Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences / edited by Karen Kastenhofer, Susan Molyneux-Hodgson

This open access edited book provides new thinking on scientific identity formation. It thoroughly interrogates the concepts of community and identity, including both historical and contemporaneous analyses of several scientific fields. Chapters examine whether, and how, today’s scientific identitie...

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Place / Publishing House:Cham : Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer, 2021
Year of Publication:2021
Edition:1st ed. 2021
Language:English
Series:Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 31
Classification:30.02 - Philosophie und Theorie der Naturwissenschaften
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Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 315 Seiten); 14 Illustrationen, 10 Illustrationen
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Re-considering Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences (Susan Molyneux-Hodgson & Karen Kastenhofer)
  • Part 1. The Emergence of What? The Case of Synthetic Biology
  • Chapter 2. What Synthetic Biology Aims At: Review Articles as Sites for Constructing and Narrating a Field (Clemens Blümel)
  • Chapter 3. Rethinking Concepts of Community in the Technosciences: The Case of Synthetic Biology (Alexander Degelsegger-Márquez)
  • Chapter 4. Taking the Field of Emergence: Emergence of Technoscientific Fields and the New Political Sociology of Science (Benjamin Raimbault & Pierre-Benoit Joly)
  • Chapter 5. Diversity Within. Biographical Talk and (Inter)disciplinary Identities in a Contemporary British University (Cuevas-Garcia, Carlos A.)
  • Part 2. The Impact of a New Innovation Regime on Scientific Community
  • Chapter 6. Shaping of Technosciences by Funding Regimes from the Scientists’ Perspective: The Case of Systems Medicine (Imme Petersen & Regine Kollek)
  • Chapter 7. A Tale of Two Scientific Communities: Self-Organisation and Steering in European Research (Inga Ulnicane-Ozolina)
  • Chapter 8. “Big Interdisciplinarity”: Unsettling Excellence (Bettina Bock von Wülfingen)
  • Chapter 9. The Project-ed Community: Day-to-Day Excellence Within an Interdisciplinary Project on Microbial Bioenergy (Beatrice Cointe)
  • Part 3. Performing Identity Under Technoscientific Conditions
  • Chapter 10. Remaining Central and Interdisciplinary. Conditions for Success of a Research Speciality at the University (Marianne Noel)
  • Chapter 11. Being a ‘Good Researcher’ in Transdisciplinary Research - Identity Work Beyond Community? (Andrea Schikowitz)
  • Chapter 12. Mistaken Identities of Experts and Novices: How Undergraduate Students Contribute to Engineering Laboratory Communities (Caitlin Donahue Wylie)
  • Chapter 13. Performing Science in Public: Science Communication and Scientific Identity
  • Chapter 14. Discussion: Community and Identity Under Technoscientific Conditions: Empirical Insights