Syllabus/achievement requirements

Please note: All articles are available online unless marked with "compendium" or "handout"/"fronter". The compendium can be bought at the Akademika bookstore on Blindern Campus. Handouts will be distributed in class or via Fronter.

 

Allen, John and Stephanie Lavau, ‘Just-in-Time’ Disease: Biosecurity, poultry and power, Journal of Cultural Economy, (Nov. 2013)

Asdal, Kristin, Enacting values from the sea. On innovation devices, value practices, and the co-modifications of markets and bodies in aquaculture, in Dussauge, Helgesson and Lee (eds) Value practices in the Life Sciences, Oxford University Press, (2015) (compendium)

Asdal, Kristin, From climate issue to oil issue: Offices of public administration, versions of economics and the ordinary technologies of politics. Environment and planning A 46 (9): 2110-2124. (2014)

Asdal, Kristin, The office: The weakness of numbers and the production of non-authority; Accounting, Organizations and Society, Volume 36, Issue 1, Pages 1-9 (January 2011)

Asdal, Druglitrø, Hinchliffe 2017. Humans, animals and biopolitics: The more-than-human condition. Routledge. (handouts in lecture)

Bauer, Susanne (2014). From Administrative Infrastructure to Biomedical Resource: Danish Population Registries, the 'Scandinavian Laboratory', and the 'Epidemiologist’s Dream'. Science in Context 27(2), 187- 213

Beck, Silke, Moving beyond the linear model of expertise? IPCC and the test of adaptation. Regional Environmental Change, 11(2), 297-306. (2011)

Beck, Silke, & Mahony, Martin. The IPCC and the politics of anticipation. Nature Climate Change, 7(5), 311-313. (2017).

Brandtzæg, Petter Bae, Social Networking Sites: Their Users and Social Implications- A Longitudinal Study, in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol. 17, Issue 4, pp-467-488, (2012)

Carlsen, H., Klein, R. J., & Wikman-Svahn, P. Transparent scenario development. Nature Climate Change, 7, 613. (2017).

Carusi, Annamaria, Aud Sissel Hoel, Timothy Webmoor & Steve Woolgar (eds). Introduction, Visualization in the Age of Computerisation, Routledge, pp. 1-15 (2014)

Cooper, Melinda, Introduction and Chapter One: Life Beyond the Limits. University of Washington Press (2008) (compendium)

Dewey, John, The public and its problems. Ohio University Press, pp. 3-37, (1991 [1954] In Fronter

Duhigg, Charles, How Companies Learn Your Secrets, The New York Times (February 16, 2012)

Druglitrø, Tone. “Skilled Care” and the Making of Good Science. Science, Technology and Human Values, OnlineFirst Jan 5, 2017: https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243916688093

Foucault, Michel, 1 February 1978 in M. Foucault, Security, Territory, Population, Lectures at the College de France (1977-1978) (2004) (compendium)

Hermansen, Erlend, Policy Window Entrepreneurship: The backstage of the World’s Largest REDD Initiative (2015) (compendium)

Hine, Christine (2006) Databases as scientific instruments and their role in the ordering of scientific work. Social Studies of Science 36 (2), pp. 269-298.

Horowitz, Roger, Making the Chicken of Tomorrow: Reworking Poultry as Commodities and as Creatures, 1945-1990, in (eds.) Schrepfer and Scranton, Industrializing Organisms. Introducing Evolutionary History, New York and London: Routledge (2004) (compendium)

Hulme, Mike, Reducing the Future to Climate: a Story of Climate Determinism and ReductionismOsiris 26(1), pp. 245-266 (2011)

Hulme, Mike and Mahony, Martin, Climate Change: What do we know about the IPCC? in Progress in Physical Geography 34(5), pp. 705-718 (2010)

Lahn, Bård, & Sundqvist, Göran. Science as a “fixed point”? Quantification and boundary objects in international climate politics. Environmental Science & Policy, 67, 8-15. (2017).

Law, John, Care and Killing: Tensions in Veterinary Practice, in (eds.) Pols, Mol and Moser, Care in Practice: Tinkering in Clinics, Homes and Farms (2011)

Lemke, Thomas, The birth of bio-politics': Michel Foucault's lecture at the Collège de France on neo-liberal governmentality. Economy and society, 30(2): 190-207 (2001)

Leonelli, Sabine, Brian Rappert, Gail Davies: Data Shadows: Knowledge, Openness, and Absence. Science, Technology, & Human Values 42 (2), 191 – 202 (2017).

Lezaun, Javier, A market of opinions: the political epistemology of focus groups, The Sociological Review, Special Issue: Sociological Review Monograph Series: Market Devices, edited by Fabian Muniesa, Yuval Millo and Michel Callon, Volume 55, Issue Supplement s2, pp. 130–151 (October 2007)

Lippmann, Walter: Public opinion, Free Press Paperbacks. Simon and Schuster, pp. 161-175 (1997 [1947) (compendium)

MacKenzie, Donald. Making things the same: Gases, emission rights and the politics of carbon markets. Accounting, Organizations and Society 34 (2009) 440-455.

McCormick, Kes and Niina Kautto. The Bioeconomy in Europe: An Overview Sustainability 2013, 5(6), 2589-2608; doi:10.3390/su5062589

Marres, Noortje, The Issues Deserve More Credit; Pragmatic Contributions to the Study of Public Involvement in Controversy, in Social Studies of Science, 37,5, pp. 759-780 (2007)

Marres, Noortjw & Carolin Gerlitz, Interface Methods: Renegotiating relations between digital research STS and Sociology, CSISP,  Working Paper Nr. 3, (2015)

Morita, Atsuro, Anders Blok, Shihei Kimura, Environmental Infrastructures of Emergency. The Formation of a Civic Radiation Monitoring Map during the Fukushima Disaster. In: Hindmarsh, (comp.) Richard, Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi: Social, Political and Environmental Issues. London: Routledge, 78-96 (2013) (compendium)

Miele, Mara, The taste of happiness; free-range chicken. Environment and Planning A, pp. 2076-2090 (2001)

Moser, Ingunn, Thygesen, Hilde, Exploring possibilities in telecare for ageing societies, forthcoming in Barnes, Marian (et al.) 'Renewing Care: critical international perspectives on the ethics of care (2015) Cut from the reading list.

Muniesa, Fabian, A flank movement in the understanding of valuationThe Sociological ReviewVolume 59, Issue Supplement s2, (June 2012)

Muniesa, Fabian, Yuval Millo and Michel Callon, An introduction to market devices The Sociological Review Volume 55, Issue Supplement (2007)

Oreskes, Naomi, Beyond the Ivory Tower: The Scientific Consensus on climate change. Science 306 (5702), 1686 (2004)

Pearce, W., Grundmann, R., Hulme, M., Raman, S., Hadley Kershaw, E., & Tsouvalis, J. (2017). Beyond counting climate consensus. Environmental Communication, 11(6), 723-730. (2017).

Pols, J, Care at a distance. On the Closeness of Technology, chapters 3 The heart of the Matter: Good nursing at a distance and chapter 8 Innovating care innovation pp. 45-62 and 135-152, Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP (2012) (compendium)

Porter, TM, Quantification and the accounting ideal in science. Social Studies of Science 22(4): 633-52 (1992)

Rose, Nikolas, The Politics of Life itself, Theory, Culture and Society, 18:6, 1-30 (2001)

Ruppert, Evelyn, John Law, Mike Savage, Reassembling the Social Science Methods: The Challenge of Digital Devices in Theory Culture and Society, 30 (4)pp. 22-46 (2013)

Schwarzkopf, Stefan and Gries, Rainer: Ernest Dichter, Motivation Research and the ‘Century of the Consumer’ in Ernest Dichter and Motivation Research. New Perspectives on the Making of Post-war Consumer Culture in Stefan Schwarzkopf and Rainer Gries, Palgrave Macmillan (2010) (compendium)

Squier, Susan Merrill, Poultry Science, Chicken Culture. A Partial Alphabet. Rutgers University Press, (Introduction). Pp. 1-18 (2011) (compendium)

Singleton, Vicky, When Contexts Meet: Feminism and Accountability in UK Cattle Farming, in Science, Technology and Human Values, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 404-433 (2012)

Sundqvist, Göran, Bohlin, Ingemar, Hermansen, Erlend and Yearley Steven, Formalisation and Separation: A Systematic Basis for Interpreting Approaches to Summarising Science for Climate Policy”(2015)

Star, Susan Leigh, Ethnography of Infrastructure, American Behavioral Scientist 43: 377-391. (1999)

Storsul, Tanja, Deliberation or Self-presentation. Young People, Politics and Social Media, in Nordicom Review 35, 2014, pp. 17-28 (2014)

Thygesen, Hilde, Moser, Ingunn, Technology and Good Dementia Care: An Argument for an Ethics-in-Practice Approach, pp.129-148, in Schillmeyer, M., Domenech, M. (eds.) New Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care, Farnham, UK: Ashgate (2010) (compendium)

Thompson, Charis, Good Science” Chapter 2 in Good Science. The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research. MIT (2013)(compendium)

Viseu, Ana & Suchman, Lucy. Wearable Augmentations. In J. Edwards, P. Harvey & P. Wade, (Eds.), Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies, pp. 161-184, Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books (2010) (compendium)

Willems, Dick, Varieties of goodness in high-tech home care, in Mol, A., Moser, I., Pols, J. (eds.) Care in Practice. On tinkering in Clinics, Homes and Farms, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, pp. 257- 276 (2010) (compendium)

Yearley, Steven, Sociology and Climate Change after Kyoto: What Roles for Social Science in Understanding Climate Change? In Current Sociology (2009)

Ziewitz, Malte: Governing Algorithms: Myth, Mess, and Methods. Science, Technology, & Human Values 41 (1) 3 – 16 8 (2016).

 

Reference literature:

European Commission, Innovating for Sustainable Growth: A Bioeconomy for Europe. Brussels (2012)

Fourcade, Marion, Cents and Sensibility: Economic Valuation and the Nature of “Nature” Source: American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 116, No. 6, pp. 1721-77 (May 2011)

Fourcade, Marion,  Price and Prejudice: On Economics and the Enchantment (and Disenchantment) of Nature, in Jens Beckert & Patrik Aspers (eds), The Worth of Goods, Valuation & Pricing in the Economy, Oxford University Press (2011) (compendium)

TIK/ESST Master thesis: Einar Jakobsen: Den moderne kyllingen.

TIK/ESST Master thesis: Anina Sætre Bjørnhaug: Å skape en mulig omsorgsteknologi : en studie av møte mellom sporingsteknologi og et nytt bruksområde

 

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