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14%OFFGeoffrey C. Bowker - Boundary Objects and Beyond: Working with Leigh Star - 9780262528085 - V9780262528085
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Boundary Objects and Beyond: Working with Leigh Star

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Description for Boundary Objects and Beyond: Working with Leigh Star Paperback. Editor(s): Bowker, Geoffrey C.; Timmermans, Stefan; Clarke, Adele E.; Balka, Ellen. Series: Infrastructures. Num Pages: 560 pages, 26 b&w illus. BIC Classification: GP; HPK; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 178 x 23. .
The multifaceted work of the late Susan Leigh Star is explored through a selection of her writings and essays by friends and colleagues. Susan Leigh Star (1954-2010) was one of the most influential science studies scholars of the last several decades. In her work, Star highlighted the messy practices of discovering science, asking hard questions about the marginalizing as well as the liberating powers of science and technology. In the landmark work Sorting Things Out, Star and Geoffrey Bowker revealed the social and ethical histories that are deeply embedded in classification systems. Star's most celebrated concept was ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Infrastructures
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262528085
SKU
V9780262528085
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About Geoffrey C. Bowker
Geoffrey C. Bowker is Professor and Director of the Evoke Lab at the University of California, Irvine. He is the coauthor (with Susan Leigh Star) of Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences and the author of Memory Practices in the Sciences, both published by the MIT Press. Stefan Timmermans is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los ... Read more

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