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The Mangle in Practice: Science, Society, and Becoming
Pickering
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Description for The Mangle in Practice: Science, Society, and Becoming
Paperback. Offering an introduction to the mangle, this book presents empirical studies that demonstrate the mangle's applicability to topics as diverse as pig farming, Chinese medicine, economic theory and domestic-violence policing. Editor(s): Pickering, Andrew; Guzik, Keith. Series: Science & Cultural Theory. Num Pages: 320 pages, 3 photographs. BIC Classification: JH; PDR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 448.
In The Mangle of Practice (1995), the renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering argued for a reconceptualization of research practice as a “mangle,” an open-ended, evolutionary, and performative interplay of human and non-human agency. While Pickering’s ideas originated in science and technology studies, this collection aims to extend the mangle’s reach by exploring its application across a wide range of fields including history, philosophy, sociology, geography, environmental studies, literary theory, biophysics, and software engineering.
In The Mangle of Practice (1995), the renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering argued for a reconceptualization of research practice as a “mangle,” an open-ended, evolutionary, and performative interplay of human and non-human agency. While Pickering’s ideas originated in science and technology studies, this collection aims to extend the mangle’s reach by exploring its application across a wide range of fields including history, philosophy, sociology, geography, environmental studies, literary theory, biophysics, and software engineering.
The Mangle in Practice opens with a fresh introduction to the mangle by Pickering. Several contributors then present empirical studies that demonstrate the mangle’s applicability to topics ... Read more
Contributors: Lisa Asplen, Dawn Coppin, Adrian Franklin, Keith Guzik, Casper Bruun Jensen,Yiannis Koutalos, Brian Marick, Randi Markussen, Andrew Pickering, Volker Scheid, Esther-Mirjam Sent, Carol Steiner, Maxim Waldstein
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Science & Cultural Theory
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822343738
SKU
V9780822343738
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About Pickering
Andrew Pickering is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Exeter. He is the author of The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science and Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics and the editor of Science as Practice and Culture. Keith Guzik is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bloomfield College in ... Read more
Reviews for The Mangle in Practice: Science, Society, and Becoming
“Andrew Pickering is a major figure in the field of science studies. In the original, widely cited and widely admired but still controversial The Mangle of Practice, he developed a number of important concepts that are strongly resonant for many members of the current generation of scholars, researchers, and theorists in the social sciences and humanities. This new, very substantial, ... Read more