Core Literature of WTMC
Core Literature of WTMC
2018 edition INTRODUCTION Core Literature of WTMC
The Dutch national research school WTMC seeks to The second list, of introductions, is in particular useful for analyse, understand and explain the manifold and intricate new entrants in the field. The classics, of course, are also relationships between science, technology and modern informative, but may require more background knowledge. culture. This, of course, is an interdisciplinary effort that The introductions provide an overview of the main draws from and contributes to various research traditions, perspectives, methods and findings of the research field of each with their own literatures. In this overview we list the WTMC. core literature of the research school WTMC. The third category, the research clusters, proposes more The aim of this list is threefold: specific literature for the many lines of research in WTMC. • it provides an introduction to the intellectual and academic Within each of the clusters some key references are aspirations of WTMC; suggested to orient the researcher interested in these more • it helps PhD students to locate their studies within a broader specific areas of study. These references may also be used set of literatures; in the programs of the PhD workshops, depending on the • it supports the ongoing reflection of research agendas topic. Together, the research clusters are a demonstration of within WTMC. the richness and excitement of the research school WTMC.
The list of core literature is organised into four categories: The overview ends with a list of journals that are important classics, introductions, research clusters, and journals. The for the research school WTMC. Some cover the full breadth first, the classics, is a list of books that operate as a landmark of science and technology studies, others have a more in the broad, yet distinguished field of WTMC research. These specific profile or topic. Browsing through these journals will scholarly works have introduced a new perspective that provide an excellnet overview of the wealth of topics and has been proved to be useful - and they still inspire today’s approaches in this field of study. researchers. Their contribution to the field is uncontested, although their factual claims may have been challenged, This list should not be seen as demarcation of what is ‘in’ as it should. The classics are systematically introduced and and ‘out’ of the field or the research school, but rather as an discussed in the WTMC PhD workshops. imperfect collection of imperfect gems. CLASSICS Core Literature of WTMC
CLASSICS These books, organised alphabethically, are considered reference points for wider debates in science ad technology studies.
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The Handbooks of STS
Felt, U., R. Fouché, Hackett, E., O. Jasanoff, Sheila, The three editions of the Handbook are C.A. Miller & L. Smith- Amsterdamska, M. Gerald E. Markle, collections of review articles, covering the Doerr (Eds.) Lynch, J. Wajcman eds. James C. Petersen, development of theory and research in areas prominent at the time they were written. They 2016 2007 and Trevor Pinch, eds. are a collective effort of the STS field. Older 1995 handbooks are still very much relevant for their The Handbook New Handbook of treatment of specific topics. Several chapters of Science and Science, Technology, Handbook of Science Technology Studies, and Society and Technology of the handbooks have now become classic Fourth Edition Studies references in their own right. However, they are probably too specialised for a first exploration Cambridge, MA: of the field. MIT Press Cambridge: MIT Press London: Sage
General first introductions to the field of STS and some of its debates:
Bauchspies, W. K., Sismondo, S. Croissant, J., & Restivo, S.
2006 2004
Science, technology, An Introduction and society: a to Science and sociological approach Technology Studies
Malden, MA: Blackwell London: Blackwell Publishing Publishers Core Literature of WTMC Introductions and handbooks General introductions
Introductions into science studies specifically (the “W” of WTMC):
Biagioli, M. Barnes, Barry, David Bucchi, M. Bloor and John Henry
1999 1996 2004
The science studies Scientific Knowledge. Science in Society: reader A Sociological An Introduction to the Analysis Sociology of Science
New York and London: London: Routledge Routledge The Athlone Press
Hagendijk, Rob Hess, David J. Yearley, S.
1996 1997 2005
Wetenschap, Science Studies. Making Sense Constructivisme en An Advanced of Science: Cultuur Introduction Understanding Amsterdam: the Social Study of Universiteit van Science Amsterdam New York: New York (in Dutch) University Press London: Sage Core Literature of WTMC Introductions and handbooks General introductions
Introductions into technology studies (the “T” of WTMC):
Bijker, Wiebe and Collins, Harry and MacKenzie, Donald and John Law Pinch, Trevor Judy Wajcman (Eds.)
1992 1998 1999 / 1985
Shaping Technology The Golem at The Social Shaping of / Building Society: Large: What You Technology Studies in Should Know about Sociotechnical Change Technology
Cambridge, MA: Cambridge: Cambridge McGraw Hill Education MIT Press University Press (second ed.)
Introductions into sci/tech and modern culture (the “MC” of WTMC):
During, S., (ed.) Misa, Thomas, Philip Latour, Bruno Sorensen, Knut H. and Brey & Andrew Robin Williams (Eds.) Feenberg (eds) 1993 2003 2005 2002
The Cultural Studies Modernity and Reassembling the Shaping Technology, Reader Technology Social: an Introduction Guiding Policy: to Actor-Network- Concepts, Spaces and Theory Tools
London and New York: Cambridge, MA: Oxford: Clarendon Cheltenham, UK: Routledge MIT Press Edward Elgar Core Literature of WTMC Research clusters Cluster-specific key literature We think the various perspectives and themes within WTMC can be clustered into about 20 categories. See table. We also indicate the relative weight of the focus on Science (W), Technology (T) and/or Modern Culture (MC). Core Literature of WTMC Research cluster some key references
Sociology of science
Pickering, Andrew (ed.) Whitley, Richard Bowker, G., & Star, S. L. Lynch, M.
1992 1985 1999 1997
Science as Practice The Intellectual and Sorting things out: Scientific Practice and Culture Social Organization of Classification and its and Ordinary Action: the Sciences consequences Ethnomethodology and Social Studies of Science
Chicago: University of Oxford: Oxford Cambridge, Mass.: Chicago: Chicago Chicago Press University Press MIT Press University Press
Technology studies
MacKenzie, Wacjman Callon, M. Bijker, W.E.
1985/1999 1986 1995
The Social Shaping The sociology of an Of Bicycles, of Technology actor-network: The case Bakelites and Bulbs: of the electric vehicle Towards a theory in Callon, Law and Rip of sociotechnical (eds.) change Mapping the dynamics of Buckingham: Science and Technology, Cambridge: MIT Press Open University Press pp. 77-102 Core Literature of WTMC Research cluster some key references
Philosophy of science
Gillies, Donald John Dupré Pickering, Andrew Barad, Karen Hacking, Ian
1993 2003 1995 2007 1990
Philosophy of Science Human Nature and The mangle of Meeting the Universe The Taming of in the Twentieth the Limits of Science practice time, Halfway: Quantum Chance Century: Four Central agency, and science Physics and the Themes Entanglement of Matter and Meaning Chicago, Illinois: Durham, North Oxford: Blackwell Clarendon Press, Oxford University of Chicago Carolina: Duke Cambridge: Press University Press Cambridge UP
Philosophy of technology
Val Dusek Frederick Ferré Mitcham, Carl Harbers, H. (Ed.) Peter Kroes
2006 1995 1994 2005 2012 Inside the Politics of Philosophy of Philosophy Of Thinking through Technology: Agency Technical Artefacts: Technology: An Technology Technology: The and Normativity in Creations of Mind Introduction Path between the Co-Production and Matter: A Engineering and of Technology and Philosophy of Philosophy Society Engineering Design Amsterdam: University of Georgia Chicago: University of Amsterdam University Blackwell Pub Press Chicago Press Press Springer Core Literature of WTMC Research cluster some key references
History of science
Shapin, Steven, and Porter, T. Daston, Lorraine & Pickstone, John V. Jardine, N., Secord, J. A., Simon Schaffer Galison, Peter & Spary, E. C. (Eds.) 1985 1995 2007 2007 1996
Leviathan and the Trust in numbers: Objectivity Working knowledges Cultures of Natural Air-Pump The pursuit of before and after circa History objectivity in science 1800: practices and and public life disciplines in the history of science, technology, and Princeton: University Princeton University New York: Zone Books medicine Cambridge: Cambridge Press Press ISIS, 98(3), 489-516 University Press
History of technology
Merrit Roe Smith & Leo Edgerton, D. Oldenziel, R., & Hård, M. Mokyr, J. Marx (eds.) 1994 2007 2013 2005 / 2002
Does Technology The Shock of the Old: Consumers, Tinkerers, The Gifts of Athena: Drive History? Technology and Global Rebels: The People Historical Origins The Dilemma of History Since 1900 Who Shaped Europe of the Knowledge Technological Economy Determinism
Cambridge MA.: MIT Oxford: Oxford London: Palgrave Princeton: Princeton Press University Press McMillan University Press Core Literature of WTMC Research cluster some key references
Questioning modernity
Haraway, D.J. Latour, Bruno Misa, Brey & Feenberg Anne Fausto-Sterling Evelyn Fox Keller (eds) 1991 1993 2003 2012 2010 We have never been Simians, cyborgs, modern transl. by Modernity & Sex/Gender: Biology The Mirage of a and women: the Catherine Porter Technology in a Social World Space between reinvention of nature New York [etc.] : Harvester Nature and Nurture Wheatsheaf, cop. Vert. van: Nous n’avons jamais été modernes. London : Free Cambridge, MA: MIT Routledge Duke University Press - Paris : La Decouverte, Association Books Press 1991
Innovation studies
Garud, Raghu, and Utterback, J. M. Coombs, R., Green, K., Grin, G., Rotmans, J., Van de Ven, A., Polly, Peter Karnøe (eds.) Richards, A., & Walsh, V. Schot, J. D.E, Venkataraman, S., 2001 1996 2001 2012 Garud, R. 1999 Path Dependence Mastering the Technology and the Transitions to and Creation dynamics of Market. sustainable The Innovation innovation Demand, Users and development. New Journey Innovation directions in the study of long term Mahwah , N.J.: Boston, Massachusetts: transformative change Lawrence Erlbaum Harvard Business School Cheltenham, UK: Associates Press Edward Elgar Routledge Oxford University Press Core Literature of WTMC Research cluster some key references
Ethnography of science and technology
Collins, Harry M. Knorr Cetina, Karin Hine, C. Hutchins, E. Atkinson, P., Coffey, A. & Fortun, K. Delamont, S. 1985 1999 2000 1995 2001 2003
Changing order: Epistemic Cultures. Virtual Etnography Cognition in the wild Ethnography and Ethnography in/of/as Replication and How the Sciences the development Open Systems induction in scientific Make Knowledge of science and practice technology studies In Atkinson, P., Coffey, A. & Delamont, S. Handbook of London: Sage Cambridge: Harvard London: Sage Cambridge: MIT Press ethnography (pp. 234-245) Reviews of Anthropology University Press Sage 32(2), 171–90
Risk and uncertainty
Ulrich Beck Maarten Hajer Jasanoff, S. Lahsen, M. Walker, W. E., Harremoes, P., Rotmans, J., van der 1992 1995 2005 2005 Sluijs, P., van Asselt, M. B. A., Janssen, P., et al. Risk Society: Towards The Politics of Designs on Nature: Seductive 2003 a new Modernity Environmental Science and simulations? Defining Uncertainty Discourse: Ecological Democracy in Europe Uncertainty - A Conceptual Basis modernization and the and the United distribution around for Uncertainty policy process States climate models Management in Model- Based Decision Support London: Sage Oxford: Clarendon Press Princeton: Princeton Social Studies of Integrated Assessment, University Press Science, 35(6), 895-922 4(1), 5-17 Core Literature of WTMC Research cluster some key references
Knowledge society
Gibbons et al. Beck, Giddens, Lash Castells Nowotny, H., Scott, P., Stehr, Nico & Gibbons, M. 1994 1994 1996 / 2000 2001 1994
The new production Reflexive The Rise of the Rethinking science: Knowledge Societies of knowledge: the Modernisation: Network Society knowledge and the dynamics of science Politics, tradition, (The information public in an age of and research in and esthetics in the Age, vol. 1) uncertainty contemporary modern social order societies London, etc.: Sage Cambridge: Polity Press Cambridge: Blackwell Cambridge: Polity Sage Publications Publishers Press
Gross, M. Strathern, M.
2010 2004
Ignorance and Surprise: Commons + Borderlands: Science, Society, and Working Papers on Ecological Design Interdisciplinarity, Accountability and the Flow of Knowledge
Cambridge, MA: Wantage, Oxfordshire: MIT Press Sean Kingston Publishing Core Literature of WTMC Research cluster some key references
Ethics of science and technology
Keulartz, J., M.Schermer, Mitcham, Carl, R Christian Munthe Peter-Paul Verbeek Wendell, Wallach & Colin, M.Korthals, T.Swierstra Shannon Duval Allen (Eds.) 1999 2011 2011 2010 2002 Engineering Ethics The Ethics of Moralizing Moral Machines: Pragmatist Ethics for a Screening in Health Technology: Teaching Robots Right Technological Culture Care and Medicine: Understanding from Wrong Serving Society Or and Designing the Serving the Patient Morality of Things
Deventer: Kluwer Prentice Hall. Upper Springer Chicago University Oxford University Press Academic Publishers Saddle River, New Jersey Press
Cultural studies
During, S., (ed.) José van Dijck Stuart Hall Mieke Bal DuGay, P., S. Hall, L. Janes, H. MacKay & K. Negus 1993 2013 1997 2002 1996
The Cultural Studies The Culture of Representation: Travelling Concepts Doing Cultural Studies Reader Connectivity: A Cultural in the Humanities: A – The Story of the Sony Critical History of Representations and Rough Guide Walkman Social Media Signifying Practices
London and New York: Oxford University Press Sage Toronto: University of London, Sage Routhledge Toronto Press Publications Core Literature of WTMC Research cluster some key references
Governance of science and technology
Sclove, R. David Held Whitley, R., Glaeser, J. Smits, Ruud; Strathern, Marilyn (ed.) (Ed.) & Engwall, L. (Ed.) Kuhlmann, Stefan; 1995 1995 2010 Shapira, Philip 2000 2010 Democracy and Democracy and the Reconfiguring Audit Cultures: Technology Global Order Knowledge Production: The Theory Anthropological Changing Authority and Practice of Studies in Relationships in the Innovation Policy Accountability, Ethics, Sciences and Their and the Academy Consequences for New York: Guilford Press Cambridge: Polity Press Intellectual Innovation Cheltenham, Routledge Oxford University Press Edward Elgar
Public understanding of science and technology
Nelkin D. Wynne, B. (S. Lash, B. Alan Irwin & Mike Bauer, M. W., Allum, N., Szerszynski & B. Wynne ed.) Michael & Miller, S. 1995 1996 2003 2007 May the Sheep Safely Selling Science. Graze? A Reflexive Science, social theory What can we learn how the press View of the Expert-Lay & public knowledge from 25 years of PUS covers science and Knowledge Devide survey research? technology Risk, Environment & Liberating and Modernity: Towards a expanding the agenda New Ecology Freeman Press London, etc.: Sage Milton Keynes: Open Public Understanding Publications, 44-83 University Press of Science, 16(1), 79-95 Core Literature of WTMC Research cluster some key references
Technology assessment and participatory approaches
Rip, A., T. Misa & J. Van Est, R., and F. Brom Rip, Arie, and Douglas K. Schot R. Robinson 1995 2012 2013 Technology Constructive Managing Technology Assessment, Analytic Technology Assessment in Society and Democratic and the Methodology Practice of Insertion. Early Encyclopedia of Applied Engagement and New Ethics (II Ed.), Ruth Technologies: Opening Chadwick ed., 306-320 Up the Laboratory, N. London: Pinter San Diego: Academic Doorn ed., 37-53 Press Dordrecht: Springer
User studies
Oudshoorn, N., & Lie, M. & K Sorensen Von Hippel Pinch, T. 2003 1996 1994
How Users Matter: Making technology The sources of The Co-construction our own, innovation of Users and domesticating Technology technology into everyday life
Cambridge: MIT Press Oslo: Scandinavian Oxford University Press University Press Core Literature of WTMC Research cluster some key references
Scenarios and expectations
Brown, N., Rappert, B., Borup, Mads, Nik Brown, Adam, Barbara, and Jasanoff, Sheila, and & Webster, A. Kornelia Konrad, and Chris Groves Sang-Hyun Kim, eds. 2000 Harro Van Lente 2007 2015 2006 Contested Futures Future Matters: Dreamscapes - a sociology of The Sociology of Action, Knowledge, of Modernity. prospective techno- Expectations in Science Ethics Sociotechnical science and Technology Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power Technology Analysis and Aldershot Strategic Management Leiden: Brill Chicago: University of 18:285-298 Chicago
Sociology of health and the body
Mol, A. Stefan Timmermans Charis Thompson Rachel Prentice Margaret Lock & Judit Blume, Stuart and Marc Berg Faquhar 2002 2003 2005 2013 2007 1992
The Body Multiple: The Gold Standard: Making Parents: Bodies in Formation. Beyond the body Insight and Industry. Ontology In Medical The Challenge of The Ontological An Ethnography proper. Reading the On the Dynamics Practice Evidence-Based Choreography of Anatamoy and anthropology of of Technological Medicine and of Reproductive Surgery Education material life Change in Medicine Standardization in Technologies Health Care Durham, NC: Duke MIT Press Durham: Duke Durham: Duke Cambridge MA: University Press University Press University Press MIT Press Core Literature of WTMC Research cluster some key references
Nature, space and environment
P Macnaughten, J Urry Sarah Whatmore Peter Peters Scott, J. C. Flyvbjerg, B.
1998 2002 2006 1998 1998
Contested Natures Hybrid Geographies: Time Innovation and Seeing like a state : Rationality and Natures Cultures Mobilities how certain schemes power: democracy Spaces to improve the and practice human condition have failed
Thousand Oaks, CA: London: Sage London: Routledge New Haven, Conn.: Chicago: University of Sage Yale University Press Chicago Press
Science, technology and development
Marianne de Laet and Sheila Jasanoff Sandra Harding Annemarie Mol 2000 2002 2011
The Zimbabwe Bush New Modernities: The Postcolonial Pump: Mechanics of a Reimagining Science, Science and Fluid Technology Technology and Technology Studies Development Reader
Social Studies of Science Environmental Values Durham, N.C./London: 30/2: 225-263 11: 253–76 Duke University Press Some important WTMC Journals Core Literature of WTMC
WTMC scholars tend to write and read in the following journals. The list is far from complete, but these are some of prominent forums for the field or its specific clusters.
• Social Studies of Science • Science, Technology and Human Values • Science as Culture • Research Policy • Scientometrics • Technology and Culture • Krisis (Dutch/English) • Economy and Society • Sociology of Health and Illness • Public Understanding of Science • Technological Forecasting and Social Change • Futures • Science and Public Policy • Theory, Culture and Society • Genetics and Society • Technology Analysis & Strategic Management • Isis • Minerva • Science Studies • History of Science