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Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 9–45.
Published: 01 January 2012
... Science
Craig Calhoun
In spring 2011, several famous social scientists found
themselves caught up in unwelcome publicity. As fighting spread in Libya, atten-
tion focused on the trips Benjamin Barber, Anthony Giddens, Joseph Nye, Robert
Putnam, and several...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 201–208.
Published: 01 March 2013
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The Urban Condition:
A Challenge to Social Science
Ash Amin
That the human condition and the urban condition may
have become one and the same has not occasioned much critical reflection in
the social sciences. The analysis of the life...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 551–557.
Published: 01 September 2013
... in the biosciences and the human sciences. Using the concept of “translation” to improve our understanding of value in science, they acknowledge two problems. First, the term translation is now, especially in biology, an “actor’s category.” Second, translation is capacious, perhaps too capacious in its promise...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 201–212.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., and in more empowered roles than in the past. This development offers an opportunity to develop more transparent, ethical, and effective models for collaborative urban research involving universities, local government, and citizen science networks. 2015 big data citizen science public management...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 279–288.
Published: 01 September 2023
... . 1987 . Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Merton Robert K. 1942 . “ A Note on Science and Democracy .” Journal of Legal and Political Sociology 1 : 115 – 26 . Nelson Alondra . 2011 . Body...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 355–365.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and occupational health issues and the scientific expertise in the field of the regulation of chemicals. Downstream of these regulatory processes, the use of science‐based regulatory instruments implicitly steers regulatory policies in a direction that results in tolerance of certain risks (rendering them...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 319–330.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Ryo Morimoto Abstract The article explores the tensions between the state, science, and the lived experience among the residents in the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear accident in Fukushima. The author proposes the analytics of the “surreal” to apprehend the incommensurable divide invisible radiation...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 449–485.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Beatrice Jauregui This article theorizes ongoing US-led global warfare as a “positive science” based in communal, familial, and humanistic values manifest in outreach practices conducted by the US Army. Analyzing the history of recruitment and recently developed resilience training and civil...
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in Making Citizens, Reassembling Devices: On Gender and the Development of Contemporary Public Sites of Repair in Northern California
> Public Culture
Published: 01 January 2014
Figure 1 Fixit Clinic at the Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley, California, on November 18, 2012. Photograph by Peter Mui
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in Modernist Infrastructure and the Vital Systems Security of Water: Singapore’s Pluripotent Climate Futures
> Public Culture
Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 3 Nowcasting provided by the Tropical Marine Science Institute. The radar image on the left shows Singapore in the regional context of the Malay Peninsula (north) and Indonesia’s Riau Islands (south). The right-hand image shows expected rainfall intensity in different parts of the city
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 221–243.
Published: 01 May 2018
...J. Aaron Simmons; Brandon Inabinet Michel Henry casts the objectivist tendencies in modern science as an existential threat to culture. Conservative distrust toward the public face of science and vulgar relativism toward the public face of the humanities heighten this indifference, this article...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 477–493.
Published: 01 September 2013
..., and the relation between science and images of science on heredity. Three images of science connected to heredity are discussed: the image of the gene as an isolated entity, the image of information, and the image of map and mapping. 2013 With this essay, I would like to share with you a few reflections...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 343–354.
Published: 01 September 2023
... debates about reliance on big data and algorithms to influence people's behavior. It is believed that behavioral science provides knowledge of stable regularities of behavior and of the cognitive processes that lead to them, and that policymakers/governments act upon this knowledge to change behavior...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 495–522.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Hannah Landecker Through examination of four examples from contemporary metabolic sciences, this article characterizes the rise of a postindustrial metabolism. Concerned with regulation, timing, and information, this emergent metabolism is analyzed as a shift away from the factory or motor model...
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 17 Obafemi Awolowo University (formerly the University of Ife), Faculty of the Social Sciences, contemporary view of the connecting bridges with the Faculty of Education in the background. Photograph by the author.
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 2 “The Young Man Restored to Life.” Engraved by Robert Pollard, after the painting by Robert Smirke (1787). Credit: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London.
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 1 “The Body of a Young Man Taken Out of the Water Apparently Dead in the Sight of the Distressed Parents.” Engraved by Robert Pollard, after the painting by Robert Smirke (1787). Credit: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London.
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in Making Citizens, Reassembling Devices: On Gender and the Development of Contemporary Public Sites of Repair in Northern California
> Public Culture
Published: 01 January 2014
Figure 4 Fixit Clinic coaches S. and C. collaboratively inspect a faulty switch on a compact disc player at a Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley, California, event on November 10, 2013. Photograph by Daniela K. Rosner
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 85–119.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Achille Mbembe In the rest of the world, the “postcolonial turn” in the social sciences and humanities took place nearly a quarter century ago. Since then, the method or style of critique associated with that movement has influenced myriad political, epistemological, institutional, and disciplinary...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 217–231.
Published: 01 January 2011
... layers of the postcolonial argument unfolding within a group of French scholars. At the heart of the postcolonial debate are the very definitions of the “social sciences” and “humanities” and the remapping of the knowledge they contain and produce. These repeated disjunctions among enunciative spaces...
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