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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. To display the information, choose the author. Core Literature of WTMC Introductions and handbooks General introductions 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