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... This chapter explores the world of stem cell research, a high-stakes field of rapidly changing innovations that poses difficult technical and ethical challenges for developing immunology. The ethical debates over stem cell research in the United States, combined with historical strengths...

... In recent years, the European Commission (EC) has used various forms of public demonstrations, including technological demos, to manage its research and development programs. Based on sociological observations of one of these programs in the field of information technologies, this chapter shows...

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... The chapter reflects on how the book’s findings should change the goals of development, pushing researchers and practitioners to move beyond single-loop learning, focused on reforming projects, to double-loop learning, focused on questioning the underlying values, goals, and power structures...

... After completing the project grid in Module 9, exercises in this module are dedicated to showing how the grid can be used. In all previous modules, the sequential exercises achieved a particular goal in the project design process, such as developing a research description, figuring out...

... This chapter reflects on the implications of an agent-based approach for how we study and pursue development in the global south. It demonstrates that rather than viewing development as a northern intervention into the passive global south, we should instead see it as a set of relationships...

... What does social diversity entail for development? This chapter provides the conceptual and theoretical frameworks through which this question will be addressed in the book and provides an overview of the methodologies employed and the context for the collaborative research process...

... Dr. Snyderman saw the need for strategic planning to meet the opportunities and challenges posed by changes in the external environment. This resulted in the first formal planning process by any major entity in Duke University and the development of a Long Range Plan. The Plan included...

... This chapter makes a sustained theoretical argument as to why space and place matter in social movement research and how both concepts shape, enable, or otherwise constrain resistance practices. Drawing on Lefebvre’s work on space and Agnew’s threefold approach to place, it develops a “critical...

... During the years after the war, many anthropologists transformed elements of their wartime service into governmental research, policy, development, or intelligence work. The U.S. State and Defense Departments at times drew on anthropological expertise to implement foreign aid projects...

... After making connections among project and literature concepts (Module 3), this module engages a project’s multidimensionality by combining three to four key concepts. That is, the purpose of this module is to develop “concept combos,” which are creative innovations that demonstrate a project’s...

... areas and the various uses of a Boasian notion of culture and the assessment of intellectual capacity as a lever for developing a vision of a more independent Māori social development. Indigenous agency is a focus of this chapter, particularly in relation to the Māori politicians and scholars involved...

...Preface The concept of dual use science is introduced as instances in which unintended, negative applications of scientific research are realized and used; often these are relationships in which academic theoretical developments are transformed into commercial products or military...

... The final chapter evaluates the impacts of the dual use relationships, connecting anthropological research with Cold War military and intelligence projects, which impacted the development of American anthropology and a variety of governmental agencies and projects. Anthropology and intelligence...

... Known for its visibility across social media platforms, the ARMY fandom has created fan-led groups dedicated to everything from streaming parties and charting to language learning and research. Despite the diversity of ARMY groups, many share the common threads of drawing inspiration from BTS...

... This module represents the connecting zone of inquiry, which conjoins the project’s distinctive parts and materializes its major functions. By drawing on the concept map, disparate project concepts are clustered together into three to five broad processes. Process clusters are used to develop...