Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
About the Book Series
Books in this series consider social science aspects of science studies. Authors discuss how science is socially situated and mediated, how science and technology are shaped by society and society by science and technology. Books will consider the social impact of new technologies.
The Cultural Authority of Science: Comparing across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Bauer, Petra Pansegrau, Rajesh Shukla
February 25, 2020
The cultural authority of science is the authority that is granted to science in any particular context. This authority is as much a matter of image and perceived legitimacy as of statutory guarantee. However, while authority can be charismatic, based on tradition or based on competence, we would ...
Future Courses of Human Societies: Critical Reflections from the Natural and Social Sciences
1st Edition
Edited
By Kléber Ghimire
January 14, 2020
The future as a field of inquiry, debate or forecasts continues to flourish. However, this book differs from existing literature in several important ways. It is not another publication on future scenarios guided by a linear technological fix - nor is it simply a volume of new statistics on ...
Imagined Futures in Science, Technology and Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Gert Verschraegen, Frédéric Vandermoere, Luc Braeckmans, Barbara Segaert
December 12, 2019
Imagining, forecasting and predicting the future is an inextricable and increasingly important part of the present. States, organizations and individuals almost continuously have to make decisions about future actions, financial investments or technological innovation, without much knowledge of ...
Scientific Imperialism: Exploring the Boundaries of Interdisciplinarity
1st Edition
Edited
By Uskali Mäki, Adrian Walsh, Manuela Fernández Pinto
December 12, 2019
The growing body of research on interdisciplinarity has encouraged a more in depth analysis of the relations that hold among academic disciplines. In particular, the incursion of one scientific discipline into another discipline’s traditional domain, also known as scientific imperialism, has been a...
Adolescents and Their Social Media Narratives: A Digital Coming of Age
1st Edition
By Jill Walsh
December 10, 2019
Adolescents are forging a new path to self-development, taking advantage of the technology at their fingertips to produce desired results.In Adolescents and Their Social Media Narratives, Walsh specifically explores how social media impacts teenagers' personal development. Indeed, through...
Science, Risk, and Policy
1st Edition
By Andrew J. Knight
December 10, 2019
For decades, experts and the public have been at odds over the nature and magnitude of risks and how they should be mitigated through policy. Experts argue that the fears of the public are irrational, and that public policy should be based on sound science. The public, on the other hand, is ...
The Ethics of Ordinary Technology
1st Edition
By Michel Puech
January 24, 2018
Technology is even more than our world, our form of life, our civilization. Technology interacts with the world to change it. Philosophers need to seriously address the fluidity of a smartphone interface, the efficiency of a Dyson vacuum cleaner, or the familiar noise of an antique vacuum cleaner. ...
The Fukushima Effect: A New Geopolitical Terrain
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Hindmarsh, Rebecca Priestley
November 28, 2017
The Fukushima Effect offers a range of scholarly perspectives on the international effect of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown four years out from the disaster. Grounded in the field of science, technology and society (STS) studies, a leading cast of international scholars from the ...
Commodified Bodies: Organ Transplantation and the Organ Trade
1st Edition
By Oliver Decker
November 16, 2016
Commodified Bodies examines the social practice of organ transplantation and trafficking and scrutinises the increasingly neoliberal tendencies in the medical system. It analyses phenomena such as the denomination of human body parts as "raw materials" and "commodities," or the arguments used by ...
The Leisure Commons: A Spatial History of Web 2.0
1st Edition
By Payal Arora
August 19, 2016
There is much excitement about Web 2.0 as an unprecedented, novel, community-building space for experiencing, producing, and consuming leisure, particularly through social network sites. What is needed is a perspective that is invested in neither a utopian or dystopian posture but sees historical ...
Biology and Political Science
1st Edition
By Robert Blank, Samuel M. Hines Jnr.
September 08, 2015
This book demonstrates the increasing interest of some social scientists in the theories, research and findings of life sciences in building a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of politics. It discusses the development of biopolitics as an academic perspective within political science, ...
Information Communication Technology and Social Transformation: A Social and Historical Perspective
1st Edition
By Hugh F. Cline
September 08, 2015
This book argues that information communication technologies are not creating new forms of social structure, but rather altering long-standing institutions and amplifying existing trends of social change that have their origins in ancient times. Using a comparative historical perspective, it ...