -- 11.5 Findings-Identity Work as Choreography -- 11.5.1 Being an `Explorer-́Undertaking Temporary Trips into Unknown Territory -- 11.5.2 Being a `Caring Broker-́Creating Ad-Hoc Social Bonds while Keeping Epistemic Independence -- 11.5.3 Being a `Moral Manager-́Heading for a `Greater Good.́

11.5.4 Being a `Polymath-́Integrating Encounters with Others into Oneś Own Life Story -- 11.6 Collective Ordering -- 11.6.1 Transgressing but Maintaining Boundaries through Trade -- 11.6.2 Establishing New Boundaries through Attempts at Building a Transdisciplinary Community -- 11.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 12: Constructing (Inter)Disciplinary Identities: Biographical Narrative and the Reproduction of Academic Selves and Co... -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 How Disciplines and Identity Interrelate -- 12.3 Methodology -- 12.3.1 Analytical Approach and Analytical Categories -- 12.3.2 Empirical Material -- 12.4 Analysis -- 12.4.1 Lawrence - Mathematics -- 12.4.2 Blanc - Computer Science and Bioinformatics -- 12.4.3 Lindsay - Economics -- 12.4.4 Julia - Archaeology -- 12.5 Discussion and Conclusion: Narrating Identities and Reproducing Disciplines -- References -- Chapter 13: `Big Interdisciplinarity:́ Unsettling and Resettling Excellence -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Communities, Identities, Interdisciplinarity, and Expertise -- 13.3 Context: The Excellence Initiative Funding Scheme -- 13.4 Communities and Identities within the Interdisciplinary Cluster Image Knowledge Gestaltung -- 13.4.1 The Interdisciplinary Composition of Image Knowledge Gestaltung -- 13.4.2 Unsettling (Inter)Disciplinarity -- 13.4.3 Resettling and Status -- 13.4.4 (Re)Settling at the Margins of Academia -- 13.4.5 Resettling in the Interdisciplinary Neighbourhood -- 13.4.6 Resettling in the Interactional Space -- 13.5 Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 14: A Passion for Science: Addressing the Role of Emotions in Identities of Biologists -- 14.1 Scientists and Their Profession: An Emotional Relationship -- 14.1.1 Passionate Tales -- 14.2 Narrating Passionate Tales -- 14.2.1 A Fascination with Science -- 14.2.2 Committing to Science.

14.2.3 Imagining a Future Generation of Scientists.